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Syntax Error: 2007 -> Present Syntax Error is an experimental music and media project based in Toronto, Canada. Producing dark, downtempo ambient music and stunning psychedelic visuals, Syntax Error consistently attempts to find new experimental ways to produce and perform music. On an ongoing basis, a variety of guest musicians jam, record, and perform with Syntax Error, however after the recent departure of bassist and technologist Tony Ferreira, Joshua Hemming is now the sole member of the group. The Syntax Error Project: 1999 -> 2007 In 1999, Joshua Hemming teamed up with Tony Ferreira, a bassist with a penchant for unusual and experimental methods of sound design and composition. Since then, Syntax Error has been exploring different aspects of the ambient, downtempo and industrial genres in an attempt at creating a new kind of dark groove. Between rare live shows, Syntax Error produced a bi-monthly series of improvisational thirty-minute releases called "Pretentious Ambient Noise". (download) This series of releases has garnered the project a modest but faithful following in countries around the world, particularly in China and Iran. SYN~164: 1996 -> 1999 When ISG broke up in 1996, Joshua Hemming continued to produce industrial-techno music as SYN164. With a variety of synthesizers and drum machines in the studio, he spent three years exploring the psychedelic side of industrial and trance. Producing three albums over three years, Joshua fondly looks back at this time as his most musically productive and educational. Icky Sticky GOO (ISG): 1993 -> 1996 Joshua Hemming began composing electronic music in 1993 with no more than an Ensoniq ESQ1, a Macintosh computer and the software sequencer "Studio Vision Pro". Originally only intending to produce basic drumbeats to aid in bass practice, he quickly became interested in the possibilities of electronic composition. After meeting guitarist & percussionist John Down in the spring of 1995, he purchased a Yamaha SY85 synth workstation and they teamed up to create the industrial-techno act "Icky Sticky GOO". After several unusual live performances, ISG broke up. John Down went on to explore collaborative percussive performances, and Joshua Hemming continued making industrial-techno as the solo act "SYN164". |
Syntax Error is an experimental music and
media project based in Toronto, Canada.
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