Joe Boyd Vigil

Infobox musical artist


Name = Joe Boyd Vigil
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Background = solo_singer
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Born = 1973 (age 35)
Origin = flagicon|United States Boston, Massachusetts
Genre = Electronic
Grind House
Occupation = Musician, Sound Designer
Years_active = 1994 - present
Instrument = drums
Keyboard
Label = Rhino
Associated_acts = kRYPToPS
Current_members = Joe Boyd Vigil
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URL = [http://www.myspace.com/joeboydvigil]

Joe Boyd Vigil is a Boston-based sound designer and composer of electronic music.

History

Early years and early employment

While studying film and video production at the Massachusetts College of Art in the Studio for Interrelated Media program, Vigil soon found that he took more pleasure from the creation of his soundtracks than the visuals. Some of his later film projects prominently featured many dark or totally black scenes that forced the audience to focus on the sound exclusively.

Joe Boyd Vigil's first venture into professional music production after college came about when he was hired by Turner Network Television through Bair Tracks to design several tracks of music for promos and commercial bumpers. In 1997 he was approached by Toonami to begin producing music for the revamped Toonami programming block on Cartoon Network. He continued to produce new music for the network until some time in early 2002.

During this phase of his career (1997-2002), he produced close to a hundred tracks for Turner, dozens of which were featured prominently on Cartoon Network during the Toonami programming block. Some were made available on the official Toonami website for download, while a CD of expanded remixes was released on the CD ' in 2001. [http://the.toonmaster.googlepages.com/interview_j.boydvigil Interview with sound designer Joe Boyd Vigil] ] Also, in 2003, DJ Clarknova took old, new, and unreleased Toonami tracks, several of which were Vigil's, and mixed them into the 21-track '.

Recent history to present

In 2004, Vigil was hired as Chief Audio Engineer at Soup2Nuts, where he designed for such shows as Time Warp Trio and O'Grady.Vigil left Soup2Nuts in early 2006.

In 2006, production started on his new album, "Deeper Space", which was released in 2007 exclusively on the iTunes Music Store. Vigil has a [http://www.myspace.com/joeboydvigil MySpace profile] . His music can also be heard at Last.fm, where his first album, "", is avaialble for free listening. [http://www.last.fm/music/Joe+Boyd+Vigil Joe Boyd Vigil – Music at Last.fm ] ]

In the month of October, 2007, Joe Boyd Vigil updated his MySpace with four new tracks. These songs belong to a new project, entitled "The Inevitable Course of Events". [http://www.myspace.com/JoeBoydVigil MySpace.com - Joe Boyd Vigil - Electronique / Healing & EasyListening / Grime - www.myspace.com/joeboydvigil ] ] "The Inevitable Course of Events" was released on iTunes and Amazon MP3 in late 2007.

Influences

Vigil lists some personal influences as Amon Tobin, Future Sound of London and Sonic Youth, primarily for their propensity towards electronic manipulation and augmentation of their music.

Discography

*2001: ""
*2002: "Unreleased 2002"
*2003: "" (featured)
*2007: "Deeper Space"
*2007: "The Inevitable Course of Events"
*2008: "" (featured)

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/joeboydvigil Joe Boyd Vigil's Official MySpace]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Joe+Boyd+Vigil Joe Boyd Vigil's Discogs]

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