Pas Musique started in 1995 out of Brooklyn, NY, USA, driven by the creative talents of Robert L. Pepper working in the mediums of sound and video. Since then Pas Musique has evolved into a collective with many different instrumentations and lineups. Permanent members include Jon “Vomit” Worthley, Jesse Fairbiarn, Michael Durek, and Robert Pepper. Pas Musique is a group which creates output through the form of abstract sound. The term ‘Pas Musique’ translates to ‘not music’ in French, metaphorically negating everything that is established in music and starts from a clean perspective. The viewpoint fuels our creativity to create our own world of beauty. The aesthetic underpinnings are defined by the notion that music can be whatever the ear perceives. It’s a conception fueled by the love of life and art. It’s a desire for honest artistic self-expression.

Rinus van Alebeek is editor of Staalzine, responsible for Staalplaat's Staaltape, founder of Radio On, radiomaker/editor, artistic director of Porticello Artist Residencies and writer. He has a knack for revealing the hidden aspects and traces of modern life with his questing microphones and glitchy cassette tapes, resulting in magical-realist documents that seem dreamlike in their vividness and impossible beauty. Instead of telling us something, it always seems that Rinus is trying to find out things, exploring or discovering an aspect of the world which he regards as a mystery, and not proceeding with any foregone conclusions in mind. http://rinusvanalebeek.com