1) Kyle Bates is a Pacific Northwest based musician, audio visual artist, a… Read Full Bio ↴1) Kyle Bates is a Pacific Northwest based musician, audio visual artist, and writer. He actively creates and performs in sister projects Drowse and Floating Room that have produced a range of work for The Native Sound, Good Cheer Records, Apneic Void and Television. His video work has been described as “incredibly lush and dreamy” and “psychedelic” while his audio work has been referred to as “the aural equivalent of blood rushing back to a sleeping limb”. Bates is focused on exploring tangible aural space, the bipolar experience, and making the personal public; he is influenced by Roland Barthes’ practice of reading the self as text. He plays with themes of memory, shame, detachment, sleep, fear, and love. His work has included commissions for film and videogame soundtracks, sound and text based performance art, and various writings. Bates has presented and performed his work at festivals, spaces, and galleries across the United States. He currently resides in Portland, OR.

http://kylebates.bandcamp.com/

2) Drowse is a cult

“DANCE IN THE DECAY,” the first LP from the Philadelphia society of future vampires will be out this fall on SORE EAR COLLECTIVE.

https://drowsephl.bandcamp.com/