Module (Musician)
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Module was created in 2003 by Award Winning Wellington
-based New Zealand
Multi-instrumentalist
/Producer
Jeramiah Ross. He performs and records a variety of musical styles from electro, downtempo
, ambient
, classical
and synthesizer
-based compositions, taking full advantage of the advances in modern audio software. He has been involved music since he was four years old with classical piano, playing different instruments in bands during his teens and various studio session work in his early 20s. Recently Jeramiah has branched into video game soundtracks and sound design.
and began touring around New Zealand and Australia. During this time he was signed to New Zealand based record label LOOP Recordings and released his debut double album Remarkable Engines with the bonus Piano disk Movement which sold moderately well. One track from his album What it seems was picked up by 'Positivitly Wellington Tourism' as the theme music for the widely popular Have a love affair with Wellington campaign, which received hi rotate for over three years on nationwide television and radio. Rhian Sheehan and Module went on to tour for two years, performing at many festivals from Rainbow Serpent
, Splore and countless performances around New Zealand and Australia.
In 2006 Jeramiah joined Fly My Pretties
and performed his own acoustic piano compositions "Oh Fair Moonlight" and "Rain" for 16 sell-out shows around New Zealand theaters cumulating in the release of a CD/DVD which sold over 10,000 copies in New Zealand. In one of the last performances for Fly My Pretties he played "Rain" in the Auckland Town Hall
on the 3 story high pipe organ
.
In 2006 he independently released a full-length free ambient album Dreams for the sleepless on archive.org which has had over 11,000 downloads.
Between 2006 to 2009 Module toured New Zealand performing hundreds of shows at bars and festivals with both his Electronic and Classical Music.
In 2008 Module Left LOOP recordings and became an Independent Artist with a new publishing deal with Mushroom Publishing.
In 2008 he independently released Pattern dot life version 1.0 which is a 3 part internet based musical project with part 1 being a free live 13 track album recorded in October 2008 and open source remix packs. Part 2 is produced versions of Part 1 along with featured user remixes and part 3 a new live recording sometime in the future. http://www.patterndotlife.co.nz. 2008 also saw module produce singles and remixes for NZ Band 'Charlie Ash'
2009 Module worked with Wellington's Sidhe Interactive
on an original 15 track soundtrack for the ps3 game Shatter along with most of the in game sound design. Shatter was released on the PlayStation Network July the 23rd 2009. Shatter The Game & the Video Game Soundtrack has been receiving high worldwide praise scoring 9.5 on IGN. the soundtrack was released on bandcamp as a free live stream and mp3 digital download on July 24, 2009 receiving over 100,000 hits in 2 weeks, http://www.sidhe.bandcamp.com Shatter has gone on to win many awards and best video soundtrack of 2009 with many outlets.
as the in-house Composer and Sound designer and has worked on several hi-profile video games for PS3 and iOS.
He is involved in a project called Immram - Voyage of the Corvus Corrone as a Music Producer. The project appears to be a full length album with a 64 page book released by Escape Artist Recordings in June 2011.
He is also involved as a co-producer in another project called "The Blush Response"
, a Novation SL,Korg x-50, MS2000 and various outboard hardware to re-create his studio recordings. He splits up his songs into numbers which are triggered from a MIDI Keyboard, along with performing live keyboard parts on top, playing guitar and using various forms of vocal processing. He does not DJ and he performs only his own music, making him closer to a one man band. He also performs his solo piano works. He makes use of VJ's and design elements within his performances, creating a MIDI Synced visual/audio show using modul8
, Resolume. Recently Module has been working with musician's to create a live band interpretation of his music.
2006 – Dreams for the Sleepless (Free 74min Ambient CD)
2008 – Pattern Dot Life Version 1.0 (Free 13 track live album)
2009 – Shatter – The Official Video Game Soundtrack
2009 – Movement (re-issue) digital only
2011 Monsters Ate my Condo – iOS (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
2011 Rugby Challenge – PS3/XBOX 360/PC (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
2010 Zen Puzzle Garden - iOS (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
2010 Blood Drive – PS3/XBOX 360 (Lead Sound Designer)
2010 Flick Kick Football - iOS (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
2010 Flick Kick Chelsea - iOS (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
2010 Birdstrike - iOS (Lead Sound Designer, Voice Actor)
2009 Hotwheels Battle Force 5- Nintendo Wii (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
2009 Shatter – PS3/PC (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
Managa Power
Fault-lines (Feat Paul Mclaney)
Twilight Stolen (Benny Tones – Full Moon D&B remix)
Immram – Voyage of the Corvus Corrone (Album Music Producer) 2011
The Blush Response – Love Electric 2011 (Co-Producer)
Acoustic Paino: Rhian Sheehan – Standing in silence.
