patten (UK electronic project headed by Damien Roach)

Patten (stylised in lowercase) is the pseudonym of London-based electronic experimental musician and audiovisual artist Damien Roach. Patten began as an electronic music project by Roach under the pseudonym D. While running a record label called Kaleidoscope, he had released music on CD-Rs since 2006. The first official Patten LP Glaqjo Xaacsso was released in September 2011 through the UK label No Pain in Pop. In November 2013 Roach signed to Warp Records, releasing the Eolian Instate EP soon after in an edition of 500 12" picture discs, with artwork by frequent visual collaborator Jane Eastlight (revealed in 2022 via social media by patten to be another pseudonym). February 2014 saw the release of the first LP for Warp, entitled Estoile Naiant. In addition to the LP, 2014 saw Roach release a number of free remixes of music by other artists on his website, called re-edits. In the summer of 2014, Roach began to organise musical events at Power Lunches under the moniker 555-5555. The lineups featured sets from artists such as Logos, Karen Gwyer, Slackk, SFV Acid, Darkstar, Visionist, Fotomachine and Max Tundra. In collaboration with Hisham Bharoocha, Patten contributed to Doug Aitken's "Station to Station" project, recording an EP of new music created from found sound and improvised percussion onsite at the Barbican Centre. Furthermore, Patten has created several remixes for artists like Giorgio Moroder and Björk. In September 2016, Patten's third album Ψ was released with the vocals of a member known as A featuring across the record. In May 2017, Patten released Requiem, a four track digital-only EP, launched with a live audiovisual show at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. September 2019 saw the album Flex released on Patten's 555-5555 imprint, followed by a run of live audiovisual concerts and DJ sets across Europe. In 2020 three Patten albums appeared in quick succession, starting with the beatless album Glow released in July during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was followed in August by Glo))), a heavy metal-inspired alternative version of the previous album. Aegis, the third album of 2020 was released in October, featuring ten tracks of experimental techno. Fact magazine published a mini-documentary on Patten's history in August 2020. Two EPs followed, Burner in 2021 with the track "Eat Smoke" (featuring Antipop Consortium's Beans (rapper)), and 2022's Desire Path EP, making Bleep's Tracks Of The Year with the track "Kiss U". In January 2023, Patten announced Mirage FM, an album made using text-to-audio AI samples, due for release on April 14, 2023, via 555-5555. In November 2017, the 555-5555 agency created a commissioned line of apparel for Dummy magazine. In June 2018, Roach created an online discussion forum, also named 555-5555. Roach has created several audiovisual installations. In January 2018 a Patten installation titled 3049 premiered at Tenderpixel gallery in London. The audiovisual installation "CB-MMXVIII (I’ve been thinking of giving sleeping lessons)" was commissioned and exhibited in December 2018 by Somerset House in London for the Claire Catterall curated exhibition Good Grief, on the enduring influence of Charles Schulz and Peanuts. In 2022, Roach was commissioned by Flat Time House to compose a soundtrack for Boyle Family's 1960s film Beyond Image. The soundtrack was exhibited in a group exhibition called "Gone Fishing", alongside works by John Latham, Marlie Mul, and Boyle Family. The soundtrack was performed live by Patten at Peckham Audio in the summer of 2022. Making creative direction and design under the moniker 555-5555 since 2015, Roach has made numerous projects including the visual world behind Dan Snaith's Jiaolong label and Daphni releases, the visual identity and design for Nathan Fake's Blizzards album, and the live visual show for Caribou's Suddenly album tour. GLAQJO XAACSSO, No Pain in Pop, 2011 Estoile Naiant, Warp, 2014. A limited number included a bonus CD