Steven Ford
location . Seattle, US
personal website . undosounds.com

While establishing his rep as Seattle’s foremost sculptor of powerful, electronic abstractions, Ford dabbled with dance music production under the Bruno Pronsato moniker.

Latest news
» forthcoming 12" releases on Philpot Records - php 013 - Release July 2005
» forthcoming 4x 12" series on Telegraph Records, entitled 'The Lime Works Vol.1-4'. First release is - tel 021 - scheduled release for July
» Adjunct Records compilation - Adjunct Records, Vol.1 - release August - featuring tracks by John Tejada, Pheek, [a]pendics.shuffle & Bruno Pronsato

Discography
orac 05 . Bruno Pronsato - Read Me/Silver City (12") Orac 2003
orac 09 . Bruno Pronsato - Silver Cities (2x12"/CD) Orac
risque 006 . Bruno Pronsato - Ape Masquerade (12") Musique Risquée april 2005
orac 15 . Bruno Pronsato - Wuorinen b/w Live In Cascadia (12") Orac june 2005

Biography

In another lifetime, Bruno Pronsato (Seattle producer Steven Ford) drummed for Texas speed-metal/punks Voice Of Reason. But then he had his head split open by My Bloody Valentine, Gang Of Four, Electric Company, death-metal titans like Venom, Slayer, and Napalm Death. “My childhood was filled with music, but [Slayer’s] Haunting the Chapel and Hell Awaits just somehow transported me to some weirder level,” Ford recounts. “It somehow made it okay to just be as free as possible with music. And from the time I was 14 or 15, it was a steady process of finding out and getting deeper and deeper into people who were, in my opinion, really shaping the future of music.”

After Voice Of Reason split, there followed a period of musical disenchantment, during which Ford moved to Seattle in 1998. There he commenced making computer-based music. Incorporating the above influences along with inspiration from European atonalists like Anton Webern and Arnold Schoenberg, Ford gravitated toward microsound, taking the name Bobby Karate to chop out intricately designed glitchscapes that unpredictably fizz and crackle like the best output from the Raster-Noton and Mille Plateaux labels.

While establishing his rep as Seattle’s foremost sculptor of powerful, electronic abstractions, Ford dabbled with dance music production under the Bruno Pronsato moniker. What began as a lubricious lark to get the ladies bumpin’ and grindin’ became Ford’s primary obsession. Over the last year, Bruno’s live sets emerged as fist-pumping demonstrations of heady sound design and hedonism. ...

... “One of the reasons techno or minimal techno is such a force in my life,” Ford says, “is because it is music that is working with a predefined set of rules, namely 4/4 time. Much like the 12-tone composers who had to work within their tone rows, techno producers are also working within a set of boundaries. I think it's quite a challenge to come up with something creative within a set of pre-established rules. It makes me think a little harder about what I can do.” ...
written by Dave Segal