Acoustic Paino & Fender Roads – The Return of Fly My Pretties.
Synthesizers, Programming, Production, Mixing & Backing vocal – The Blush Response – Love Electric
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
-based New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Multi-instrumentalist
Multi-instrumentalist
A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists.-Classical music:Music written for Symphony...
/Producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
Jeramiah Ross. He performs and records a variety of musical styles from electro, downtempo
Downtempo
Downtempo is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a beat or groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music. The beat is sometimes made from loops that have a hypnotic feeling...
, ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
, classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
and synthesizer
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
-based compositions, taking full advantage of the advances in modern audio software. He has been involved music since he was four years old with classical piano, playing different instruments in bands during his teens and various studio session work in his early 20s. Recently Jeramiah has branched into video game soundtracks and sound design.
Module History
Jeramiah Ross created Module as a solo recording project in 2003. After his first two single releases, Module joined forces with Rhian SheehanRhian Sheehan
Rhian Sheehan is a New Zealand music composer and producer born in Nelson and now based in Wellington.Sheehan released his first album in 2001 Paradigm Shift, and has since released two albums as well as a compilation of remixes of his work by other New Zealand and international artists...
and began touring around New Zealand and Australia. During this time he was signed to New Zealand based record label LOOP Recordings and released his debut double album Remarkable Engines with the bonus Piano disk Movement which sold moderately well. One track from his album What it seems was picked up by 'Positivitly Wellington Tourism' as the theme music for the widely popular Have a love affair with Wellington campaign, which received hi rotate for over three years on nationwide television and radio. Rhian Sheehan and Module went on to tour for two years, performing at many festivals from Rainbow Serpent
Rainbow Serpent
The Rainbow Serpent is a common motif in the art and mythology of Aboriginal Australia. It is named for the snake-like meandering of water across a landscape and the colour spectrum caused when sunlight strikes water at an appropriate angle relative to the observer.The Rainbow Serpent is seen as...
, Splore and countless performances around New Zealand and Australia.
In 2006 Jeramiah joined Fly My Pretties
Fly My Pretties
Fly My Pretties is a collaboration of musicians from Wellington, New Zealand that only records live albums, in various locations in New Zealand. The different musical backgrounds of the members make for an eclectic mix of songs on their releases...
and performed his own acoustic piano compositions "Oh Fair Moonlight" and "Rain" for 16 sell-out shows around New Zealand theaters cumulating in the release of a CD/DVD which sold over 10,000 copies in New Zealand. In one of the last performances for Fly My Pretties he played "Rain" in the Auckland Town Hall
Auckland Town Hall
The Auckland Town Hall is a historic building on Queen Street in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, known both for its original and ongoing use for administrative functions , as well as for its famed Great Hall and its separate Concert Chamber...
on the 3 story high pipe organ
Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...
.
In 2006 he independently released a full-length free ambient album Dreams for the sleepless on archive.org which has had over 11,000 downloads.
Between 2006 to 2009 Module toured New Zealand performing hundreds of shows at bars and festivals with both his Electronic and Classical Music.
In 2008 Module Left LOOP recordings and became an Independent Artist with a new publishing deal with Mushroom Publishing.
