Jason Sloan:

Jason Sloan is an electronic musician, composer, video and sound artist practicing in Baltimore, Md. His sound and video work explores immateriality and its relationship to memory, systems and unseen realities.

In 2011 Jason began working under the moniker L’Avenir. This project explores Sloan’s long time love of dark synth and minimal wave music. L’Avenir’s music is created purely from analog, modular and/or vintage synthesizer equipment and has released multiple albums on Barcelona’s Cold Beats Records, Germany’s EINS:ZWEI:ACHT and Beläten in Sweden. L’Avenir continues to release LPs, perform live around the world and has now become Sloan’s main creative project.

Sloan received his BFA from Edinboro University and his MFA from Towson University. His sound installations and video art have been exhibited internationally. In addition to releasing over a twenty studio albums and E.P.’s over the last two decades, Sloan has played live all over the US, Canada and Europe including the influential Live Constructions radio program at Columbia University, Berlin’s Liquid Sky TV, STEIM in Amsterdam, CMMAS in Morelia, and Philadelphia’s The Gatherings concert series; one of the country’s oldest continuing electronic music series in the world.

Sloan is Chair of the Interactive Arts department and founder/program director of the Sound Art minor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.