THE FLOWERS LP
MOVING THROUGH EMOTIONS LP
R.A.P. FERREIERA – UPTOWN 37
Honored to have a production on the R.A.P. Ferreira album, my collaboration with Tony Bevilacqua.
EVERYTHING OK!
THOUGHTFORMS LP
LIQUID SUNSHINE
Liquid Sunshine is a slice of melancholic IDM reminiscent of Flatlands era Nalepa stylings. A bonus track accompaniment to Thoughtforms LP, the video highlights our inherent and interconnected fragility and dependence on nature, showing it feeding back on itself.
APERTURE
“Aperture” is the third single from the forthcoming Nalepa – Thoughtforms LP. A roving math-injected vanishing-point adhering to multivarious visibility planes which overlap/overflow via wrinkles between seamless natural colormode timestamps up and down the stack; from pollen to perfumes to point-clouds, reaching through far-away looks into the wider scenography captured by algorithmic crawls and swerves, carving paths through open-source gigapixel imagery in the flux of astral apertures.
Californian polymath Steve Nalepa is known for his vast and eclectic array of artistic collaborators, a key node in the electronic music scene cultivated through years of creating music and producing events. He releases music and tours with his bands The Acid (Infectious/Mute) and Airspace (Mute). Nalepa is a founding member of esteemed beat collective TeamSupreme, he has published award-winning art books through the self-launched Dilettante Press, scored several feature-length documentary films and devised/engineered Ableton Live rigs for such acts as Blood Orange, Nick Murphy, Drake and The Weeknd.
Laskfar Vortok is an interMedia composer / telePresent videomaker. Born in México; digitized-manifestation is actualized in Internet.
• Website: http://bildwissenschaft.vortok.info/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaSkFaRvOrToK
• Insta: https://instagram.com/infotorium
• bandcamp: https://vortok.bandcamp.com/
RHIZOME
The euphoric video for Rhizome blends tvHat’s existing digital works with layers of abstract colors. Combined with Nalepa’s music, this collaboration takes the viewer on a reflective, meditative journey though the safe spaces of love, wonder, and beauty.
Wade Harpootlian (aka tvHat) is a multimedia artist that combines abstract geometric forms with hand-drawn digital accents, vivid colors, soft gradients and a spoonful of glitch. He firmly believes in the power of randomness and exploration in art and its role in jumpstarting ideas during the creative process.
tvHat explores the spaces between the surreal and real, combining photography and video work into base layers and color samples. He enjoys combining multiple techniques to create layered and beautiful work.
You can see more of Wade’s work on his Instagram:
http://instagram.com/tvHat84
MATERIALIZATION
Black|Box|Echo utilizes customized analog video processors to illuminate visionary, prophetic text by Carmen Hermosillo (aka HumDog) from 1994 for the “Materialization” video.
Zak Norman is a British visual artist and stage designer who operates under the pseudonym of Black|Box|Echo. Along with his own pieces, he has collaborated with musicians such as Squarepusher, Bicep, Scuba and Africa Express on set pieces and touring productions. Californian polymath Steve Nalepa is known for his vast and eclectic array of artistic collaborators. He produces solo and collaborative work under the moniker Nalepa, creates audiovisual works with the project Airspace, and releases music and tours with his bandmates The Acid (Infectious/Mute). The pair recently performed an audiovisual set together at Moogfest 2019.
SLEEPY EYES
“Sleepy Eyes” is the first single off of the new Nalepa album Thoughtforms. Benton C Bainbridge has created a mesmerizing visual to accompany the music, utilizing modular video synth prototypes from Dave Jones. Together, the music and video evoke states of mind at the threshold of consciousness: subdued yet ecstatic. Bainbridge illuminates, “you know when there are clean sheets on the bed, the fresh air is gently blowing over you as the sheets lay lightly upon your body, and then you get a muted fuzzy buzzy happy feeling, as you start rolling down the path to dreamland? That’s what I hear in the music and the soporific aliveness I wanted to come across in the video.” Sleepy Eyes premiered at Abuja Art Week in Nigeria by invitation of Naija Tech Creatives on November 10, 2019.
