iSAD performance at MUSLAB International Electroacoustic Music Exhibition

I’m excited to announce that my 2021 video music work, entitled iSAD has been selected to be part of the 2024 edition of the MUSLAB International Electroacoustic Music Exhibition.

MUSLAB - AFTER is an exhibition that brings together a careful selection of sound art, video art and photographic works, all focused on the exploration of cultural identities and the analysis of the relationship between local social processes and globalization. This project offers a look into the future of the planetary scenario, where art becomes an oracle capable of predicting the challenges and opportunities of the 22nd century and beyond, reflecting on such urgent issues as the state of society, ecology and other aspects of the planet.

Check out iSAD below.

Steven Webb
LithoPhone - New Installation Work!

The LithoPhone Project began out of a desire of mine to extend my practice to the art of instrument building and sound installations, attempting to create unique sonic textures through unusual and novel uses of existing technologies paired with creative instrument designs. The LithoPhone is a custom-built sound box, which combines an electrical motor, stylus, and amplification chamber to produce and enhance the natural resonances and harmonics found in stones. The box is amplified through use of a contact microphone, with the captured audio being processed through an Ableton Live patch.

Check out the first movement below!

Steven Webb
Gen(Self) New video music work!

As a millennial, I was among the first generation to grow up fully online and in the digital age. As I entered my teens and early adult years, it continued to grow as a source of news, entertainment, knowledge, and a place community — its impact growing on my life and others over time. While this brought with it countless benefits, exposing my generation to new ideas and creating relationships with people around the world, it has, especially in recent years, become more and more of a detriment to my own and others’ mental health, and impacting our outlook on the future of our species.

Gen(Self) is a self-portrait. Following in the tradition of many visual artists, this self-portrait examines my personal experiences and reactions to these changes in society brought about by rapid technological change. After being online for two and half decades, I’ve seen the changes occurring in real time, and it has begun to take its toll on me.

Check out Gen(Self) below!

Steven Webb
Performance of (co)Axial at the Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2024

My video music piece (co)Axial (2021) was performed at this year’s Seoul International Computer Music Festival. The Seoul International Computer Music Festival is a sound art performance that combines various media such as musical instruments, electronic sounds, videos, and new media, and is held every fall as a differentiated performance that shows new ways and possibilities of harmonizing music and technology. As Asia's first computer music festival, it has grown into a music festival that leads the global trend of computer music with the presentation of high-quality works by active artists at home and abroad until its 31st anniversary this year.

Check out (co)Axial below!

Steven Webb
Lost Tapes Vol. 1 - Time Capsule Composition

Lost Tapes Vol. 1 is the first in a series of cassette tape-based compositions to be released over the next five years. As we run out of time to address the worst of the climate crisis and limit nuclear proliferation, an apocalyptic future becomes more of an inevitable reality with each passing day.

Lost Tapes is a collection of environmental soundscapes, sonified image data, electromagnetic distortion and snippets of my own compositions, combined to form an auditory collage of a musical life before the collapse.

After the recording of the video performance of the tape piece, this tape was buried in a time capsule in an undisclosed location in the city of Tkarón:to. Each volume in the tape series over the next decade (1 every 2 years), will be buried in similar capsules across the Greater Tkarón:to Area. My hope is that future generations that potentially survive the oncoming collapse will find these tapes, decode the auditory warnings and messages from the old world, and experience extinct acoustic signatures from a long-gone era of human civilization.

Steven Webb
Deflexion, Summers & A New Era
 

I've spent the last decade working as a contemporary music composer, sound artist and producer. The launch of Deflexion and the name, Summers, marks a new chapter for me as an artist, as I branch out in genre from my existing background in contemporary classical music.

Deflexion is:

  • An 8-track lo-fi and synth-filled EP that combines dreampop and datawave

  • Created using warm analogue synthesizers and vintage drum machines

  • Influenced by 1980s-1990s electronic music and the 2010s vaporwave movement

  • Inspired by retro game soundtracks like Final Fantasy 8 and Donkey Kong Country

  • Comprised of sonic landscapes to listen to while you drive, browse online, vibe through a gaming session, and more!

I've already been working hard on the tracks, and am so excited to share with you all this important new period of my artistic career.

Wondering how it sounds? Listen now to an early (unmixed) sample of a track from the album! I have 7 more tracks just like this one that are already in the late production and early mixing phases.

Your support will help take us beyond the completed mixes and make the full album a reality. Not only will you add this album to your own collection, your support will help fund emerging independent musicians, producers and audio engineers collaborating on this project.

Support the IndieGogo Campaign here!

 
Steven Webb