psy-sci

Matthew Timpanelli

Staten Island

psy-sci is a multimedia artist born and raised in Staten Island's south shore. In 2001 he joined a music community called Soulseek Records that was associated with the Soulseek filesharing program. Later he became a project organizer there and took over the duties as webmaster and head of the organization around 2003-2004. His work with the community received positive reviews for the label and the community was featured at yearly art and music festival called lab30 in Augsburg, Germany. In 2004 he performed at this festival along with community members. From his work with this community he was then hired by Soulseek LLC to be the Art Director for their commercial label called SLSK Records which became a sister label to Soulseek Records. There he was involved in organizing tours and performances, photo shoots, contests, and all the duties of a commercial record label. While being an art director and learning many things he began to do freelance work as a graphic designer. He was hired by another record label called Peppermill Records to do cover art and layouts. He was then hired by the Institute of Courage, a school founded by famous hair stylist Micheal O'Rourke, and was involved in doing more graphic design work for them. In January 2008, he was included in an art show at TheShowroomNYC, Toy Tokyo's art gallery in Manhattan's lower east side. He has been released on many compilations and collaborated with many artists as well as conceptualizing and managing several music and art projects.