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