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re: is the sound project of Aden Evens and Ian Ilavsky, who first met in the Philosophy department at McGill University in 1990 and began working on music together in 1996.
Aden Evens graduated Harvard with a degree in Philosophy and Maths, spent a few years programming computers in Boston, then moved to Montreal in 1990 and wrote his PhD on Deleuze, ethics, and aesthetics at McGill. He taught various courses in Philosophy, Literature and Sound Theory at SUNY Albany, the New School, McGill and Harvard around the cusp of the millennium before recently landing a professorship at MIT. His first book, Sound Ideas, is forthcoming in the 'Theory Out of Bounds' series from Minnesota Press (Spring 2005). His academic and published work focuses on questions of digital and analog sound, the ontology of noise, ethics and the cultural implications of digital media. He plays lots of improvisational music on various instruments, virtual and acoustic, but he does OK with Bach's 'Well-Tempered Clavier' too. He lives in Arlington MA with his wife, two kids, two cats and big dog.
Ian Ilavsky abandoned school in 1992 to bake bagels and play in post-punk band Sofa, joined folk-punk group Sackville in 1996 and co-founded Constellation Records with Don Wilkie in 1997. Also with Don, he curated and produced the 'musique fragile' concert series from 1997-1999, which featured some of the first performances by a new crop of experimental musicians from Montreal and the surrounding region, many of whom have gone on to record for Constellation, Alien8, No Type, etc. He has contributed to various recordings by other Montreal bands, both as engineer (Fly Pan Am) and musician (Hangedup, Frankie Sparo). He joined Silver Mt. Zion in 2001 and co-founded the very loud drum and bass duo Diebold in 2003. He has written various polemical tracts about independent artistic production, the music industry, and the media. He lives in Montreal QC by himself, surrounded by dear friends.
