Steve Bates is an artist and musician. Through his work he listens to thresholds, boundaries and borders, points of contact and conflict. Information and signal feed back onto themselves creating new situations and events. Sometimes unpredictable and chaotic, at other times this same feedback is used as a way to provide stability. The history of ideas, experiences, and materials are an influence on his work and often lead to a research-heavy path resulting in suites of work around a theme. Recent topics have included the history of barbed wire, the night as a space of freedom and libidinal desire, feedback as it occurs in sound and video art, politics, economics, and biology, pathological and non-pathological auditory hallucination and most recently, the sound of Hell. Or hells. The sonic is the starting point for his projects which are evocations of communication networks and systems, or expressions of spatial and temporal experience. He frequently works with material in situ and in relation to their sites while at the same time recognizing the many complexities involved in working this way. He releases music both solo and collaboratively, often through his own small scale publishing and curatorial project, The Dim Coast, which he runs with artist, jake moore. His work has been performed and exhibited in Canada, the USA, Europe, Chile and Senegal. He works in the field, on the air, in museological/gallery and performance contexts. These shifting territories reflect the content of his practice.
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The Dim Coast
The Dim Coast Bandcamp
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Constellation Records Artist Page
All The Things That Happen