Jarrod Fowler

March 21, 2008

EITHER/AND/OR/BOTH: A Fragment of Listening
By WTF
Aesthete - Editor - Ethicist

JARROD FOWLER (b. 1980) is a conceptual noise artist. This ill-defined designation places his work in the company of musicians/artists/writers such as JLIAT, Kenneth Goldsmith, GX Jupitter-Larsen, and Simon Morris. Fowler's work seeks to reflexively question the ontology of "rhythm" through solo and collaborative projects. These explorations trace the (non-)movement of the physical and the conceptual, and attempt to focus upon assumptions and variables. Fowler is a studied percussionist with roots in hip hop beat-making. This background has informed his techniques, most notably the amplification of the percussive nature of the theoretical through context-specific appropriation.

Jarrod Fowler's publications occupy a unique niche between the worlds of experimental music & artist's books. Fowler's debut CD, Translation As Rhythm, was published by Errant Bodies Press (2006), and served as that label's first CD-only release. His second CD, 'Percussion' As Percussion, was published by information as material (2008), and similarly was that publisher's first CD release.

The year of 2008 has brought Fowler's first international performance (Instal 08, Glasgow) and will see Jarrod exhibiting a "reading" of Friedrich Kittler's Gramophone, Film, Typewriter at the Tate Modern. In addition to this sample-based work, Fowler will continue his "rhythm" studies through projects utilizing the works of Søren Kierkegaard (Either/Or, Repetition), Friedrich Nietzsche (Thought of the Eternal Return of the Same), and Gilles Deleuze (Difference & Repetition).