Cassiel is the pseudonym for London, UK-based composer, performer, software architect and media artist Nick Rothwell. Cassiel projects generally involve collaboration with internationally-renowned choreographers and contemporary dance companies, such as Laurie Booth, Ballett Frankfurt, Russell Maliphant, Lea Anderson, Aydın Teker (İstanbul) and Random Dance Company (Sadler’s Wells).
Cassiel plays live sets of pulse-based electronica utilising a variety of control surfaces and custom-designed software performance systems, with a musical style which shifts from Berlin-school to soothing ambient, tribal or glitch, but always with imaginative timbral design and strong harmonic structures. Cassiel has also composed commercially for television, radio and outdoor installations.
Cassiel has worked at STEIM (Amsterdam), CAMAC (Paris), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Techne (İstanbul), Zodiak (Helsinki) and CIANT (Prague). He is a regular performer at the Different Skies festival (Arcosanti, Arizona) and is currently working with dance production company Body>Data>Space in London, Prague, Dresden and Paris.
The 2nd release on Needlesoup is out now! Kufr EP is by our long-time favourite The Rebel. Masterminded by Ben Wallers of the Country Teasers, it's gem of ingenious, irreverent, song-writing originality, and you can get a taste on our myspace page. In keeping with Needlesoup's ethos of treating every release as a work of art, the sleeves are handprinted on watercolour paper & as special as the music itself. To order/for more info see our website:
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Peut-être. I was trying hard to avoid MyMania, but nobody visits private web sites anymore (when were you last at castine.de?). The ice was finally broken when my cousin invited me to FB. Ironically, one of the thousand straws that broke this camel's MySp back was a link from http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=730871026, immediately under the ReverbNation panel.
I missed you at Different Skies this year. It was fab. I hope that you were just as busy and productive as we were.
Thanks for asking to be friends. Be sure to listen every Thursday at 11:04 pm Eastern US Timezone / GMT-5 .... IF you're up that early in the UK morning! ;-)
Cheers,
Bill
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enjoyed your tracks here so much that I setup a myspace account just so that I may leave a comment here! My wee review is at http://exemplaryvisions.com/2007/07/09/the-body-as-source/ .
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