Benton C Bainbridge creates media art, collaborating with a wide range of artists, including Beastie Boys (as their VJ) and TV On The Radio (video synth FX for the “Staring at the Sun” video). Currently, the AV duo Rue Bainbridge is performing in London, NYC and L.A. with singing saw, modular synths and a hacked game console. Bainbridge was the resident media artist for 11 seasons of One Step Beyond at American Museum of Natural History. Benton is Artist in Residence at Andrew Freedman Home, where he showed video sculptures and moving paintings with the sold-out, immersive MoMA PopRally co-production, Beauteous.
Californian polymath Steve Nalepa is known for his vast and eclectic array of artistic collaborators, a key node in the electronic music scene cultivated through years of creating music and producing events. He releases music and tours with his bands The Acid (Infectious/Mute) and Airspace (Mute). Nalepa is a founding member of esteemed beat collective TeamSupreme, he has published award-winning art books through the self-launched Dilettante Press, scored several feature-length documentary films and devised/engineered Ableton Live rigs for such acts as Blood Orange, Nick Murphy, Drake and The Weeknd.
The pair have previously collaborated on videos for “Flatlands” (2007) and “Daytime” (2012).
ACTIVE IMAGINATION
“Active Imagination” is the second single from the forthcoming Nalepa album Thoughtforms. Crafted together from live takes in the studio, “Active Imagination” finds arpeggiating synths colliding with shimmering effects, waves of droning shoegaze and jacking Chicago house beats. The video features a collection of ephemeral and shapeshifting self portraits that David Henry Brown Jr. creates as the character David Nobody on his @davidhenrynobodyjr Instagram account.
Mr. Nobody created the word Resemblagè (the combination of the words resemble and collage) to describe this expanding body of artwork. As a virtual consciousness with No Body on Social Media, Mr. Nobody defies the corporatized cookie-cutter versions of the vanity of ourselves. Resemblagè is like an inside-out person and shows the grotesque, cryptic and traumatized side of humanity hidden behind the masks of the everyday. He wears the excesses of consumerist society on his exterior self to expose and question society. He wears food to show how we live in waste and that we ourselves are essentially food for corporations. David Nobody’s immersion into this mental/emotional space of Resemblagè stems from the still new medium of the internet, which gazes into us far more than we look into it (which is unprecedented). This new way of feeling is affecting how we see ourselves and each other through troubling and distorted political times. The work is as much a Sociological experiment as an expansion of what art can possibly become in the present and the future.
Californian polymath Steve Nalepa is known for his vast and eclectic array of artistic collaborators, a key node in the electronic music scene cultivated through years of creating music and producing events. He releases music and tours with his bands The Acid (Infectious/Mute) and Airspace (Mute). Nalepa is a founding member of esteemed beat collective TeamSupreme, scored several feature-length documentary films and devised/engineered Ableton Live rigs for such acts as Blood Orange, Nick Murphy, Drake and The Weeknd. After graduating Yale with a degree in Mathematics and Economics, Nalepa moved to Los Angeles and taught high school math and science, worked as a costumed children’s party entertainer and became a paranormal news researcher for daily TV show Strange Universe. He also cleared clips for Busted On The Job and World’s Worst Neighbor before growing tired of TV’s need to dumb everything down to the lowest common denominator. He left TV to publish award-winning art books through the self-launched Dilettante Press. Nalepa first met David Henry Brown Jr. installing “Starstruck: Photographs From a Fan” by Gary Lee Boas at Deitch Projects in January, 2000. The exhibition, accompanying the art book of the same name, won Artforum’s “Best of 2000.”
David Henry Brown Jr. is an Interventionist/immersionist performance artist and sculptor who works in diverse mediums, often placing his physical body into the work. Frequently riffing off of the dark side of American popular culture, he has been showing his work since the early 1990’s both in the New York art world and as a renegade underground figure and as a collaborator. During his many different artistic periods, his work often involves the creation of characters that perform and make objects. His work first became notorious when he Impersonated New York socialite Alex Von Furstenberg, crashing VIP parties for one whole year in 2000. Sixty photos document “Alex” meeting the Clintons, Puff Daddy and other luminaries. The project was shown as his first solo show at Roebling Hall gallery In new York and created an international news scandal in the media, appearing in The New York Observer, The Globe and on ABC’s 20/20 with John Stossil, to name a few. His work has been collected in prominent private art collections.
