moby, nine inch nails, grandaddy, M83, múm, tweaker, bjork, goldfrapp, garbage, sigur ros, radiohead, the album leaf, tears for fears, ken andrews, the echoing green, the moody blues, AIR, the talking heads, depeche mode, Akira Yamaoka, Electric Light Orchestra, The Alan Parsons Project, Marylin Manson, Cocteau Twins, Harold Budd, This Mortal Coil, Friedrich Nietzsche
Sounds Like
moby, nine inch nails, sigur ros, Goldfrapp, tweaker, bjork, M83, Akira Yamaoka, AIR, the album leaf
Aetherius is the performance name of independent electronica artist Rab Townsend, who hails from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has self-produced more than four albums worth of original material since 2001. His music combines stylistic elements of dark ambient, industrial rock, and downtempo, as well as film music, with an emphasis on melancholy moods and spacey atmospheres.
History
Aetherius began making music at the age of 14 using the name Dj_StarChild. Through the OverClocked ReMix community, he gained the tools and information he’d need to produce his own music.
This led to the composition and production of two albums’ worth of piano driven ambient dance music entitled ‘Multi-Coloured Breakfast’ and ‘Empty Box of Happiness,’ the latter of which exposing a more experimental edge. By 2004, after having changed his alias to “Aetherius,” allowing for a change of influence and style, he composed and produced a third album entitled ‘The Inevitability of Pain (and the stupidity of those who don’t expect it)’ which was a more structured, yet still experimental collection of piano driven ambient songs. From 2005 to 2006, He worked on his fourth album of original music, which is titled “An Experiment in Orbital Displacement.” It showcases his affinity for found-sound layering, and guitar experimentation, and a development of his piano style into a more delicate, dreamlike atmosphere. Additional production requirements and artistic changes of direction led to the addition of an all new song and plans to remaster older tracks from the album in 2009. Throughout later 2007, Rab began working on an EP entitled ‘FallPast EP’, named for a song written shortly after the completion of the previous album. The EP is still a work in progress.
In 2009, Aetherius produced three new songs. Two of which were used in conjunction with some older tracks as backing music for modern dance performances, while the third song was written as score for a short film.
Aetherius is currently working on remastering the AEiOD tracks, while writing and recording demos to be used in a future release.
Modern dance performance choreographed to "We lost our lives in the snow" by Aetherius.
Music: Aetherius
Choreography: Jennifer Lee
Lighting Design: Roberto Pires
Performers: Krista Antonio, Erin Man, Lindsey Runhart, Michelle Zetts
Video edited by Rab Townsend
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