David
Bickley music
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David Bickley has been experimenting with music and film since the age of 14. At 16 he directed a short film for the BBC and a few years later his Degree film, The Rite of Rain, for which he also scored the soundtrack, won 1st prize at the Sony Video Festival at the National Film Theatre in London.
His work has always embodied powerful atmospherics and these were put to fine use when he co-ranSynchroma, a soundtrack company based in London and producing scores for the series Survival & Equinox amongst others.
In Ireland David is probably best known for his work with seminal dance fusion outfit Hyper[borea] who released six C.d.'s and won a number of awards including the coveted Hotpress award for Best Dance Act.
David has also released a number of recordings with Krautrock legend Roedelius, member of influential '70's group Cluster. This relationship grew out of there mutual work on Jameos Del Agua, an ambient concert film made for Brian Eno's Opal company, which David co-directed and edited.
Recent works have included a number of audio visual gallery installations including Eist (in collaboration with Tom Green), a multi-screen audio/visual installation with eminent sound artists William Furlong & Slavek Kwi and the piece Future Land, which was the Guardian On-line's exhibition of the week.
David also composed the "continously-globally-touring" ambient score for Architects of the Air's Luminarium.
Recent music releases include Erebus & Terror, a very dark and very ambient album with Orb collaborator Tom Green released on UK label HS and Still Rivers at Night, an ambient/dance electro release on Dublin label "Psychonavigation".
He has also collaborated with Dare Mason under the moniker FOLD to produce the lp Slowburn and has also released a number of ambient compositions through Bandcamp. Currently David is producing tracks for various outfits and also working on a dub remix release for Colin Vearncombe, AKA BLACK.
Avian Attak recording / mixing session at Lettercolm Studios
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TV feature on Interference's Fergus O'Farrell featuring comments and performance by David
