Chris Sciacca was born in New York. He holds a B.A. in Geography from the University of New York at Geneseo a B.A., and M.A. in Digital Music and Sound Arts from the University of Brighton.He is currently a practice-based researcher in the University of Greenwich SOUND/IMAGE PhD program. He is also a core member of Sound Art Brighton and leads the Listen Club, a monthly community listening event curated by guest artists. 
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Chris is a international scholarship award winner and a 2015 merit scholarship award winner. His practice based research: Twin Transects: Parallel Walks in Newhaven and Dieppe was nominated for the 2016 Seoul National University prize, the Nagoya University prize, and the 2016 Platform Graduate Award.  His supporting dissertation on the topic of sound in ethnographic and documentary cinema was nominated for the June and Sidney Crown dissertation prize. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Greenwich.
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Chris's musical training began on woodwinds throughout grade school. His passion for recording began with early tape experiments on a Panasonic RS 760S reel-to-reel recorder, eventually moving into the realm of digital audio. In 2007 he released his first full- length album distributed through Norman Records in Leeds, a UK record store stocking hard-to-find experimental music and electronica. In 2008 he performed live experimental music on KFJC's notable Live From the Devil's Triangle Series, Volume 11. His recent musical projects have been played on BBC3 and BBC6 radio, Juice Brighton Radio, and the experimental Danish radio station The Lake. His field recording has been featured on NTS's Infinite Mix Tape series, and Resonance Extra FM. Chris hosted a short radio series, Drifter's Dram:Smithsonian Folkways Review radio show on Slack City, Brighton and runs Listen Club, a monthly curatorial group listening session at The Rose Hill in Brighton.
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His background in Geography is an inspiration for his current interest in field recording.  Seeking to integrate disciplines, his work explores the relationship between soundscape and landscape. Chris is also a backcountry trekking enthusiast and has travelled extensively in the Eastern Sierra Mountains, the Adirondacks, the upper Canadian Rockies, and the Maya Mountains in Belize.

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The JEL: TDDG Project (2016-2025)

I've been making music under the JEL name for almost a full decade now, but now...it's time to move on to other bigger and better things. I want to thank all the amazing artists I've met along this journey, and I need to express my gratitude towards everyone who supported the project and music that came from it.

Thank you.

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Deradoorian’s new album 'Find The Sun' is out now on ANTI- Records. Purchase and stream at https://deradoorian.ffm.to/findthesun. 

Her first song collection, 2009’s Mind Raft EP elicited praise from Pitchfork for being “passionate and lovingly crafted.” The Fader hailed her “zen weed energy” and “moody dervish spirals.” Her debut LP, The Expanding Flower Planet reflects a remarkable creative journey.
 
Others imitate the past and others divine inspiration and transmit it elsewhere. Deradoorian embodies the latter idea, synthesizing faint hints of Alice Coltrane and Can, Terry Riley, and Dorothy Ashby. A new world springs from ancient traditions—with East Indian, Middle Eastern, traditional Japanese music and Native American rhythms aligned with Deradoorian’s singular orbit. The songs glide through a odyssey of self-exploration—glowing and warping, burning brightly and floating gracefully, permanently transcending.

Even gangsters have lonely blue nights
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Archival label based in Melbourne. No new demos please.

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