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Sam Hamilton

Band, *1984 US
Electronic and Rock

Sam Hamilton, b. 1984, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, immigrated in 2014 to Portland, OR, USA, is a working-class interdisciplinary artist practicing across several interfolding creative, critical, material, and aesthetic trajectories through film, sound, writing, photography, objects, and painting. The recipient of the Art Foundations New Generation Artist Award, and a long standing sound artist for the internationally renowned Lemi Ponifasio MAU Dance Company, Hamilton has been a fulltime artist for the past decade, exhibited, presented and performed in over 25 countries across 6 continents in contexts ranging from Whitechapel Gallery in London to working inside the smoldering crater of an active volcano; from 5-month solo exhibitions at the Portland Art Museum, to developing ecology based theoretical frameworks for sound art from make-shift artist laboratories in the Amazon jungle. Although not overtly political, their practice resonates with the premise that everything is political by virtue of its inherent and intimate existential entangled. Their practice, with an ever evolving nomadic center of gravity that periodically comes to fruition as concrete materialisations, is shaped through plurality. Crystallized vectors within confluential lines of inquiry. Gentle put poignant gestures teased from between dualities, complexity/simplicity, challenging/inviting, our shallow and deep modes of engagement. A meandering pathway through an overgrown garden.

     
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Popular Tracks   
Brighter Skies on Volta Music: Momentum by Hugo Valentine, Magnum Opus & Sam Hamilton
Decline of the Empire on Dark Documentary by Various Artists
Power Trip on Dark Documentary by Various Artists
Safely Home on Volta Music: Momentum by Hugo Valentine, Magnum Opus & Sam Hamilton
Rubicon on Volta Music: Hybrid Epics, Vol. 1 by Various Artists
Expectations on Volta Music: Momentum by Hugo Valentine, Magnum Opus & Sam Hamilton
Just a Memory on Volta Music: Momentum by Hugo Valentine, Magnum Opus & Sam Hamilton
Simple Plans on Volta Music: Momentum by Hugo Valentine, Magnum Opus & Sam Hamilton
Positive Thinking on Volta Music: Momentum by Hugo Valentine, Magnum Opus & Sam Hamilton
Over the Rainbow on The Whiskered Waddling Walrus by Paul McKay & Sam Hamilton

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Discography

Title Artist Year Type
SUPER POSITIONSSam Hamilton2017Album
IntegrifoliaSam Hamilton2013Album
Time BankingJan Anderzen & Sam Hamilton2013Album
Dry Hail ChoirSam Hamilton / Andrew Scott / Ben Spiers2013Album
PALASam Hamilton2010Album
Sooty SymposiumSam Hamilton2009Album
TropicsSam Hamilton2007Single
Tidal Dee's And Harboured Dum'sSam Hamilton, Chris O'Connor2007Album
The Borders Of The Garden Paths Are OvergrownSam Hamilton2006Album
Shitty Peephole Lama KudosMark Sadgrove / Sam Hamilton / City People's Farmers Music2006Album
Low HillSam Hamilton2006Album
Freedom From Shallow WatersSam Hamilton2005Album
A Suitcase Full Of KnivesSam Hamilton2005Album
ShoturtohnSam Hamilton2004Album
We Will Escape In Our Own TimeSam HamiltonAlbum
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