STRAIPH
BIOGRAPHY:
Solo musician Stu, formely of The
Chthonians, has released several experimental tracks on various labels around
the world, including Menth De Chat (a Brazilian label who have released partial
amounts of Straiphs material online. The project, entitled "Rid Me of Rigor
mortis" explores Straiph's "tension between art and science, utilizing
raw vocal material transmutations accumulated entirely of scientists talking freely
about their chosen expertise of interest, manipulated and overlayed to a state
where
the logic of the spoken content is not really the subject anymore"), Tilt
(Greece), Isolated Society
(Spain), BT Recordings & V/VM
(both UK), Connexion
Bizarre (Portugal), 3 Pattes
(France), Kolorform
Records (A song called "Yakk!" described as "a feast of vocal
transmutations by Straiph, featuring Karen Stewart, Dr Hazel Mcleod, Straiph and
Professor Vincente Polo, was released on kolorform Records of Seattle), Quotidian
Assemblages, Between Existence
& Various Manipulations (all USA) & Smell The Stench (Australia). 2005
saw Straiph being chosen as one of the artists for the Vox
Novus project, as well as working with ex-Waterboy Colin Blakey in Orchestra
Macaroon. The year also saw Straiph contribute tracks to Cultured,
the Scottish digital arts magazine, who utilized two audio signature composition
tunes for their October issue. One of the tunes composed has the pathologist Dr
Bruce Michie "playing his saxophone to which it's been multi- layered in
the fashion of sweet manipulation".
WEBSITE:
http://www.paximatmultimag.co.uk