stAllio! biography
stAllio! is an Indianapolis-based independent artist who works in new media and music—both under his own name and with the band he founded, Animals Within Animals. He is best known for sample-based music and for his experiments with databending and glitch art.His latest music release is the post-mashup album A Huge Smash, available for free download from Bad Taste Music Exchange. With this album stAllio! takes the mashup aesthetic to the next level, shattering pop music history into tiny-but-still-recognizable fragments and rearranging them in increasingly complex ways. The result is a new style, decidedly glitchy and even danceable, but 100% appropriated—the sampling techniques of John Oswald meet the skittery beats of Jackson and His Computer Band.
He's also a proponent and pioneer of databending—the creative misuse of digital information in ways other than was intended—regularly incorporating sonified data files into his music, and even making music composed exclusively of such sounds. Before long, he started applying similar techniques to the visual arts, making a name for himself in the emerging field of glitch art. His work manipulating photos using Microsoft Wordpad was recently profiled in Wired UK, and his databending tutorials have been cited as an influence by many in the field.
