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Nathaniel Ritter

voc,
Rock and Electronic
A.k.a. Nathaniel Allen Ritter

A student of philosophy and religions both evident and esoteric, Nathaniel Ritter is a Madison, WI artist perhaps most well known for his work with various musical entities including Kinit Her, The World On Higher Downs, Burial Hex, and his solo audio work: Circulation of Light. Ritter has experimented with digital, analog, and physical media his entire life. While cross-discipline art continues to surge in popularity, Ritter’s work seeks an end to barefaced mixing of media for the sake of it, and to replace more futile trends with focused syntheses forged by an unerring sacred intent. The artist states: "The aim of my work is to break the hardened shell of atheism and nihilism that surrounds this era. The popularity of a-spiritualism and anti-spiritualism continues its exponential climb, but with good reason. However, I do not seek to comment on religion with my work, but to re-arrange what has become esoteric, spiritual symbolic-language. In turn, I create focal points to remind the viewer that humanity has always strove to discover its essence. Intuition is extremely valuable both as a spiritual and artistic instinct. While the modern world has proven harmful to those who wish to connect with primordial spiritual tradition, it has provided artists with digital media that allow as much intuitive freedom as an abstract painter has at the easel. It is this friction, between what technology represents in opposition to spirituality and the intuitive freedom it provides, that drives a great deal of my work into existence."

Instruments

• Vocals
• Acoustic guitar
• Organ
• Synthesizer
• Percussion

Genres

• Rock
• Electronic
• Folk
• World
• Spoken Word

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