about
about
bio:
Brendan Aanes is a sound and video artist working with the synaesthetic possibilities of media technology to transform and represent the world into unexpected dimensions. Recent work has focused mostly on interactive video-based installations, utilizing video tracking to examine such phenomena as the moving human eye and the small variations in handwritten text. Brendan has also composed music for award-winning modern dance performances, and designed lighting and sound for theatrical performances of varying genres. In the past, Brendan has performed as a violinist in premieres of compositions of various genres, as well as his own solo sets which utilize a handmade violin extended with a set of accelerometer motion sensors. Brendan holds an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College in Oakland, where he worked with James Fei, Chris Brown, Pauline Oliveros, and others. current interest include: synaesthesia, dreams, circuits, semi-conscious electromechanical systems (computers), sonification as translation, noise, feedback, emergent and liminal phenomena.
education:
Mills College: MFA, Electronic Music and Recording, 2009
Western Washington University: BMus, Composition, 2007
teachers, collaborators, friends:
Pamela Kuntz
Chuck Johnson
contact: baanes at gmail dot com