Dax Pierson
2019
On the album Live in Oakland, Dax Pierson blends elements from hip hop, dance music, experimental electronic music, and free improv/radio art into an idiosyncratic electronic style. “Don’t take your physical abilities for granted, for you can lose them, with a snap of the neck,” chants Pierson on the opening track, which sets the tone for an uncompromisingly honest meditation on life with spinal cord injury. On other tracks, Pierson offers dense, complex balancing acts of IDM and musique concrète as he samples and sequences the sounds of the medical equipment and motorised wheelchair that has been a part of his life since a 2005 car accident.