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Artist
david lee myers
12+ albums
experimentalambientAvant-Gardenoisemusique concrete
about
David Lee Myers (b. 24 February 1949) is a sound and visual artist who has lived and worked in New York City since 1977. Pulsewidth serves as the platform for his activities in the arts, particularly sound projects, a number of which are released under the Pulsewidth record label. From 1987 through 1993, sound projects were developed under the name Arcane Device. Many of these long-unavailable recordings may be found here. Most of what appears on this site stems from an enthusiasm for electronics and the world of electrons as it relates to the realm of sound and vision. After a fine arts education and many years in music, in 1987 Myers' accidental discovery of "Feedback Music" led to a new appreciation of the unseen forces underlying electronic music, and eventually saw expression in visual art as well. Visual interpretations of these forces are increasingly a focus of his work. "Though I have produced visual art since the mid 1960's and my formal education lies there, my most concentrated efforts to date have been in the field of sound art. Since 1987, I have been developing specialized circuitry and electronic systems for the production of my signature 'Feedback Music', whose original sounds claim unique sources. The outputs of electronic devices - particularly those intended to create a modification of some kind to an audio signal, such as time delays - are fed, via custom-built mixers, to their own inputs. In this way, these devices never receive signals from the 'outs
