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Artist
The Airelectric
9+ albums
violincomposerinstrumentalvirtuossoUSA
about
Karl Pestka, a composer, video artist, and violinist out of East Lansing, Michigan, strives to create a pointedly visual kind of music. His quadridextrous performances as The Airelectric, however- in which he manipulates live electronics with his toes, while both hands engage the electric violin- are not the only draw for the eye. It is also the narrative of the sound itself, like the cinematic music of Clint Mansell or Philip Glass, which plants the imagination in a fertile bed of orchestral layers, sown with evolving, danceable beats. Live performances often encompass improvised video, generated from toe-operated homebrewed software, or spun from collaborations with Airelectric VJs Colleen Lynne Cox and Andrea Steves. Other collusions include the prog rock quintet Sexual Pantalones, pop-chamberbeats wunderkind Ólafur Arnalds, the Laswellian Icelandic supergroup Steintryggur, string quartet-gamelan Amiina and Kippi as well as the Oberlin-based new media/video ensemble The Night, with whom he has toured extensively through East Coast art galleries and noise collectives. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
