An Infinite Antenna
Steve bates
Constellation records
Steve Bates is a Montreal-based artist, musician, curator, and researcher whose work explores the intersections of electronic music, sound art, improvisation, and experimental composition. Emerging from hardcore and post-punk communities, Bates has spent decades developing a practice that moves between underground music cultures and contemporary artistic inquiry, creating work that balances experimentation with immediacy.
He has now returned with an expansion of strategies and stylistic influences on An Infinite Antenna: pointillist synth and electric guitar, deconstructed drum machine, and radiostatic blur are all part of the new brew swirling around his brutist signal-bending and field-recording sensibility. This is his second record and is a more ambient affair than his 2022 Constellation debut, An Infinite Antenna. This record is densely packed with ideas, dynamics, evocations, and earworms.
