{"title":"Steve Bates","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"all-the-things-that-happen","title":"All The Things That Happen","description":"\u003cp\u003eSteve Bates is an artist and musician known for his work with post-rock ensemble Black Seas Ensemble, duos with Timothy Herzog and Sophie Trudeau of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, amongst others, as well as a series of digital-only sonic explorations on his own label, The Dim Coast. \u003ci\u003eAll The Things That Happen\u003c\/i\u003e is his first full-length album for Constellation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor this album, Bates pursued a more stripped down exploration of the noisier terrain of the cheap timbre and tonality of the much-loved Casio SK-1 keyboard sampler. These sounds were fed through a variety of electronics, effects, amps, cassettes recorders to shift into their current form heard on these tracks. Steve notes that all the tracks started off as ambient, \"but I always kept reaching for more texture and noise.\" Getting reacquainted with the Casio SK-1 was the initial focus on developing the music here. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProcessed and manipulated during the recording and mixing stages, these initial SK-1 sessions became the foundation of this body of music. Working within the rich world of experimental electronics, these tracks have a core melodicism to them and maybe even a melancholy, as distortion and overtones saturate and spray the music in various directions, while feeling whole and integrated as a body of sound. A fixture of Winnipeg's burgeoning anarcho-punk and social justice community in the 80s-90s, Bates played in hardcore and indie rock bands (XOXO, Bulletproof Nothing) while contemporaneously continuing to fiddle obsessively with the shortwave radio his father bought him as a child — sensibilities that continue to meld and inform his sound work to this day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBates founded the Send + Receive Festival in 1998, a crucial development in putting Winnipeg on the map for avant music and experimental sound art, which he helmed for seven years. Moving to Tiohti:áke\/Montréal in 2005 he took on the Sound Coordinator position at Hexagram (Concordia University), released solo and duo work on ORAL_records and two albums with his Black Seas Ensemble on The Dim Coast, while pursuing myriad other 2 ongoing audio research, installation and collaborative projects. His exhibition and site-specific works have been presented throughout North America and Europe, Chile and Senegal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRIYL: William Basinski, Wolf Eyes, Gas, Tim Hecker, Emeralds, Yellow Swans, Flying Saucer Attack. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constellation","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50505447080267,"sku":"1164199","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50505449013579,"sku":"1164200","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4142f364-3be2-44e2-bd57-fefbe6617f25_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727814489"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/steve-bates.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}