((sounder)) is the musical project of visual artist Mike Aho and photographer Steve Stratton. For their second full-length entitled, ‘Good Things Come and Go Like Bad Things’, co-produced by Nadav Eisenman (RTX, Entrance) and mixed by Matt Wignall (Cold War Kids), Aho and Stratton create a world that is wrought with honesty and a disheveled pop sensibility. The music of ‘Good Things . . . ‘ builds with vibrating melodies which are cut short by cold and calculated electronics and distorted crescendos. Additional singers on the record are: Travis Millard, Mel Kadel, Keil Johnson, Dave Bryant and Kelly Marie. Aho's visual and audio aesthetic create a body of work filled with imagery of a wilting world and paradise lost; in recent years he has directed videos for Bonnie"Prince" Billy and RTX.
As a companion to the release, The ((sounder)) Director Collaboration Project will be a series of videos released throughout the spring and summer of 2008 in support of 'Good Things Come and Go Like Bad Things'.Featured artist/contributors will be Michael Sieben, Todd Bratrud, MelKadel, Travis Millard and Dave Bryant. Each artist will collaboratewith Mike Aho to create a video piece that either captures or decomposeseach song with the use of drawing, painting, animation and Film.
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