ARP

Arp, has been making waves in the sound-art and electronic music scene in New York and beyond for well over a decade. Unashamedly eclectic in his approach, his evolution as an artist operating initially within the airy textures of analogue synths of 2010’s or the same year’s deeply textural acoustic-ambient collaborations with Slapp Happy’s Anthony embarking upon a more overtly jazzier area. “I don’t even know what ‘jazz’ means in a way,” he says, “I’ve always been most into people like Don Cherry, Alice Coltrane; people that are I suppose closer to the cosmic jazz side of things or what they used to call ‘world jazz’ – people that were into either intentionally breaking confines or just being natural and not letting preconceptions about what you’re to do actually guide what you do.”