A Quiet Presence (down the hallway):
This album was created from field recordings I captured with my Zoom H4N while admitted to
the hospital for 2 months. The sounds were captured with contact microphones, dynamic
microphones and the Zoom H4N built in microphones. It was a very long 2 months and
recording these sounds kept me going. As such this piece, ’A Quiet Presence (down the
hallway), is a very personal piece.
Bio:
existent/nonexistent is a sound artist/experimental musician, audio engineer and photographer
based out of Canada. existent/nonexistent creates his pieces at his studio, Abattoir Studios, in
Victoria, BC, Canada.
existent/nonexistent uses a wide variety of synthesizers, organs/keyboards, samplers, found
sounds, field recordings, feedback, contact microphone noise box, prepared guitar, electric
guitar and bass, piano and theremin in his musical pieces.
existent/nonexistent transcends all musical genres from: sound art, sound collage, musique
concrete, experimental, electro-acoustic, noise, noise rock, lowercase, drone/ambient,
minimalism…whatever he feels on that day.
Music can be found at:
toboggun.bandcamp.com/album/behind-the-directors-mask
owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/existent-nonexistent-my-love-for-you-is-only-pataphysical
sickheadrec.bandcamp.com/album/a-romantic-walk-with-entropy
arrhythniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/anr20-existent-nonexistent-corrosion-ep
misanthropicvendetta.bandcamp.com/album/missing
staticritualrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pain-is-inevitable
owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/on016-friendly-attempt-murder
arrhythniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/anr11-the-splitsville-project-iii-existent-nonexistent-deergarden
ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/track/a-trail-of-toenail-clippings
existentnonexistent.bandcamp.com/releases
Photographs can be found at:
www.instagram.com/existent_nonexistent/
GoH-463: existent/nonexistent - A Quiet Presence (down the hallway)
A singular, complex industrial drone piece filled with variety of field-recorded sounds. A deeply disturbing and personal work from Canadian artist. Highest recommendation!
released December 1, 2022