Steev HiseJune 30, 2006
*Name: Steev Hise
*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: nope.
*Do you use a pseudonym? No.
*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: none. I'm a documentary filmmaker who once made electronic audio art. which is not to say i've totally given that up, i may go back to making music and sound art, but i've been concentrating on film/video for the last 4 years or so. for now i think music is an insufficient form to convey the messages i need to convey to my audience, so that's why i do film.
*Another genre descriptor: "recycled culture." i stole that term from the Tape-beatles. it really fits.
*Location: Davenport, Iowa, but I live in Tucson now.
*What is your creative/artistic background: I come from a community radio and punk band background, with a little grad school thrown in, at an art school studying music and new media. (Starting at) WCBN ("Radio Free Ann Arbor"), the student station in Ann Arbor, at the U of Michigan, where I did my undergrad in electrical engineering. For grad school i went to CalArts in Los Angeles, studied there with Morton Subnotick, Tom Erbe, and Dick Hebdige, amongst others. Band names, in chronological order: International Leakage, The Tao Puppies, T-Zero, Ears Under Siege (getting into noise and ambient electronics here), Hubie, Wax Utensil Guild, The Anti-Cyborg Orchestra
*History: about 16 years.
*Born: in the late 60s.
*Motivations: to make the world better, somehow.
*Philosophy: the world is fucked, and artists have the responsibility to help fix it. just as everyone does, but artists have a more important role than many, because they have the power to communicate ideas and sway opinions.
*How would you like to be remembered: that's a hard one. maybe something like "he was great in bed, and his intentions were good."
*Web address: detritus.net/steev
also i have a blog here: steev.hise.org
also the site for my new documentary about the murdered women of Ciudad Juarez is:
political.detritus.net
