auditory sculpture

Ambient / Drum n' Bass / Hip Hop

Portland, OR

Billboard

For nine years, Keith Schreiners electronic music and experimental auditory sculptures have been the backbone of Portlands ever-burgeoning electronic/dj scene. His wildly successful days in Dahlia (five years of packed Tuesday nights at the Ohm) were only the starting point into a career that has included numerous production, albums, and collaboration opportunities. During downtime from Dahlia, Schreiner helmed the six-piece future jazz project The Down Band featuring Nate Query (The Decemberists) on bass, DJs IZM and Venom 33, and local jazz maestro Derek Simms on trumpet. It also saw guests such as jeff trott and michael elzondo. During that time Schreiner also worked under his solo guise as Auditory Sculpture.

Auditory Sculpture began as a creative playground for Schreiner where he could test, pull, and meld beats and sounds. Some of which would later show up in Dahlia and other artists work. The music that Schreiner kept for himself became the three albums of Auditory Sculptures discography Solitary From (1999), That Might Be You But This is Me (2001), and Merge (2002). In December of 06 , after a four-year break, SChreiner released his fourth Auditory Sculpture album, Sessions at East.

Over the past year and a half, Portlands East Chinatown Lounge, hosted Schreiners Auditory Sculpture project on a weekly basis. The relationship was perfect. The uber-swank lounge sans stage setting at East allowed Schreiner the vibe he needed to compose ideas, explore new sounds, and create a chill ambience for the drinking crowd. Schreiner found inspiration for these dj sets through the work he has done with various artists over the past four years.

For Schreiner those past four years found the demise of Dahlia, the invention a new sociopolitical hip-hop group Suckapunch and increased production work for various local artists including the latest Storm and the Balls remix record, Hush recording artist Corrina Repps latest, and Portland favorite Nicole Campbells last album. Schreiner also busied himself with film scores and commercial music. It was from this work that Schreiner began to compile the elements of what would become Sessions at East.

The DJ performance sessions at East were (and still are) a random juxtaposition of elements from his production career and the creative mind behind them; for instance accapella tracks layered upon beats upon bass lines, etc... In one track alone Schreiner throws on a beat from a Nicole Campbell track, an accappella vocal track from Portlands best MC Mic Crenshaw, a keyboard line from Storm and the Balls keys player James Beaton, a chorus riff from R&B singer Ray Frazier, etc It was from this that Schreiner set to the studio to for his fourth solo record. Guests on the album include Storm Large, Mic Crenshaw, and Nicole Campbell. The record transcends deep dark trip-hop and aggressive drum n bass, while occasionally veering into a poppy acoustic side rarely seen from Schreiner

Its been a four-year wait but with the release of Sessions at East, Auditory Sculpture is back in the game.

SESSIONS AT EAST