Kyle Bates is a Pacific Northwest based musician, intermedia artist, and writer. Bates is focused on exploring sound in tangible spaces, the bipolar experience, and making personal internal worlds public through sonic metaphor and autofiction techniques; he is influenced by Roland Barthes’s practice of reading the self as text. He plays with themes of memory, shame, detachment, sleep, death, fear, and human connection. His practice has included sound, video, and text-based performances, installations, film and video game scores, and various writings.
