Robin Storey

Robin Storey (* 1955 in Cumbria ) is a British musician , painter , graphic artist and media artist .

Life

Robin Storey grew up in Cumbria in the far north west of England . As a child he spent a lot of time in nature and in the landscapes of his homeland. These experiences of nature have been his permanent inspiration to this day. At school he began to draw and paint. In 1973 he studied art at the Carlisle College of Art and Design. After completing his undergraduate studies, he studied art at Sunderland College of Art and Design from 1974, from which he graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts. During his time at university, he lived a very secluded life, suffered from depression and was temporarily addicted to heroin. From 1977 to 1989 Storey then studied and taught graphics and letterpress printing at Charlotte Press in Newcastle upon Tyne . Charlotte Press was an open artist workshop teaching almost all artistic printing techniques such as etching, lithography, woodcut, etc. The successor to this project is now Northern Print. In 1979 Storey co-founded the industrial band Zoviet France in Newcastle . From 1979 to 1994 he worked for regional media companies, sometimes as an employee, sometimes on a self-employed basis. During this time he learned techniques such as camera work, video editing and animation and began to work as a media artist. From 2003 to 2004 he went back to college and received a Masters in Creative Music Technology from the University of Newcastle. In 2007, he began writing a novel that will be published in 2012.

Robin Storey lives near Newcastle upon Tyne. He is married and has two children.

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Robin Storey usually works with several media at the same time, which then complement each other. He deals with sounds, nature, indigenous and prehistoric cultures, theories about extraterrestrial life and paranormal phenomena. Up until the founding of Zoviet France and later Rapoon, Storey focused on painting, and since then on music.

Painting and graphics

Storey's work is characterized by the use of many ethnic and spiritual symbols. After studying art, Storey was instrumental in designing the covers of Zoviet France. Already at this point, he made sure that the content of the music was matched by the design of the sound carrier. He also creates the publications of his solo project Rapoon on his own, the use of symbols comes to the fore here even more clearly. The paintings by Storey, with their numerous inspirations from nature and the culture of indigenous or historical peoples, are most likely to be assigned to primitivism or abstract expressionism . His paintings have been exhibited in the USA, the former USSR, England, Norway and Germany. Two of his works hang in the Museum of Modern Art in Berlin, other paintings in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

Media art

Storey came to media art through painting and graphics. With the triumph of affordable and powerful computer hardware and software in the 1990s, this aspect came to the fore in his visual work. Storey produces his own abstract short films. A selection of six short films appeared in 2005 on the DVD Alien Glyph Morphology under the band name Rapoon .

music

Robin Storey is a self-taught musical artist. Although he had a great interest in music from an early age, he didn't start making music until he was around 20 years old. In the mid-seventies he appeared for the first time in a band as a musician: he is named as an instrumentalist in the Phoenix Tapes of the Stone Premonitions. At the university he was taking courses in electronic and experimental composition with Dave Pinder. At that time Storey was influenced by Musique concrète , Karlheinz Stockhausen and German Krautrock bands like Neu! , Can , Faust and Kraftwerk . In 1979 he co-founded the avant-garde industrial band Zoviet France. There he remained an influential member until 1992. In that year, after internal disputes, he left Zoviet France and founded his solo project Rapoon, which has published over 40 records to date. Two of his loops are the best-selling on Sony Media.

In addition to his own project Rapoon, Storey works with two former colleagues from Zoviet France in the formation Reformed Faction, with Nigel Ayers from Nocturnal Emissions on Hank and Slim and with Andrew Diey on The Cult of the Sun Moon. Storey also creates soundtracks for films such as The Three Trials by Randy Greif and Effaced by Nadine Shamounki. In 2011 Storey produced the music and visual design for a dance performance by Johanna Devi at London's Bloomsbury Theater.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Read up on the Rapoon website ( memento of the original from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Painting by Storey
• Storey biography