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Gavin Russom is a musician, producer, DJ and visual artist. His work across various media explores the ways in which sound, vision and space can transform consciousness and connect the individual with the vital energy present in all earthly things. Russom began experimenting with sound and noise as early as his teen years, but his first recorded output resulted from his intense 1998-2007 collaboration with co-visionary Delia Gonzalez. That multimedia partnership yielded expansive electronic compositions largely built upon Russom's self-designed analog synthesizers, as well as sound installations that blurred the lines between music and visual art that exhibited in several international museums and galleries. Delia & Gavin – just one of many names under which the duo performed and recorded – produced the critically hailed 2005 album The Days of Mars, a vivid psychedelic epic that draws upon disparate fields of influence including ritual drumming, devotional chants, spiritual jazz, 20th century minimalist composition, kosmische musik, European disco and Detroit techno. Following that groundbreaking release, Russom’s musical explorations continued with Black Meteoric Star, a solo project through which he produced a series of three narratively-conjoined 12" singles inspired by the use of trance-inducing repetition in early electronic dance music and psychedelic rock. Russom began performing and recording music featuring guitar, vocals and electronic instrumentation under his own name around the same time. In 2009, he began working with performance artist and filmmaker Viva Ruiz in The Crystal Ark, an ongoing musical endeavor focused on rhythm, physicality and movement. As with all his previous projects, both the music of The Crystal Ark and his solo work relies heavily on innovative sound modules built and designed by Russom himself. That displayed modular prowess, which previously led him to become the in-house electronics specialist for the DFA Records studio, has also resulted in Russom being commissioned to build synthesizers for label outfits such as Holy Ghost!, Black Dice and LCD Soundsystem, of which he was a touring member until their farewell shows. A prolific and inventive producer, Russom has remixed tracks for Cut Copy, The Juan Maclean and Caribou, and has DJ’ed extensively in venues around the world. Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, Russom relocated to New York City in 1997 and returned there in 2009 following a five-year stint in Berlin.
 

Hometown:
New York, New York 

Record Label:
DFA 

Booking Agent:
Support Agency, Berlin: oliver@support-agency.com //////// Bond Music Group, New York: robert@bondmusicgroup.com 

Members:
Gavin Russom 

Website:
www.gavinrussom.com