Noisegate

Noisegate is a group of artists dedicated to the explorationof sound as an artistic medium.

Since 1995, Noisegate have been a staple of the U.S. experimental musicand sound-art scenes, constantly touring, recording and promoting otherexperimental artists. Their live performances are usually collaborationswith experimental filmmakers, which create rich, immersive multi-mediaenvironments.

In addition to their work in sound, Noisegate members Trevor Paglen,Chris Fitzpatrick, and Nicolas Lampert are practicing visual and installationartists

Noisegate began in 1995, when Trevor Paglen, Nicolas Lampertand Tae K Kim began to experiment with using timbre as a basis for amusical language. In November of 1995, Excavation Day was released.A tape-only release, limited to 500 copies, this is an early documentof our development.

Barren Earth was released in the summer of 1996. At this point, Noisegate'smusical language had expanded to include a much wider range of textures,all of which were composed into one another. An early version of 'SolarEclipse' was on this release.

In the fall of 1996, Noisegate embarked on their first major tour ofthe US, with filmmaker Laura Klein. Upon their return, Chris Fitzpatrickwas enlisted to run sampler. The new lineup began work on the musicwhich became the Towers Are Burning LP, released in 1998 by the OneHundred Years of Solitude label. After several tours supporting theLP, it was decided to record two more tracks, and release all four onTumult and Legion as the Towers Are Burning CD.

After more touring, Chris Fitzpatrick and Trevor Paglen began workon Suspended Animation, where the new emphasis of the compositions werefluidity and subtlety. Suspended Animation was released in May 2000,and supported in the Summer of 2000 with a lengthy multimedia tour ofthe U.S., accompanied by filmmaker, Jon Frechette.

As We Were Walking was a recorded version of the interpretations ofSuspended Animation that Noisegate performed on their U.S. tour, andwas released exclusively in Europe in December of 2001. In January of2001, Noisegate toured Europe in support of As We Were Walking. Wherein the past, Noisegate tours have created rich, immersive, multimediaenvironments, for this tour, the opposite was achieved. The performancesoccurred in absolute darkness with the performers unseen, disarmingrather than facilitating spectacle.

Noisegate members Chris Fitzpatrick and Trevor Paglen currently liveand work in the California Bay Area and are dedicated to the explorationof sound as an artistic medium.