Alex Penney
Alex Penney is a music producer, DJ, and spatial sound artist from BC. His affinity for interesting sounds and immersive environments has led to an intimate relationship with the 4D Sound system at Lobe Studio. Drawing inspiration from funky beats, earthy textures, and warping reality, Penney's work is simultaneously rooted and spacey, blurring the lines between music and environment, invoking reflection and immersion while always returning to something you can nod your head to.
In addition to running Lobe, Penney is a senior engineer at Monarch Studios where’s he’s spent a decade recording, mixing, and producing records. He also DJs regularly around Vancouver, has released music under the name pendamental, has created five full-length spatial sound works for both Lobe and MONOM, produced many collaborative interactive art installations (including four for Bass Coast Festival), volunteered for many different organizations, and obtained bachelors degrees in both Physics and Philosophy from the University of Calgary. His unique background set the course for an interdisciplinary approach to art and music, and informs his 'cross-pollination' creative approach today. He is continually seeking new forms of expression and immersion through sound.
Are You Moving?
A composition that takes motion as its subject, this piece explores place and position by unsettling the listener’s perspective: be it physically or perceptually.
“Are You Moving?” can be heard as an omniscient narrative that suggests a process of transformation; a journey that is motivated by passage between the diverse and populated soundscapes of one’s inner and outer worlds.
