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James Ferraro (Rochester, Nueva York, 6 de noviembre de 1986) es un productor de música experimental, compositor y artista contemporáneo estadounidense. Es reconocido por ser uno de los pioneros de los géneros pop hipnagógico y vaporwave, con sus obras explorando temas relacionados con el hiperrealismo y la cultura del consumismo.
James Ferraro (born November 7, 1986) is an American experimental musician, producer, composer and contemporary artist. He has been credited as a pioneer of the 21st century genres hypnagogic pop and vaporwave, with his work exploring themes related to hyperreality and consumer culture.
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Ferraro explained that his original idea had been to release the sixteen compositions on Far Side Virtual as a set of downloadable ringtones, but wanted the songs to have the impact of a complete album. He felt that few would want to purchase the music as a set of ringtones, but said, "Hopefully these songs [will be] made available for ringtone[s] ...
Ferraro created Far Side Virtual with the Apple audio software GarageBand, which brought out the "cheap digital sound" he desired, and called it a "[r]ubbery plastic symphony for global warming, dedicated to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch". He said, "This is ringtone music meant to be experienced on the post-structuralist medium, the smartphone." ...
The album's cover artwork displays a pair of iPads displaying abstract designs (with one placed as a head on a tuxedo), superimposed over a low-resolution image of 6th Avenue in Manhattan as viewed in Google Street View.Explaining the title in an interview, Ferraro said:
Far Side Virtual was announced in May 2011 as Ferraro's first album on the Hippos in Tanks label. The label first released the digital extended play (EP) Condo Pets, which was intended as a preview of the sound of the forthcoming LP. Karen Ka Ying Chan, writer for Dummy, identified the theme of the two releases as Ferraro's "fascination of the surr...
Andy Battaglia compared the feeling of the music to the online virtual world Second Life, the city-building game SimCity, and the work of experimental filmmaker Ryan Trecartin. Adam Harper of Dummy called it a "pastiche [of] a kind of music you never knew you knew existed: techno-capitalist stock promotional music for the era of the personal comput...
Far Side Virtual was met with greater critical attention than Ferraro's previous releases. Just over a year after its release, Marc Masters at Pitchfork wrote that Far Side Virtual "became Ferraro's most discussed and divisive effort, landing on year-end best-of lists as often as it got dismissed as a joke." At Metacritic, which assigns a normalize...
"Linden Dollars" – 1:57"Global Lunch" – 2:13"Dubai Dream Tone" – 1:49"Sim" – 2:53Far Side Virtual at Discogs(list of releases)Far Side Virtual at Hippos in Tanks, via the Internet ArchiveAvatar Salad — the abandoned precursor to Far Side Virtual, via the Internet ArchiveJames Ferraro (born November 7, 1986) is an American experimental musician, producer, composer and contemporary artist. He has been credited as a pioneer of the 21st century genres hypnagogic pop and vaporwave, with his work exploring themes related to hyperreality and consumer culture.
Human Story 3 is a studio album by American electronic musician James Ferraro, self-released on June 14, 2016. Displaying a turn towards the style and aesthetic of modern classical , the album's concept revolves philosophically and structurally on how technology that can be used meaningfully is often used less usefully for commerce ...
About James Ferraro. Somewhere between a manic troubadour, a conceptual artist and a journalist of the Apocalypse, American experimental electronic musician James Ferraro’s albums have...
James Ferraro is one half of The Skaters, one half of Lamborghini Crystal and the contemporary underground’s favourite alchemist. He was born in Rochester, New York and is currently living in Venice Beach, California U.S.A. Underground musician/comp.. Read more.
