Shaun Robert is sound art musician, producer director of Institute For Alien Research label.
Born in Brixham, Devon, England in 1966.
Shaun has been working with sound from an early age, a natural extension of play. Starting like many with a domestic tape recorder; years finger poised on the pause button; tunnelling into the present & falling into deep concentration; in a trance of coloured sound trials; impromptu expressions processed & filtered into moments of congealed sound; also using field recording, in voxpop & audio voyeurism, of hauntological stylings, spoken word & singing. Falling apart to come together; feeling the next transition is about to happen, tape phasing sound on sound; skimming back to make collusion edits; building deep relationships with that aesthetic; this interaction shows itself in within all his works . And the importance of sounds from analogue radio, magnetic tape manipulation can not be understated.
Cross talk & frequency drifting pulls the strings of his heart & relating to loops and rough editing, audio drop outs, a Sonic Organic. A mix of forms in an expanding wave, nudging & slating whim, composition dealt in reality, a truth of intimate confessional & intruding a microphone, the tension of triggered sounds to ape pictures of life
The work under the Shaun Robert moniker is inhabited with conventional instruments including guitar, drums, bass, violin, various keybroads, melodica, trumpet, accordion, mandolin, harmonica, stylophone and various toys; Objects are treated like instruments & vice versa.