Airspace Photo by Richard Farmer
| Music | Steve Nalepa (The Acid, TeamSupreme, Nalepa) x Tony Bevilacqua (The Distillers, Cold Showers, plaster 0f paris)
|| Visual || Zak Norman (Black Box Echo)
“Their compositions generate an actual immersive universe with a depth of sound and understanding of pacing and restraint that places it firmly out of the meditation class and into the otherworldly spaces of the horrors and beauty of the soul.”
Californian polymath Steve Nalepa is known for his vast and eclectic array of artistic collaborators. He’s a founding member of esteemed beat collective TeamSupreme and a key node in the electronic music scene cultivated through years of creating music, producing events and mentoring many of today’s top artists in Ableton Live. Nalepa has published award-winning art books through the self-launched Dilettante Press, scored several feature-length documentary films, devised and engineered Ableton Live rigs for such acts as Blood Orange, Drake and The Weeknd. He releases music and tours with his band The Acid (Infectious/Mute).
Tony Bevilacqua is a guitarist based in Los Angeles. He has performed and recorded with a plethora of artists including the Distillers, Brody Dalle, Adam Freeland, Har Mar Superstar, The Soft Pack, jennylee, La Sera, Cold Showers and Spinnerette.
Zak Norman is a visual artist and stage designer based in London who operates under the pseudonym Black Box Echo. His work with Squarepusher to create a fully generative, audio reactive visual system saw him perform with the Warp Records artist throughout 2015 in venues including Sydney Opera House and the Barbican in London. His other installation work includes design for a one off performance by Africa Express in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern Gallery and a reactive audio-visual installation controlled by an EEG brain scanner, commissioned for Loop Festival, UK.
Airspace photo by Mark Read
Airspace photo by Kristian Ranker