Resonance FM composer and noise prankster Dan Wilson walked away from this year’s Arts Foundation awards as the winner in the electronic composition category. Asked what he would do with his prize money, he revealed that it would be used to build an improved version of “Corrosion Suite”, an electromagnetic composition in which the sound of rusted and rusting materials would form the basis of a new soundscape… or whatever.
The truth is I hardly understood because I was far too excited to see him win to pay too much attention to the details.
I wonder if supporting your favourite conceptual artist is something like supporting a football team. You get to follow their ups & downs, and you can be sure that their lives are more painful or ecstatic than your own.
My Dan Wilson audio archive can be found at http://epistaxis.stodge.org.
So that is what he looks like. Only ever heard him, photos of him are are rare.
btw i left a shoutbox comment in your Last.fm page if you’re interested.
There is no shortage of Dan Wilson photos.. he is nowhere near as reclusive as he pretends to be.
My searchy skills must be lacking. Dan Wilson also seems to be a Minneapolis Baseball player, a photographer, and someone else on myspace.
I think my facourite Hellebore show (Shew) is perhaps the final one, the part with
: An experiment into the acoustic properties of the town’s railings. One thing (the experiment) turns into something else.
I’m always trying to figure out how much of this Hellebore Shew Dan Wilson is a persona or an exaggeration of parts of himself, or what… but it’s all very interesting.