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The Panic Of Wandering
Thomas Park, Wilfried Hanrath & Jim Andrews

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Much of the music was created using Generative Python by Thomas Park with voice and additional instruments by Wilfried Hanrath. Video source material by Jim Andrews.

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Thomas Park is a multi-disciplinary artist.  Thomas’ music and videos combine various and often found or assembled sounds and footage, covering genres such as drone, industrial, ambient and soundscapes. Though his primary art form is music, he has also created writing, visual art and video art. He uses a combination of acrylic and spray paints in homage to street art.  His prints usually involve combining 2 paintings digitally. More recently, Park has worked creating generative music and art using Python code, and was one of two people to create and release the GenerIter Python Module.

Wilfried Hanrath is a musician and photographer living in Wuppertal, Germany. After being given the chance for a second life with a transplant, he suddenly found myself a member of an ensemble for free improvisation. Playing concerts and festivals with his band and side-projects, he met musicians from all corners of the world virtually for collaborations, which now is precious in these times of the pandemic. Hearing Hanrath’s version of “The Fat Lady of Limbourg“ by Brian Eno (“The Well-Proportioned Lady of Limbourg” his slightly altered title), Thomas Park suggested doing a collaboration Hanrath’s way of making music is purely intuitive.  Future Light: The Panic Of Wondering and other short stories Tree Trunk Records 2021 → Their duo Future Light is working  on a second album.

Jim Andrews is a net artist, poet, programmer, visual and audio artist, mathematician and essayist. He has been publishing vispo.com since 1996. He completed a degree in English and Mathematics at the U of Victoria in Canada in 1983. He then produced a literary radio show called Fine Lines and, later, ?FRAME? for six years that he distributed each week to 15 campus/community stations in Canada.