Mark Templeton (electronic musician) explained

Mark Templeton
Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist
Origin:Edmonton, Alberta
Genre:Electronic, ambient, sound collage
Label:Anticipate Recordings, Staalplaat, Sweat Lodge Guru, Under The Spire

Mark Templeton (born 1976) is a Canadian experimental electronic artist. Templeton's works are released by New York City record label Anticipate Recordings.

Background

Templeton utilizes acoustic instruments, found sounds and sampled material to construct textured, collage-like electronic compositions[1] His style has been called 'glitchy',[2] but also 'painterly',[3] in an attempt to describe his deconstruction and crumbling of instruments' traditional voices.[4]

His works have been commissioned by organizations of contemporary dance,[5] film and audiovisual[6] disciplines. Collaborations with experimental filmmakers aAron Munson and Kyle Armstrong and sound artists Nicola Ratti and Ezekiel Honig have produced numerous works on various formats.

Templeton has performed at international festivals and alternative spaces such as MUTEK (Montreal),[7] Unsound Festival (Kraków),[8] send+receive: a festival of sound (Winnipeg),[9] Eat This Festival (Utrecht),[10] Galapagos (New York),[11] Latitude 53 (Edmonton)[12] and Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival (Montreal).[13]

Discography

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://vueweekly.com/article.php?id=5859 Not a Hummingbird was harmed in the making of Mark Templeton's debut album, Vue Magazine 14 March 2007. Issue 595.
  2. http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/2519/mark-templeton Cokemachineglow, Album Review 1 May 2007
  3. Web site: Aquarius Records, Album Review . 2008-11-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090106104800/http://www.aquariusrecords.org/cat/t6.html . 2009-01-06 . dead .
  4. http://www.emusic.com/album/Mark-Templeton-Standing-on-a-Hummingbird-MP3-Download/10994879.html Emusic, Album Review by Philip Sherburne June 2007
  5. http://asparagusgreen.ca/EPS_61/EPS_61_MZD.html "Ki", Mile Zero Dance. 10 April 2008
  6. http://www.artgalleryalberta.com/content/view/201/59/ "Edmonton: Explored" Edmonton Cultural Capital Commission 6 Set. 2008
  7. http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2007/06/17/if_you_missed_mutek.html "If You Missed MUTEK" CBC Radio2 Blog 17 June 2007
  8. http://unsound.pl/en/festival/program/artists/2008/show/35 Unsound Festival 22 Oct. 2008
  9. http://www.sendandreceive.org/sr-v11.html send+receive: a festival of sound Oct. 13-17, 2009
  10. http://www.eatthismedia.org/front_content.php?idcat=221&idart=280 Eat This Media 26 Oct. 2008
  11. http://www.galapagosartspace.com/archive021207.html Galapagos Art Space 15 Feb. 2007
  12. http://www.latitude53.org/files/visualeyez2005/visualeyez2005journalmay21.html Visualeyez 2005 online Journal 21 May 2005
  13. https://archive.today/20120716234419/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=18827 "Suoni Per il Popolo Festival Celebrates 8 Years!" All About Jazz 26 May 2008