Bill Baird

Texas native Costs Baird is a prolific, multifaceted musician and a D.We.Y. designer/inventor/technologist. He’s done multi-media artwork installations, music video clips, independent film ratings, and different experimental sound recordings and live functions (including “Compumonium,” using what he phone calls his laptop computer ensemble). He’s also released music under his personal name, as Sunset, so that as an associate of indie rock-band Sound Group. He formed Audio Group in 2000 with Matt Oliver, ultimately growing the lineup, which would differ as time passes. After earning an evergrowing group of fans with a string self-released CD-Rs and cassettes, they produced the analog-recorded Marathon LP, that was picked up with the St. Ives imprint of Secretly Canadian. It had been accompanied by 2005’s Function EP, an array of previously released music. That same season, they were agreed upon to Capitol and toured to get rings including Arcade Fireplace as well as the Walkmen. Their Capitol debut, Film Monster, was released in June 2006. Among various other factors, restructuring on the label resulted in the band getting dropped a season later, as well as the group self-released the vinyl fabric EP Empty Areas/Bedroom Wall space/Up from Ashes. Audio Team made a decision to disband immediately after, playing a farewell present on the 2007 Austin Town Limits Music Celebration. Baird continued release a piecemeal materials under his very own name while he produced Sunset, that was essentially a single project. Mixing catchy, sunshiny indie pop, experimental instrumentals, consumer electronics, and ambient tune sketches, Sunset released five long-players — Green Clouds, Shiny Blue Wish, The Glowing Town, Silver Dissolves to Grey, and Loveshines However the Moon Is certainly Shining As well — all in the period of 2008 to 2010. This year 2010, he also made an appearance in the documentary Echotone about the Austin music picture, and Autobus, which have been launching Sunset’s materials, also released Baird’s essentially unavailable single recording Silence! from 2006. Shedding the Sunset name, he continuing to focus on numerous musical tasks, including live collaborations, self-released tunes, and 2013’s Planting season Break from the Spirit, released via Austin’s Pau Wau Information. That 12 months, he also relocated towards the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region to pursue a Expert of Good Arts in experimental music at Mills University. Ensuing tasks included 2014’s Magnetetractys/Sizzling Hands, his name for the demo of a built electro-acoustic harp table regarding magnetism and synthesizers, and media art set up The Living Space in the Museum of Human being Accomplishment in Austin. In 2015, he released Vexationsbot, a pc program that takes on through all 840 cycles of Erik Satie’s posthumously released Vexations, and premiered Mundus Novus, an experimental public-access tv opera. Globe into Aether, a 19-monitor assortment of “musical postcards” influenced by travels over the United States, found its way to early 2016. Giving choices from across Baird’s pop/rock and roll single result, it represented a mélange of stylistic affects, including garage area and psychedelic pop, electronica, and nation. He came back in past due 2016 with Summer season Is Gone. Although it premiered in physical, digital, and loading formats, he offered its ten songs — each with a large number of remix variations by Baird himself — at a custom made website that could create a distinctive version from the album for every visitor. He quickly adopted that with a set of LPs released on vinyl fabric via Talk Display Records on a single day time in March 2017. Referred to as “morning hours” and “night time” information, respectively, Easy Devices focused on reflective psych-folk while Baby Blue Abyss provided a far more shimmering, uptempo established.