About: This is ART
This is ART features the live musical performance of Art Webb, a skilled bassist and multi-genre electronic producer hailing from Nashville, TN. ART unleashes raw musical creativity in the form of improvised deep sub-bass lines, broken break-beats, and epic synth melodies over an array of self recorded samples and stereophonic soundscapes. The result is a distinctively rich sound, complete with melodic tones and organic structures while paying direct homage to the true underground forms of BASS music.
Art's musical legacy began at the young age of 14, purchasing a 4-track tape recorder and bass guitar to express his new-found ideas after being exposed to Jimi Hendrix's album, "Electric Ladyland". After co-writing two successful songs with female vocalist, LollieVox, Art sold his publishing shares and hand-crafted a computer for music production and recording. He released his first original mixtape CD in 2004, entitled, "Fetal Myth of Psyche". In 2008, Art graduated college for Music Production / Multimedia Design and immediately began touring under the alias, This is ART.
Art's unique interpretation of electronic music has developed grass-roots credibility within two short years, sharing the stage as direct support to Pretty Lights with Adam Deitch in 2010, touring alongside Big Gigantic & Two Fresh, opening for electronic artists Shpongle, Bonobo, Blockhead, EOTO, Infected Mushroom, and Bluetech, collaborating on-stage with artists from groups such as Emancipator, Bass Science, The Malah, Kidsmeal, Truly Grimy, & Colby Buckler of Two Fresh, as well as gaining noteworthy performances at Camp Bisco 9, Pretty Lights Illumination Festival, DexFest 2009 & 2010, Boombutywah Music Festival, and STS9's Official After Party in 2008 with Pnuma Live PA, Eliot Lipp, and Two Fresh. Art owes credit to such musical innovators as Jimi Hendrix, Herbie Hancock and Kurt Cobain, all the way up to Amon Tobin, sub-ID and STS9 for inspiring him to continually push the boundaries of genres in every fashion: drum & bass, hip-hop, grunge, even jazz and dubstep are tools used to breath new life into the forgotten music of the past. There's an undeniable feeling of satisfaction to hear and perceive the kind of experience This is ART creates on stage when a musician attempts to express the inexpressible.