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Zen Paradox

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About Me

Zen Paradox was established in 1991 by Steve Law as a solo outlet for his more techno oriented electronic music work.Steve has previously been a member of the groups Foil and Guild of Fire, and is a current member of Black Cab and High Pass Filter.His other solo projects include Mutagenic Mind, Mr. Suspicious and Solitary Soul.Steve has been producing avant garde and electro-acoustic music since 1984, and in 1996 was awarded the ABC Classic FM Computer Music Award for his composition "Urbania".He has collaborated with many other artists, including recorded works as Starseed Transmission (with Andrew Park), The Sonic Voyagers (with Voiteck), Retreat Syndrome (with Andrew Belcher), The Mutagen Server (with Ollie Olsen), Son of Science (with Andrew Garton) and Memory Geist (with Bakis Sirros). His live collaborators include Monolake, Andy Vaz, Atom Heart, Tetsu Inoue, Riou Tomita, Alistair Riddell, Ash Wednesday, Stephen Richards, Sean Baxter, Tom Fryer, Rod Cooper, Ai Yamamoto, James Wilkinson, Dale Nason and The Terminal Quartet.The latest Zen Paradox album Numinosum is available from iTunes

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/29/2006
Band Website: solitary-sound.com
Band Members: Steve Law
Influences: Tons of stuff - Kraftwerk, John Cage, Chrome, JG Ballard, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Iannis Xenakis, Robert Wyatt, Francis Bacon, Throbbing Gristle, Richard Pinhas, Henry Cow, David Lynch, John Foxx, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Edward Kaspel, Robert Rich, David Cronenberg.....
Sounds Like: something
Record Label: Solitary Sound
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Live performance at planetarium

On February 2nd I performed with Ollie Olsen (as The Mutagen Server) at the Melbourne planetarium, along with Monolake, David Chesworth and Nat Bates. For the performance we utilised the 5.1 sound sys...
Posted by Zen Paradox on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:42:00 PST

New releases

The most recent Zen Paradox album, Illogical Organism, is now available. This is a download only release through Cozy Music in the U.S. It is available from various on-line stores including iTunes.Fur...
Posted by Zen Paradox on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:45:00 PST

More live sets

Here's a couple more live sets for download.First, a more experimental sounding set from my performance at Gadget at The Australian Choreographic Centre in Canberra on 7/12/2005:Steve Law at Gadget, C...
Posted by Zen Paradox on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:42:00 PST

Zen Paradox live at Rainbow Serpent, 2006

The live recording of Zen Paradox at Rainbow Serpent 2006 can be downloaded here:Zen Paradox live at Rainbow serpent, 2006More live sets will be added to the blog soon....
Posted by Zen Paradox on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:51:00 PST

Steve Law/Andy Vaz live set

I performed live with Andy Vaz at Make it Up Club in Melbourne on 7th February 2006. The recording of this performance can be downloaded from the SoundVariation website (click on download section)....
Posted by Zen Paradox on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:49:00 PST

Memory Geist

Over the past few months, in between various other things, I've been working on a collaboration with the Greek electronic musician Bakis Sirros (from the group Parallel Worlds). Bakis sent me a couple...
Posted by Zen Paradox on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:02:00 PST

Black Cab - Jesus East launch

Last night I played with Black Cab at the launch of the Jesus East album at the Spanish Club. It was a special night, as the legendary Sam Cutler shared the stage with us. The gig began with just me a...
Posted by Zen Paradox on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:11:00 PST

Live set for download

Zen Paradox live at Open Channel, 14/12/2005. Also featuring Andrew Garton on synth and voice. Download here
Posted by Zen Paradox on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:32:00 PST

Solitary Soul - Uncharted Territory

Two lengthy improvised pieces. Social Inadequacy in our Information Age was recorded on new year's eve, 2003 (with laptop, ARP 2600 and Korg MS20). The Long Emergency (named after James Kunstler's boo...
Posted by Zen Paradox on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:50:00 PST

Steve Law EP Toxic Daguerreotypes available for free download

Toxic Daguerreotypes
Posted by Zen Paradox on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:42:00 PST