Doug Van Nort
Doug Van Nort is an experimental musician whose work is dedicated to the creation of immersive and visceral sonic experiences, and to personal and collective creative expression through composition, free improvisation and generally electro-acoustic means of production. His instruments are custom-built systems that draw on concepts ranging from spectral re-synthesis to evolutionary processes and machine listening algorithms, while his source materials include any and all sounds discovered through attentive listening to the world.
Van Nort has presented internationally on a variety of projects that span telematic music, compositions for laptop ensemble, improvisations in various acoustic/electronic settings, multi-channel electroacoustic pieces and sonic installations. He often performs with his custom GREIS software designed for on-the-fly spectral and textural sound transformations. Van Nort is a member of the trio Triple Point with Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Braasch, where his focus lies in improvised transformation of the sounds arising from his acoustic partners.
In addition to Zeromoon, recordings of Van Nort's music can be found on Deep Listening and Pogus among other experimental music labels, and his writing has recently appeared in places such as Organised Sound and the Leonardo Music Journal. He has performed at venues ranging from the [sat] in Montreal, Casa da Musica in Porto, Betong in Oslo, The Red Room in Baltimore, The Guelph Jazz Festival, Roulette, Harvestworks, the Miller Theatre, Issue Project Room and the Stone in NYC, at Town Hall (NYC) on intonarumori as part of the Performa futurist biennial, and at EMPAC in Troy, NY. His compositional work has been featured in contexts as disparate as the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) and New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) to the Flea theatre's "music with a view" series and the NYC electroacoustic music festival at Elebash Hall. He has recently collaborated with a number of interesting artists, including Oliveros, Braasch, Francisco López, Stuart Dempster, Chris Chafe, Al Margolis, Ben Miller, Anne Bourne, and Judy Dunaway among many others.