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edgeeffect
Musician
edgeeffect
Style: Experimental
Joined: 24 August 2006
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I've been producing electronic music and sonic arts under the name Edge Effect for more years than I'm prepared to count. Since 2003, I have also been working in the field of still and moving imagery. I have performed live sound tracks to my video/photographic material at various events in London, Bristol, Burton on Trent & Swindon I've also contributed to various gallery exhibitions in Swindon.

Since the widespread application of electronics in music, the music that has been produced has become something that producers painstakingly create in a piecemeal fashion in private, without ever entering into a direct dialogue with their audience. As much as possible, I want to return to the "pure" state of live performance, to create true interaction between myself, my work & the audience.

Even in this "golden age" of music, there was a stage in the process where the composer worked on a score in private. This is no different to my vision of how electronic music is created: Edge Effect is partly improvised, but pre-preparation also plays an important part.

Im trying to blend high-art sensibilities with Punk Rock's do-it-yourself ethic. Rather than employing the very latest technology, I use whatever equipment I can obtain with my limited resources, this gives my work something of a "rough-edge" that I think I prefer to the highly polished work of other artists.

My methods of creating electronic music are a blending of avant garde & more traditional techniques. I reject the current academic philosophy of seeking to control every aspect of timbre, instead I'm more of a "synthesiser hacker", allowing sounds to grow organically by a process of improvised adjustment of parameters. I tend to employ conventional scales, chords, keys, & modes but my work tends to be devoid of rhythm & melody, focusing instead on evolving, dark-ambient textures. It's almost as though I'm painting pictures with sound: each piece is a window into an imagined landscape, hanging frozen in time. Originally, Edge Effect grew out of my involvement with Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, & as such it seeks to act as a gateway from the limits of everyday experience into a magical inner world where dreams can be made real.

I find myself rather disappointed by a great deal of the digital art that I encounter. To me, it tends to concentrate far too much on the idea of championing the medium without enough concern for any message, content or feeling. Its always been an aim of mine to produce work that reverses this trend. To create, perhaps, a digital-romanticism.

Commercially, I work as a web designer, a producer of audiovisual material, and a consultant to other artists and groups.

Formation Date: 01 April 1989
Label Type: Unsigned
Band Members: Andy Preston
Influences: BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Brian Eno, DiN artists, Conrad Schnitzler, Vidna Obmana, Karina ESP, Dahlia's Tear, Early Tangerine Dream, Chris Carter.
Sounds Like: Minimal drones with bursts of nearly-melodic bursts of noise. Occasional brief excursions into rhythm. Very slow, low and spooky. (Well, I hope)
City: Swindon
Hometown: Devizes
Country: United Kingdom
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The amazing Ohne Dich video with the translation subtitled
 
 
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"Тихо как... Это самое тихое место на свете. Вы потом сами увидите....   more
 
 
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A montage of clips from the film "Stalker" put to "In the...   more
 
 
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"Now, King Crimson is OK - nothing against it at all... but... this is ju..."   more
 
 
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The greates String ever produced on a Synthesizer...fantastic work from ...   more
 
Playlists
Edge Effect
6 videos
Edge Effect 6 Videos
Collection of videos made by Andy Preston as part of his "Edge Effect" project and some live performances.
Pagan Calendar
4 videos
Pagan Calendar 4 Videos
Memories of events I've attended.
Stuff I made or helped with
7 videos
Videos (not necessarily Edge Effect related) that I've made or at least had a hand in the making of but haven't necessarily been posted by me.
Lullaby
6:15
[TRANSLATED] Lullaby
[TRANSLATED] Lullaby
A video made for the "The Method Learned" project on MySpace based on "Lullaby (Ta...
8 months ago 956 views edgeeffect
A Ghost at Netley Abbey (Updated)
3:05
For ages I had had the idea of making this short film. I had written the software ...
1 year ago 966 views edgeeffect
Fallen Angels
6:22
[TRANSLATED] Fallen Angels
[TRANSLATED] Fallen Angels
This video was created to form part of an exhibition of site specific art based ar...
1 year ago 290 views edgeeffect
2008 Artsite Presentation
5:04
Bill Cox of Artsite Studios (as it was then called) provides a summary of Artsite ...
2 months ago 25 views edgeeffect