Artists > Bruno Pronsato
Upcoming Gigs
Nov 16 - The Villa, Oslo
Nov 30 - Panorama Bar, Berlin
Dec 15 - Club Jam, Bergara
Dec 21 - Q Club, Zurich
Dec 25 - Harry Klein, Munchen
Jan 05 - Palace, Marseille
Jan 13 - Freak N Chic, Paris
Jan 18 - P3P, Brussels
Jan 24 - Moscow
Jan 25 - City Fox, Zurich
Jan 26 - Bari, Italy
Feb 01 - Panorama Bar, Berlin
Feb 02 - Tenax, Florence, Italy
Feb 05 - Milan
Feb 16 - Watergate, Berlin
Feb 21 - La Ruche, Lausanne, Switzerland
Feb 22 - Bocal, Crans Montana, Switzerland
Feb 23 - Rex, Paris
Feb 29 - Sunsui, Osaka, Japan
Feb 16 - Yellow, Tokyo
Apr 18 - Minneapolis
Apr 19 - Communikey, Boulder, CO
Apr 25 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Apr 26 - Los Angeles
Seattle producer Bruno Pronsato (aka Steven
Ford) took several giant steps in 2005 toward the peak of the experimental
techno mountain. Both on vinyl and onstage, Pronsato kept up a hectic
pace of production and performance, catalyzing listeners and crowds
in Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Mexico, throughout the United States,
and a triumphant set at Montreal’s Mutek festival. Twelve-inches on esteemed labels
like Orac, Musique Risquée, Milnor Modern, Philpot, and Telegraph
further elevated his stature and built his international fan base.
A sound scientist whose work is equally
playful and rigorous, Pronsato deploys a canny use of space and idiosyncratically
fashioned rhythms to disorient and build suspense—like some 21st-century Miles
Davis or Eric Dolphy of the laptop. Despite being a minimal-techno
artist, Pronsato offers a palette that’s as full of unexpected
patterns and meticulously rendered textures as a Wassily Kandinsky
painting.
Pronsato’s compositions unsettle in
original ways, yet they also slyly tickle funnybones. Often both
humorous and erotic,
his cuts are the wild cards that adventurous DJs pull out when they
want to take the dance floor to strange new levels of motion. Therefore,
Pronsato’s releases have become elite selectors’ secret
weapons of beguilingly baffling quirkiness that still move asses.
Unsurprisingly, 2006 is promising to be
as eventful as last year. As demand for his music has waxed, Pronsato
has accordingly increased his productivity while maintaining his
usual exacting quality control standards. March will bring Pronsato’s
debut 12 for Hello? Repeat while summer 2006 will see EPs issued
by Orac and Telegraph (watch for the last two editions of the four-part Limeworks series),
plus another collaboration with Argentinean Franco Cinelli for Milnor
Modern (Picaro, their first joint effort from late ’05,
contains some of Pronsato’s most flavorful club bangers). A temporary
residence in Holland will enable Pronsato to spend even more time in
2006 devastating European audiences with his uniquely psychedelic and
funky techno live sets.
