Steel, Rubber, Mallet, Custom Hardware & Software, Speaker
Installed at Sullivan Galleries in Chicago, IL Spring 2010
ONLY TIME WILL TELL
Single produced for Dis Magazines’ TRANCEWar
Finished 4th out of 38 in the competition
Written, Produced & Recorded by Aaron David Ross, AKA DRJ
Vocals by Colin Self, Art by Tabor Robak.
eZEN GARDEN
eZen Garden, Spring 2011.
http://www.aarondavidross.com/eZenGarden.mov
(Right click, “save link as”)
A simple way to use mouse scrolling as a direct means of meditation.
INSTRUCTIONS
- Download File
- Open in Quicktime
- DO NOT PLAY
- Two finger scroll (laptop) or use a scrollwheel mouse (desktop) to scrub the video
- Rake the garden at the rate you choose.
Original music for Roland Juno 6 and Korg Wavestation as a tribute to the CSS web programming language.
Cascade 1
Cascade 2
Cascade 3
Recordings of Enya’s 1996 recording of the traditional Latin & Gaelic masterpiece Pax Deorum through an EMU Systems Modular.
Study and reinterpretation of Music of the Night from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 Broadway Musical The Phantom of the Opera.
Tracked Polyphony, EMU Systems Monophonic Modular synthesizer, Moog Vocoder
GATEKEEPER – GIZA
PRESS
Feature on Electronic Beats [03 22 10]
Feature in Anthem Magazine [03 02 11]
Album review on Pitchfork [01 10 11]
RISE Profile on Dazed & Confused [01 10 11]
Album review on Juno Plus [01 07 11]
D’eon ‘Serpent’ Remix on The Fader [01 06 11]
Giza Review on The Quietus [01 05 11]
Feature in INDIE Magazine [JAN 2011]
Giza review on MISHKA [12 24 10]
Zoned In on Altered Zones [12 17 10]
Best of 2010 Videos on XLR8R [12 16 10]
Full week of Video Premieres on 20JazzFunkGreats [12 06 10 – 12 11 10]
Feature in Loud and Quiet [NOV 2010]
Artist Profile on Altered Zones [12 6 10]
Tech feature on Dummy Magazine [12 03 10]
YouTube Mix onThe Quietus [12 03 10]
Interview for WOW Magazine [12 03 10]
Brenmar ‘Serpent’ Remix on Stereogum [11 21 10]
Feature on The Guardian Podcast [11 04 10]
Feature in New York Times [10 26 10]
Band of the day on Neu Magazine[10 12 10]
Gatekeeper “CHAINS” Video premiere [10 12 10] Read on:
NPR | Pitchfork | Gorilla VS Bear | Dummy | The Fader | XLR8R | Stereogum
Whitney Houston’s I Have Nothing played by the Shoutbox Conductor
Shoutbox Conductor is a program that generates the playback speed of any MIDI file by comment data taken from the song’s Last.fm’s ‘shoutbox’.
The comment text is converted into ASCII values and used as a series of millisecond delays between each beat in the MIDI file.
GATEKEEPER – STORM COLUMN
“STORM COLUMN” video by Thunder Horse Video in collaboration with Gatekeeper, 2010.
Available now on VHS.
GATEKEEPER – SERPENT
“SERPENT” video by Thunder Horse Video in collaboration with Gatekeeper, 2010.
Available now on VHS.
GATEKEEPER – CHAINS
“CHAINS” video by Thunder Horse Video in collaboration with Gatekeeper, 2010.
Available now on VHS.
DIGITAL FLESH
Sound provided for the Beijing edition of Radical Friend‘s Digital Flesh installation, via The Creators Project.
Collaboration with Matthew Arkell, Gatekeeper.
View the online version:
http://digitalflesh.thecreatorsproject.com/
More information available here.
GATEKEEPER – ORACLE
GATEKEEPER “Oracle” AMV, 2010
Video 3 of 6 directed by Thunder Horse Video
GATEKEEPER – GIZA VHS
Thunder Horse Home Video presents “GIZA: the HDvhs Experience”
Featuring six Videos from GATEKEEPER’s new album “GIZA” out on Merok Records.
Archival VHS w/ Laser Engraved Face & Rhino-Skin Box & Double-Sided Poster. Limited to 100 copies worldwide.
“Salvations” by Gatekeeper, installed at Scott Projects Winter 2008.
NIGHT GALLERY – CONSTANT STRUGGLE
NIGHT GALLERY’s CONSTANT STRUGGLE, Released Summer 2010 on Rainbow Body Records.
PRESS
The Neverending Story [No Fear of Pop | DU | 07 19 10]
Night Gallery [Gorilla VS Bear | TX | 07 14 10]
Constant Struggle Review [Mishka | NYC | 07 11 10]
“Constant Struggle” MP3 [FADER | US | 07 07 10]
Night Gallery [NEU Magazine | UK | 07 07 10]
Night Gallery takes us back in time [VICE | UK | 07 07 10]
Mary Bell [Don’t Die Wondering | UK | 01 10 10]
Good Evening and Welcome to the Night Gallery [VICE | UK | 11 19 10]
Pure Moods
pureMood, Spring 2008.
Original and found footage, Original score.
GATEKEEPER – OPTIMUS MAXIMUS
GATEKEEPER’s OPTIMUS MAXIMUS, Released Fall 2009 on Kompakt subsidiary Fright Records.
PRESS
Moods Conducive to Dying and Dancing [New York Times | US | 01 07 10]
Review: Optimus Maximus [Mishka Bloglin | US | 01 04 10]
Listening Station: GK [Self Titled | US | 01 04 10]
Best of 2009 [Skulltheft | US | 12 10 09]
Optimus Maximus Review [Resident Advisor | UK | 11 03 09]
Gatekeeper’s Choice [Vice Magzine | US | 10 30 09]
Fact Mix 96- Gatekeeper [Fact Magazine | UK | 10 30 09]
Dance Macabre [Chicago Reader | US | 10 15 09]
God’s Payback [20 Jazz Funk Greats | UK | 10 05 09]
F news profile/interview [F News | US | 10 04 09]
DYNAMIC ASCENTION
Dynamic Ascension (Spring, 2009) is a karaoke interface developed to provide an infinite stream of algorithmically generated guided meditations.