Mark Templeton (electronic artist)
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Mark Templeton is a Canadian experimental
electronic artist. Templeton's works are released by New York City record label Anticipate Recordings
.
and acoustic
instruments such as the guitar, banjo and accordion to compose ambient electronic music
. His style has been called 'glitchy
', but also 'painterly
', in an attempt to describe his deconstruction and crumbling of instruments' traditional voices.
Templeton's works have been commissioned by organizations of contemporary dance, film and audiovisual disciplines. His live performances have at times been accompanied by Edmonton-based experimental filmmaker aAron Munson’s visuals. This ongoing collaboration between the two Alberta
-born Canadian artists resulted in the 2008 production of M. Templeton & aA. Munson: Acre Loss CD and DVD.
Templeton has performed at international festivals and alternative spaces such as MUTEK
(Montreal), Unsound Festival
(Kraków), send+receive: a festival of sound (Winnipeg), Eat This Festival (Utrecht), Galapagos (New York), Latitude 53 (Edmonton) and Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival (Montreal).
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
electronic artist. Templeton's works are released by New York City record label Anticipate Recordings
Anticipate Recordings
Anticipate Recordings is an independent record label based in Manhattan founded by electronic music producer/performer Ezekiel Honig. Anticipate combines elements of electro-acoustics, ambient, slow motion techno and found house with traces of filtered influences ranging from jazz, post rock,...
.
Background
Templeton utilizes a background in bluegrass musicBluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...
and acoustic
Acoustic music
Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...
instruments such as the guitar, banjo and accordion to compose ambient electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
. His style has been called 'glitchy
Glitch (music)
Glitch is a term used to describe a genre of electronic music that emerged in the mid to late 1990s. The glitch aesthetic is characterized by a deliberate use of glitch based sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted disturbances reducing the overall sound quality and are thus...
', but also 'painterly
Painterly
Painterliness is a translation of the German term , a word popularized by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin in order to help focus, enrich and standardize the terms being used by art historians of his time to characterize works of art...
', in an attempt to describe his deconstruction and crumbling of instruments' traditional voices.
Templeton's works have been commissioned by organizations of contemporary dance, film and audiovisual disciplines. His live performances have at times been accompanied by Edmonton-based experimental filmmaker aAron Munson’s visuals. This ongoing collaboration between the two Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
-born Canadian artists resulted in the 2008 production of M. Templeton & aA. Munson: Acre Loss CD and DVD.
Templeton has performed at international festivals and alternative spaces such as MUTEK
Mutek
Founded in 2000, MUTEK is an international festival organization dedicated to the promotion of electronic music and the digital arts. Its central platform is an annual five-day event in Montreal that takes place in late May and early June...
(Montreal), Unsound Festival
Unsound festival
Unsound Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Kraków, Poland, dealing with evolving and mutating forms of music, as well as related visual arts....
(Kraków), send+receive: a festival of sound (Winnipeg), Eat This Festival (Utrecht), Galapagos (New York), Latitude 53 (Edmonton) and Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival (Montreal).
Discography
- (2005) Fields Awake CD+DVD (Independent)
- (2005) Frail as Breath EPFrail as BreathFrail as Breath is an independently released solo EP by Canadian electronic artist Mark Templeton. The album was re-released in connection with net label Robotopera in 2005.-Track listing:#"Not Alone Anymore" – 4:13#"Continue Later" – 2:57...
(Independent/Robotopera) - (2007) Standing on a HummingbirdStanding on a HummingbirdStanding on a Hummingbird is Mark Templeton's first full-length album, released February 2007. The album has the distinction of being the inaugural release on the New York ambient electronic label Anticipate Recordings.-Track listing:...
(Anticipate Recordings) - (2009) Acre Loss CD+DVDAcre LossAcre Loss is a collaboration project between electronic musician Mark Templeton and filmmaker aAron Munson. Released in 2009 by Anticipate Recordings, Acre Loss explores the artists' feelings of attachment to the land from which they came and will leave behind. This is a CD/DVD set with ten musical...
(Anticipate Recordings) - (2009) InlandInland (album)Inland follows up Standing on a Hummingbird as Mark Templeton's second full-length solo album. Inland was released May 11, 2009, by the electronic music label Anticipate Recordings hailing out of New York City.-Track listing:#"At Your Feet" – 3:52...
(Anticipate Recordings) - (2009) Sea Point 12" vinylSea Point (album)Sea Point is a limited edition 12" vinyl released by Anticipate Recordings that includes three tracks from Mark Templeton's Inland release along with three additional tracks. The 12" vinyl was released on August 17, 2009.-Track listing:...
(Anticipate Recordings)