of side A from the Patten cassette tape Ship of Theseus (vol ii). Ψ, Warp, 2016 Flex, 555-5555, 2019 Glow, 555-5555, 2020 GLO))), 555-5555, 2020 Aegis, 555-5555, 2020 Mirage FM, 555-5555, 2023 Eolian Instate, Warp, 2013. Limited to 500 copies. Hisham Bharoocha & patten: June 30th, Vinyl Factory, 2015. Limited to 300 copies. Requiem, Warp, 2017. Burner, 555-5555, 2021. Desire Path, 555-5555, 2022. . Ship of Theseus (Vol II), Warp Records, 2014 3049 (Original Film Soundtrack), 555-5555, 2021 Re-edits vol. 3, Not on label, 2014 Re-edits vol. 1, Not on label, 2014 Re-edits vol. 8, Not on label, 2014 Re-edits vol. 17, Not on label, 2014 Re-edits vol. 2, Not on label, 2016 Re-edits vol. 9, 555-5555, 2018 Re-edits: 54D3, 555-5555, 2020 Re-edits: XM45, 555-5555, 2020[failed verification] My Love Is The Best, Alak, Not On Label, 2011 Hey Sparrow, Peaking Lights, Remixes, Weird World, 2011 Two AM, Hauschka, Salon Des Amateurs Remixes, FatCat, 2012 Keep It Low, The Hundred In The Hands, Keep It Low, Warp, 2012 Most Of Missing, Orphan, Re:, Kaleidoscope, 2013 Remember, Jon Hassell, Remixes 12", All Saints, 2014 Mandan, Harold Budd, ARemixes 12", All Saints, 2014 Silent Ascent, Downliners Sekt, Silent Ascent Remixes, Infiné, 2014 Exxus, Glass Animals, ZABA, Wolf Tone, 2014 Purplehands, Kwes., ilpix., Warp, 2014 Metal Fatigue, Jon Hassell, City: Works Of Fiction, All Saints, 2014 Stonemilker, Björk, One Little Indian, 2015 Delta Antliae, Georgio Moroder and Raney Shokne, Tron Run/r (OST), Sumthing Else Music Works, 2016 Falling Into Me, Let's Eat Grandma, Transgressive, 2018 bEra, J Colleran, Because Music, 2018 Lacuna, Not on label, 2006 There were Horizons, Kaleidoscope, 2007 Sketching the Tesseract, Kaleidoscope, 2008 EDITS, No Pain In Pop, 2011 Ship of Theseus (Vol II): Side A, Warp Records, 2014 '09 tst2, Not on label, 2009 '09 tst, Not on label, 2009 Actual Magic: Welcome to Today, Kaleidoscope, 2016 "Watch: patten 'Say' – The Wire". The Wire Magazine. March 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023. Fox, Charlie (29 September 2011). "patten GLAQJO XAACSSO". The Quietus. Retrieved 4 February 2014. but patten (always lower case, apparently) seems like the proper inheritor of Aphex's crazed, childlike approach to music-making Wichowska, Justyna (26 June 2014). "Encounters: patten". 160grams. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2017. 'One of the key ideas embedded in the whole project in all of its different forms – visible forms, audible forms, spatial forms – is that there is the third person involved in the production of what the work is, and that's the person on the other side of it – the audience member, listener, video watcher, yourself,' [...] 'One of the key aims is to produce materials that are open enough for those people to really become engaged with it in a creative way. So the production of something doesn't really end with the record, or with the video, or with whatever else it might be. It's really once this thing finds its way out into the world, that's when something really begins.' The work that occurs is two-directional: patten invites the audience to co-create the project, and considers the reception and any thoughts or action that result from that reception an inherent part of it. Ashurst, Hari (7 November 2011). "patten GLAQJO XAACSSO". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 25 December 2013. GLAQJO XAACSSO feels like it could exist in a parallel universe name="bulut-selim-the-fade"Bulut, Selim (5 December 2013). "Dollars to Pounds: Interview with patten". The Fader. Retrieved 25 December 2013. Following the release of his debut album, the tongue-twistingly titled GLAQJO XAACSSO, for No Pain in Pop in 2011, patten has found a very appropriate home in Warp Recordings, who released his EOLIAN INSTATE EP last week (November 25th) ... curating releases for his great label, Kaleidoscope "patten signs to Warp, announces EOLIAN INSTATE EP". Fact. 19 November 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013. The camera-shy producer remains