An Infinite Antenna [LP]

Steve Bates - An Infinite Antenna [LP]

Montréal-based sound artist Steve Bates expands his strategies and stylistic influences on An Infinite Antenna, his second solo album for Constellation, giving freer reign to melodic components and textural dynamics: leftfield synth work, deconstructed drum machine, pointillist electric guitar, and radiostatic blur are all part of the new brew swirling around his bruitist signal-bending and field-recording sensibility.

Coming out of the anarcho-punk scene of the Canadian Prairies in the 1990s, Bates founded Winnipeg's experimental sound festival Send + Receive in 1998 before moving to Montréal to become Sound Coordinator at Hexagram (Concordia University). Incorporating source recordings made throughout 2023-2025, including at artist residencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Greece, and Saskatchewan, An Infinite Antenna combines Bates' idea of slowly scanning a radio dial with a soundworld of recurring timbral and textural touchstones that forge an integrated whole.

Track Listing:

Pink pink pink pink…pink pink
Green as a ghost
Battles and sieges and street trees
Waste, songs of the world
Easier sad than done
Mountain scene
Swiss apartment layouts
Decades of river widths
Disaster loans
Corporate activity, ancient shipwrecks
Lettre d'amour à Fly Pan Am
Swamps and factories