Shoeg is an audio-visual artist based in Barcelona. A very curious blend of video, landscape art and ambient sound, that is alluring as well as unsettling. Visibly inspired by video-game imagery and 3-dimensional fractals set inside imaginary landscapes, painted with ambient, melodic down tempo music. A far-cry from the often one dimensional 4/4 world of hard boiled EDM. Very reminiscent of Boards of Canada as well as harboring on Autechre, Aphex, Miracalix and such modal left-field forms of electronica. The narrative remains hidden as Shoeg weaves his video montages interplayed occasionally by humanoid characters in serene yet cold environments or even building abstract fractal growth. Listening and watching, one feeds off a truly rare and unsettling voyage into previously unrelated if not uncharted vistas. Deconstructing ambient music and abstract imagery can often become a jargon based drill, which often amounts to nothing useful. One can only assume so much or ask the artist as to what is the source of their inspiration or even the outcome of their efforts.

What is ShoeG? (does it have any connection to Shoe-Gazer genre?)

Your background? Before you became an artist?

My father had a synth pop band in the 80s. At home, we had a Yamaha DX7 and Roland D50 synth with an Atari running Cubase 1.0. When I was about 3, fiddling around with the gadgets I felt instantly amazed and connected with sounds. Would be a decade plus later that I got my first computer, a Pentium I ! Primarily I started busting out midi-files like a maniac. Yet sometimes life can be cruel and I had to stop making music around the age of 19. Fortunately, the music bug remained in my brain all this time, and thanks to Ensemble Topogràfic which happened four years ago, I felt confidence, enough to restart my journey into music again.