The theme of the DIY Fantastic Nobody, the ‘loser’ that acts like they are famous but who is not, drives David’s work deeper inside the images and social masks of an image obsessed culture. David predicted the Trump presidency in his 1999 Stalking Donald Trump performances, where he followed Trump for a year and even made Trump For President 2000 campaign posters and campaigned on his behalf, as a prescient social experiment. With this point of view, David has gone on to continue to break new and experimental ground in his Red Carpet Rollers Project (collaboration with British artist Dominic McGill), Shopping Mall Portrait Series, Wax Museum Host project, post 9/11 Fashion series, Drawing series, Polaroid series, Pizza Infinity series, Banksy Impersonation series as well as an assortment of ongoing studio works/objects.
For more information and available prints:
www.davidhenrybrownjr.com
THOUGHTFORMS
“This study is part of an ongoing body of work looking at feedback loops in perception. The starting point was human tri-chromatic vision: our eye’s sensitivity to red, green and blue wavelengths of light. Because of this we design digital screens with red, green and blue light diodes and digital cameras with red, green and blue filter arrays, creating a feedback loop between humans and technology.
The film is devoid of realism, rather creating a lens into the components of light itself – inspired by the notion that a huge percentage of reality consists of what we cannot observe and only see in our minds eye.”
Ben Kreukniet is an artist and artistic director who works across areas of art, architecture and audio-visual performance.
His process is multi-disciplinary – working with a network of makers and technologists to realize personal and commissioned work for museums and galleries, fashion, public space and live performance.
His work uses sound, light, moving image and technology to reflect and reveal the systems that shape human experience.
Before starting his solo practice in 2016, Ben co-directed United Visual Artists, overseeing design and development across the studio’s artistic and performative practice.
www.instagram.com/ben.kreukniet
ARIZONA
Honored to have several original songs featured in my friend Jonathan Watson’s directorial debut starring Danny McBride, Rosemarie DeWitt, Luke Wilson, Elizabeth Gillies, Kaitlin Olson, David Alan Grier, and Lolli Sorenson.
Nalepa x Luka
Nalepa x William Arcane
Nalepa x Jimetta Rose
Another One of Mine
Nalepa – Night Bloom EP
Music by Steve Nalepa.
Video co-created by Benton-C Bainbridge, V Owen Bush and Steve Nalepa.
Video produced at dvlabs in New York.
Daytime’s synth voices and painterly visuals spin a dreamy tale. The Sun cannot pierce through a cloud-wrapped planet and thus wages war with sunbeams. The Clouds fight back with vapors; in the end, life wins. Daytime’s sinuous imagery was hand-crafted with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer, an analog video instrument built in the early 70s. Like a TV from another dimension, the Rutt/Etra gives artists total control of the screen with knobs, oscillators and sound-responsive circuitry. It is a modular analog computer, programmed with patch chords. The artists dedicate Daytime to the memory of Steve Rutt, co-inventor of the Rutt/Etra. Steve’s pioneering work as an engineer and entrepreneur helped create the media culture we now live in.
VISIONAIRE 53: SOUND
Nalepa was one of the 100 artists featured in the acclaimed Visionaire 53: SOUND, his song “Flatlands” joining original pieces from David Byrne, U2, Michael Stipe, Courtney Love, Cat Power, Laurie Anderson, Adrock, Lee Ranaldo, Antony & the Johnsons, Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Malcolm McLaren, Andrew WK, Danger Mouse; Artists Yoko Ono, Cerith Wyn Evans, Helmut Lang, Christian Marclay, Doug Aitken, Gary Hill, Vito Acconci, Mariko Mori; Bands The Knife, Unkle, Animal Collective, SunnO))), Gang Gang Dance; DJ’s Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), miss kittin, Trevor Jackson, Towa Tei, Nigo, Hiroshi Fujiwara; Fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, Stefano Pilati; and many more. SOUND was packaged with a portable record player inside a specially produced domed case, with five 12” vinyl record picture discs boasting artwork by Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, Raymond Pettibon, and Ryan McGinley, among others.
Nalepa – Flatlands LP
Album art by Greg Foley
Flatlands – video by Benton-C Bainbridge and David Last
Durian – video by Thomas Williams
Lighter – video by Brian Ziffer
Monday – video by Brian Kane
4th of July – video by Johnny Dekam
SunriseSunset – video by ArrowOne
Fresh – video by Jason Trucco
Rhodes Racer – video by Christina McPhee
Lullaby – video by Psyborg and Prophei
Lullaby (Kraddy Remix) – video by VJ Synesthete
Nalepa Theme Song (Kero Flatlands Megamix) – video by Andrea Slavik