Cameron Deas is an experimental musician based in London.
Currently working with electronics, he uses an integrated array of synthesis
techniques that are triggered by, and in turn manipulate, external acoustic
sound sources, in and out of conjunction with pure electronic sounds. Working
in an entirely live environment, Deas creates a kind of real-time musique concrete,
resulting in an abstract yet organic contemporary electronic music.
Also known for his work as a guitarist, Deas’s debut LP for
this project, String Studies, is a suite that focuses on using the 12 string
acoustic guitar as the sole sound source of this live musique concrete: a
wooden frame to an electronic music. String Studies will be released this
summer on Alter.
“...the notes of his 12 string acoustic are raw material for
violent sculpture, torn apart and flung about separately by the manipulations
of his modular synth, bouncing around the space in a hyper-kinetic match of
sound squash.” The Wire, April 2014
"With its crude drones and warped topographical
sketches, Human Heads' debut cassette goes some way to aligning these
approaches by colliding folk tropes with concrete poetry. The Beauticinist is
the first release by former Helhesten compadres Ben Knight and Hannah Ellul,
and sees them veer away from the kind of ecstatic drone based improvisation
typical of post-Vibracathedral Orchestra bedroom experimentalists and forage
into murkier territory, casting manipulated field recordings as a drizzly
backdrop over which are placed the colloquial tics of everyday exchanges. [...]
The combination of cheap analogue keyboards played at invasive pitches,
primitive percussion presets and cut-up vocals blurting private anxieties
allies Human Heads to Industrial revolutionaries like Whitehouse and Throbbing
Gristle. There is something of the transgressive humour and ineffable
melancholy of those groups on "Swil Impotency" when, out of a horizon
line of searing drones and wind-damaged dictaphones, an anonymous lady asks in
a sullen Yorkshire drawl: "Are you all right? Do you know where you're
going?".' - Alex Neilson, Wire Magazine, 2013
File under: Contemporary Experimental UK-Underground.
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