stAllio! nGsta
Indianapolis
1999: released <a href="http://animalswithinanimals.com/dissonance_is_bliss/"><i>dissonance is bliss!</i></a>, an EP of music composed almost entirely of data files that had been reinterpreted as audio (sonified) [<a href="http://animalswithinanimals.com/dissonance_is_bliss/">free download here</a>]
1999: released <i>perpetual motion machine</i>, an album of dark soundscapes recorded on a 4-track recorder using synths and a variety of found objects
late 1999: founded <A href="http://animalswithinanimals.com">animals within animals</a>, an experimental music collective with open admission, and released AWIA's debut album, "yard ape". the original goal of the band was simply as an outlet for collaborations with other musicians, but it quickly developed a focus on sampling, found sound, remixing, etc.
2000: released <i>_the fezzuck</i>, an album of dark beats recorded using MC-303 groovebox and SP-202 sampler
2001: released <i>mono a mono</i>, a 2cd release by animals within animals
2002: after years of making music out of sonified raw data files, took the idea to the next level by converting image files to sound, editing them in a wav editor, and <a href="http://www.animalswithinanimals.com/bent/rr8.html">converting them back into images</a>. these were the <a href="http://www.animalswithinanimals.com/bent/">first of many experiments</a> in the emerging field of glitch art.
2003: released <i>maura's milk chocolate bath</i>, an album of audio collage centered around the themes of bathing and breakfast.
2004: released <a href="http://soundcloud.com/stallio/sets/stallio-true-data-12/"><i>true data</i></a>, a 12" record of databent music -- all samples were taken from sonified data files [<a href="http://soundcloud.com/stallio/sets/stallio-true-data-12/">stream it here</a>]
2005: released <a href="http://lostfrog.net/releases/lf049mp3.html"><i>get me some press or kill these people</i></a> by animals within animals [<a href="http://lostfrog.net/releases/lf049mp3.html">free download here</a>]
2005: first experiments <a href="http://www.animalswithinanimals.com/stallio/2005/07/wordpad-effect.html">using microsoft wordpad</a> to create glitch art
2007: released <a href="http://animalswithinanimals.com/parts_is_parts/"><i>parts is parts</i></a> by animals within animals [<a href="http://animalswithinanimals.com/parts_is_parts/">free download here</a>]
2007: released <a href="http://animalswithinanimals.com/droplift2/"><i>droplift II</i></a>, a parody of compilation albums such as <i>the droplift project</i> and <i>free speech for sale</i> [<a href="http://animalswithinanimals.com/droplift2/">free download here</a>]
early 2008: released <A href="http://animalswithinanimals.com/wack_cylinders/"><i>wack cylinders</i></a>, an album of dark soundscapes. over the past few years, stAllio! had developed a signature style of improvisation using numark CDN-88s and cds of processed found sound. this was the first of a planned trilogy of releases capturing the essence of improv style. [<A href="http://animalswithinanimals.com/wack_cylinders/">free download here</a>]
2008: released <a href="http://animalswithinanimals.com/mash_smarter/"><i>mash smarter not harder</i></a>, an EP of post-mashup music. tired of the stagnation in the so-called mashup scene, which had grown too dependent on the formula of placing one song's vocals atop another song's instrumental, stAllio! released this EP in an attempt to inject new ideas into the scene and push the envelope of appropriation-based music. [<a href="http://animalswithinanimals.com/mash_smarter/">free download here</a>]
2008: published <a href="http://blog.animalswithinanimals.com/2008/08/databending-and-glitch-art-primer-part.html">"databending and glitch art primer, part 1: the wordpad effect"</a>, explaining important glitch art concepts using the wordpad effect as an example
2009: published <a href="http://blog.animalswithinanimals.com/2008/09/databending-and-glitch-art-primer-part.html">"databending and glitch art primer, part 2: sonification"</a>, explaining how to reinterpret data files as PCM WAV audio, and how to make glitch art out of those files by editing them in audio software and converting them back into images
2010: released <a href="http://animalswithinanimals.com/a_huge_smash/"><i>a huge smash</i></a>, the full-length follow-up to <i>mash smarter</i>, picking up where that EP left off and continuing from there [<a href="http://animalswithinanimals.com/a_huge_smash/">free download here</a>]
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