Patrick Liddell
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Patrick Liddell is a composer and video artist living in Chicago. He has his Doctor of Music from Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

, and teaches music composition and theory at DePaul University
DePaul University
DePaul University is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul...

. He has worked with many ensembles within many genres, including The Zvooks (Jump Up! Records),Function Ensemble (Locust Records), Maurice (ears&eyes Records), and the University of Chicago Javanese gamelan. His own music/video is a postmodern blend of 'art' and 'popular' styles, with strong hints of electronic, ethnic, video game, and film music. He regularly performs live and improvised video with many groups in the Chicago area, as well as his own video/music/art under the moniker ontologist. His first audio/video album Arrow To The Sun was released on Canzona Records in 2009.

Liddell is most known for his video art experiment on YouTube "Video Room 1000" an homage
Homage
Homage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more oblique reference, artistic or poetic....

 to Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and...



Patrick Liddell is also known for his audio work and video collaborations on 60x60
60x60
60x60 is a collection of 60 electroacoustic or acousmatic works from 60 different composers/artists, each work 60 seconds or less in duration. 60x60 project showcases sixty new works, each sixty seconds or less, by sixty composers in a continuous sixty minute concert, for a one-hour cross-section...

. In 2009, he created the 60x60 Video collaboration for the 60x60 2009 International Mix. In 2010 he created more than 360 one minute videos in a collaboration with the project that included 6 hour long videos for the project's 6 different "RED" mixes. The screening of this collaboration at the Outsound Festival was hailed by Jason Victor Serinus Special to The Examiner, "Expect it to stretch whatever boundaries you may not have thought you had."

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