Ian Epps is a Sonic/Visual Artist, customizing his life and belongings, in Brooklyn, NY.
Ian Epps is interested in treating sound as units, much like building blocks. These blocks become pieces of information that synthesize space. Each block has a voice and sings, but together sounds out the warmth and infinitely complex nature of a composed environment.
1977 Born in Lakenheath, UK 1999 Alfred University, BFA since 2002 resident in Brooklyn, NY, USA
He has played performances alongside and in collaboration withRafael Toral, Ogurusu Norihide, Kenneth Kirschner. Mountains (Koen Holtkamp & Brendon Anderegg), Takeshi Mitsuhashi, Richard Devine, EVOL, Dave Gross and Liz Tonne, Richard Zvonar, Dan Walsh, Joe McPhee, Andrew Deutsch, and Pauline Oliveros. and collectively with Dan Walsh, and Jason Forrest aka Donna Summer under the name "the Computers".
selected discography 35 Mutant Seconds: based on Rafael Toral´s Creamy Burst CD - Remix | gos016 / karu:3 | August 2005 feat. Pita, Fonica, Sawako, Richard Chartier, John Kannenberg, Stapletape, Allto and Ent |www.grainofsound.com | www.baskaru.com | . Album cover photo by Ian Epps Memories of Sasaki san CD - Remix | PSA - 001 | May 2005 Flim, Alejandra & Aeron, Bexar Bexar, Mika Sasaki, Chris Rosenau, Greg Davis, Hans Appelqvist, Mika Sasaki, asuna, Yoonkee, Harald ”sack” Ziegler, un caddie renverse dans l’herbe, Patrik Torsson, Ian Epps, Steve Roden, Yuichiro Fujimoto | www.powershovelaudio.com | . spokenslightlysoft mp3 | on;(do) | February 2005 | 24:04 | www.ondomusic.com | . standingpresence mp3 | Addenda | April 2004 | 21:27 | www.seasonalbk.net | . Ian Epps finds... the4yearoldchild: Courtside- volume1 CD | som301 | 2003 "The4yearoldchild is a continuing series of audio-portraits, documenting a world through child's eyes. Ian Epps finds the4yearoldchild Courtside, entertains the idea of an identity of a child, constructed out of sound. Understanding that humans are complex filtering machines, Courtside is the4yearoldchild's experience of playing a game of lawn tennis. Developing a vocabulary of this activity, the child relies on memory, and an understanding of physics, weather conditions and human behavior". “Ian Epps has pointed the way down numerous witty and provocative pathways using thickly layered organizations of sound.”(THE WIRE) | www.softlmusic.com | . Audiophone CD | dceo002 | 2001 "Debut cd by video/audio artist Ian Epps. Epps creates a playful music out of manipulated sine waves and digital artifacts. For this genre of computer glitchery, Epps has a unique sense of phrasing and timing. He introduces charming musical hooks and bats them around and tears at them until they are lost in machine-like textures and atmospherics. Fragments of the original ideas then resurface throughout the disc's 86 tracks. This is a fun and promising debut work". | www.deadceo.com | . The Computers CD | CRD | 2002 first release by The Computers is actually a single recorded improv session between Dan Walsh (The 100 year old man), Ian Epps (finds... The 4 year old child) and Jason Forrest (Donna Summer). Recorded last fall in Atlanta, this is what happens when three sets of computers lock horns. | www.cockrockdisco.com | www.ianepps.com |
**Forthcoming . 7" | uframed recordings | 2006 chris forsyth (PSI), koen holtkamp (Mountains), ian epps, kenta nagai, annette krebs, and giuseppe ielasi | www.unframedrecordings.net |
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