Russell Haswell

• Background — person • Name — Russell Haswell • Born — 1970 • Birthplace — Coventry, West Midlands, England • Occupation — * Musician • visual artist • Label — * Editions Mego • Warp

Russell Haswell has exhibited conceptual and wall-based visual works, video art, public sculpture, as well as audio presentations in both art gallery and concert hall contexts. Extreme Computer Music is one specialized area of activity. An ongoing collaboration with Florian Hecker working with Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input "UPIC Music Composing System" is one project, the recorded results have been presented in the form of multi channel electroacoustic diffusion sessions, for example for the Frieze Art Fair. He has collaborated with Aphex Twin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Florian Hecker, Earth, Popol Vuh, Kjetil Manheim, Carsten Höller, Mika Vainio, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Masami Akita, Peter Rehberg, Zbigniew Karkowski, Gescom, Yasunao Tone and Whitehouse. In 2002 his debut album Live Salvage 1997→2000 (Mego) received a Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention for Digital Musics & Sound Art. In 2005 and 2006 he curated two London-based All Tomorrow's Parties club events, entitled "Easy to Swallow", intended for the "broad-minded". The events showcased: Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Yasunao Tone + Hecker, Mark Stewart and the Maffia, Aphex Twin, Whitehouse, Surgeon + Regis Present: British Murder Boys, Lee Dorrian, Pita, Earth, Autechre and Robert Hood (ex-Underground Resistance). In 2009 he contributed a cover of the Wild Planet song "Cabasa Cabasa" to Warp Records's 20th anniversary Warp20 (Recreated) compilation. He also released Factual (2012), 37 Minute Workout (2014), and As Sure As Night Follows Day (2015).