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About Me

Montreal ex-pat naw (Neil Wiernik) who currently calls Toronto his home, began composing electronic music in 1988 with explorations in audio art and experimental music. Neil's interest in sound and technology has lead him to a continued questioning and refinement of audio tools and modes of production resulting in experimentation with altered instruments, modified devices, and custom software environments. Neil's music could be described as warm, atmospheric, and cinematic electronic music. The sound design of naw is firmly grounded in the rich traditions of dub studio culture but can also be weighed alongside formal contemporary composition. His music was recently described in "The Wire" as having "...the kind of sharpness and clarity usually lost amid the murk and decay of clicks and cuts and digital delays." Neil has released music on various labels including Noise Factory and Sentient Sound.In addition to his recording career Neil is an accomplished curator and digital media specialist, he has shown work in a variety of non-traditional spaces since the late 1980's and his projects have included works in radio, print, and internet diffusion as well as other non-gallery spaces including derelict buildings, billboards, pirate airwaves, and public space. Neil has presented projects at the Finland Contemporary Museum, ISEA, Subtle Technologies Conference, La SAT, The Medusa Complex, Mutek Festival and The Music Gallery. Neil also co-curates vagueterrain.net - an online digital arts quarterly.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/28/2006
Band Website: phoniq.net
Band Members: Neil Wiernik
Influences: the sound that the city makes between 330am and 5am. the sound that the air makes when it drops below -20 cel. the sound between the sounds. the sound of silence and the din of noise.
Sounds Like: naw is taking minimal techno to deeper levels and bringing new complexities to dub and post-house production values, naw's sound has the kind of sharpness and clarity usually lost amid the murk and decay of clicks and cuts and digital delays - Ken Hollings - WIREnaw may have a Canadian passport, but his music's ancestry is definitely German - minimal tech-house dub from Cologne or Berlin, to be precise. But while the austere, sleek techno of Basic Channel evoked the precision and speed of racing along the autobahn, naw's crisp clicks, warm bass throbs, and melodic synth patches imply a more leisurely approach to movement - Richard Moule - Grooves
Record Label: Noise Factory Records, Rivers Of, Stratagem Musik
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

naw live may 8th 2008 Toronto

naw, double suicide and elyn sof - may 8th - torontocome out and join us for an evening of lush deep musicfeaturing:naw - noise factory records - phoniq.netdouble suicide - constellation - sandroperri...
Posted by naw on Sun, 04 May 2008 06:56:00 PST

live shows, new releases and other bits...

Hi,I hope this message finds every well and enjoying the the time of year.Well now that I have kicked cancers ass and Im officially in remission, I will slowly begin to play shows again. I cant promis...
Posted by naw on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:32:00 PST

naw live shows dec 2007 and jan 2008

up coming show infoNYE in Montreal event infoNew Years Day in Montreal event infoJan 4th 2008 Toronto...
Posted by naw on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:46:00 PST

new free music by NAW

new free music by NAW on pertin-ncefree net release featuring naw, bluepulp and others. info below . Hope you'll enjoy! [pertin-nce_013]catalogue number : pertin-nce_013 artist : v/arelease title : ch...
Posted by naw on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:27:00 PST

naw website updated free music, reviews and news...

naw site updated, new free music to download updated the naw website, includes new news, reviews of city saturate, updated disography, bio and my most recently recorded live set from the mutek festiva...
Posted by naw on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:04:00 PST

naw featured in earplug this month

Philip Sherburne (of wire mag fame) and crew have naw featured at this months live set artist in thier ezine earplug to check out the feature:naw featureand to check out this awesome zine that I have ...
Posted by naw on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:28:00 PST

new release Cracked Lines & Broken Signals EP on Sentient Sound

Press release:Montreal ex-pat NAW (a.k.a. Neil Wiernik) began composing electronic music in 1988 with explorations in audio art and electro-acoustics. Fast-forward to 2007: hot on the heels of his ste...
Posted by naw on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:52:00 PST

naw news - new releases, live netcast to mutek and more

Its been a a while since I have sent out a news letter in fact Its beenavery long time I think. A lot of things has happened in the mean time.I have recently in the last few months put out 3 new relea...
Posted by naw on Wed, 30 May 2007 05:21:00 PST

some unfortunate news

March 22nd 2007, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. http://neilsnodes.blogspot.comis a photo blog of my personal progression through the treatment process for the disease to being cancer free.Im...
Posted by naw on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:11:00 PST

Fukhouse COMPRESSED Presents NAW - city saturate record release party

Fukhouse COMPRESSED Presents NAW - city saturate record release partyMarch, 30 2007 at Fukhouse COMPRESSED @ TOIBar577A College St., Toronto, OntarioCost : Free!!FRIDAY MARCH 30 2007: Fukhouse COMPRES...
Posted by naw on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:58:00 PST