About Me
Venetian Snares is the main performing alias of Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk (born January 11, 1975).
Funk debuted on a record label in 1999 with the 12" vinyl EP, Greg Hates Car Culture. Prior to this, he self-released material on cassette tape as early as 1992.
From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Funk is known for making experimental electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures. He is an unusually prolific artist, having released records on the History of the Future, Isolate/DySLeXiC ResPonSe, Addict, Zod, Distort, Sublight, Low-Res, Planet Mu and Hymen record labels.
Funk's first release was the EP Greg Hates Car Culture, (released on History of the Future) followed by Salt on Zhark International and Fuck Canada / Fuck America with Stunt Rock for CLFST. When Mike Paradinas heard Greg Hates Car Culture, he immediately signed Funk for Planet Mu. The first Venetian Snares LP on Planet Mu, Making Orange Things (a co-production with Speedranch), dropped in early 2001; following in short order were five more releases, all before the end of 2002. Funk continued recording for a variety of labels, including Hymen Records,Peace Off Records, Addict Records, and Sublight Records, and has also recorded as Snares Man!, Ventriloquist Snakes, Puff, Last Step, BeeSnares and Senetian Vnares.
His style has been critically acclaimed, notably by the late British radio disc jockey John Peel.
Venetian Snares composes much of his music with trackers. Before he began to release his music commercially, he worked primarily with OctaMED on an Amiga 500. At some point prior to 2000, he began using a PC and the Windows port of OctaMED, MED Soundstudio. During 2003 and 2005 he also used Cubase in addition to MED. Today he also works with Renoise.
Venetian Snares' latest full length album is titled My Downfall (Original Soundtrack). It is considered to be a follow up to Rossz Csillag Alatt Született.