In 2008 he independently released Pattern dot life version 1.0 which is a 3 part internet based musical project with part 1 being a free live 13 track album recorded in October 2008 and open source remix packs. Part 2 is produced versions of Part 1 along with featured user remixes and part 3 a new live recording sometime in the future. http://www.patterndotlife.co.nz. 2008 also saw module produce singles and remixes for NZ Band 'Charlie Ash'
2009 Module worked with Wellington's Sidhe Interactive
Sidhe Interactive
Sidhe is a game development studio based in Wellington, New Zealand.Sidhe is an officially licensed developer for Microsoft , Sony Computer Entertainment Europe , and Nintendo of America . It is also a co-founding member of the New Zealand Game Developers Association...
on an original 15 track soundtrack for the ps3 game Shatter along with most of the in game sound design. Shatter was released on the PlayStation Network July the 23rd 2009. Shatter The Game & the Video Game Soundtrack has been receiving high worldwide praise scoring 9.5 on IGN. the soundtrack was released on bandcamp as a free live stream and mp3 digital download on July 24, 2009 receiving over 100,000 hits in 2 weeks, http://www.sidhe.bandcamp.com Shatter has gone on to win many awards and best video soundtrack of 2009 with many outlets.
Present
Currently Jeramiah works full time at Sidhe InteractiveSidhe Interactive
Sidhe is a game development studio based in Wellington, New Zealand.Sidhe is an officially licensed developer for Microsoft , Sony Computer Entertainment Europe , and Nintendo of America . It is also a co-founding member of the New Zealand Game Developers Association...
as the in-house Composer and Sound designer and has worked on several hi-profile video games for PS3 and iOS.
He is involved in a project called Immram - Voyage of the Corvus Corrone as a Music Producer. The project appears to be a full length album with a 64 page book released by Escape Artist Recordings in June 2011.
He is also involved as a co-producer in another project called "The Blush Response"
Module Live
Module uses computers, samplers, and synthesizers in his live performances, using PC computers running Ableton LiveAbleton Live
Ableton Live is a loop-based software music sequencer and DAW for Mac OS and Windows by Ableton. The latest major release of Live, Version 8, was released in April 2009. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for...
, a Novation SL,Korg x-50, MS2000 and various outboard hardware to re-create his studio recordings. He splits up his songs into numbers which are triggered from a MIDI Keyboard, along with performing live keyboard parts on top, playing guitar and using various forms of vocal processing. He does not DJ and he performs only his own music, making him closer to a one man band. He also performs his solo piano works. He makes use of VJ's and design elements within his performances, creating a MIDI Synced visual/audio show using modul8
Modul8
Modul8 is a software for live visual performance developed by GarageCube, a company established in 2005 by Yves Schmid and Boris Edelstein, based in Geneva, Switzerland...
, Resolume. Recently Module has been working with musician's to create a live band interpretation of his music.
Albums
2006 – Remarkable Engines + Bonus CD Movement2006 – Dreams for the Sleepless (Free 74min Ambient CD)
2008 – Pattern Dot Life Version 1.0 (Free 13 track live album)
2009 – Shatter – The Official Video Game Soundtrack
2009 – Movement (re-issue) digital only
Video Game Soundtracks/Sound Design
2011 Slam Dunk King- iOS (Lead Sound Designer/Music Co-Producer)2011 Monsters Ate my Condo – iOS (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
2011 Rugby Challenge – PS3/XBOX 360/PC (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
2010 Zen Puzzle Garden - iOS (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
2010 Blood Drive – PS3/XBOX 360 (Lead Sound Designer)
2010 Flick Kick Football - iOS (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
2010 Flick Kick Chelsea - iOS (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
2010 Birdstrike - iOS (Lead Sound Designer, Voice Actor)
2009 Hotwheels Battle Force 5- Nintendo Wii (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
2009 Shatter – PS3/PC (Lead Sound Designer/Composer)
Singles
What It SeemsManaga Power
Fault-lines (Feat Paul Mclaney)
Twilight Stolen (Benny Tones – Full Moon D&B remix)
Producer
Charlie Ash – Come back lover (Single) 2009Immram – Voyage of the Corvus Corrone (Album Music Producer) 2011
The Blush Response – Love Electric 2011 (Co-Producer)
Credits
Synths & Samplers: Benny Tones, Earth Tones, ChrysalisAcoustic Paino: Rhian Sheehan – Standing in silence.
Acoustic Paino & Fender Roads – The Return of Fly My Pretties.
Synthesizers, Programming, Production, Mixing & Backing vocal – The Blush Response – Love Electric
External links
- Official Website http://www.module.co.nz
- Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/modulenz
- Twitter http://www.twitter.com/modulenz
- Soundcloud http://www.soundcloud.com/modulenz
- Bandcamp (Music Store) http://www.module.bandcamp.com