Biography
Having roots in 'avant-garde' music creation in the late 60's, provided Pax Alpha, aka Geoff Nossiter, with a taste for the extreme regions of the sonic landscape. Playing improvised acoustic guitar, in the infamous Iconolatre Jazz Club in Hartlepool, Northern England, gave Geoff a taste for experimentalism.
Sadly, the guitars are long gone having been replaced during the 80's by a succession of analogue and digital devices through to the present day in which a wide variety of computer based sound tools are used to create a highly varied palette, fusing organic 'found sounds', with a mix of self produced loops and live improvisations blending rhythmic, glitchy and interesting synthetic textures together with cinematic and melodic elements.
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Currently, the vast majority of his output originates predominantly from a mix of software and hardware synthesizers, various digital signal processing effects and pure computer based manipulation.
Pax Alpha's genre is in the area of Ambient, IDM and Electro – with melodic elements woven into a mix of cyber-soundscapes and experimental electronics.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.