Biography
Robert Crouch works as an artist, musician, and curator from his Los Angeles base, producing output that spans performance, sculpture, installations, and recordings. His sonic palette extends across expansive, vaporous drones and more concentrated, weighty layers, frequently merging environmental captures with synthesizers and digital manipulation. Through his roles as director or associate director at VOLUME and LACE, he has collaborated with figures including William Basinski, Richard Chartier, Tim Hecker, Steve Roden, and Christopher Willits, among numerous additional practitioners. On the Untitled & After label he has issued experimental techno both under his own name and as half of the Land Sound duo alongside Marc Kate, as well as in joint projects with Morgan Packard. Dragon's Eye put out his first album-length effort, An Occupied Space, during 2011. The Pasadena Arts Council commissioned Fata Morgana, his partnership with Yann Novak—the founder of Dragon's Eye—for the 2011 AxS Festival; Murmur Records in Japan later issued the work on compact disc in 2012. Dragon's Eye followed with Organs in 2015, an album constructed from the audio of a damaged church organ. Chartier's Line label released the subsequent album, A Gradual Accumulation of Ideas Becomes Truth, in 2016; although it drew on modular synthesizer sources, the record diverged markedly from typical examples in that field. Touch, the British experimental music organization, issued Sublunar in 2017 as Crouch's debut project for the imprint.
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