Dean Roberts is a musician and composer from

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who works with electroacoustic music, minimalism, free improvisation, song cycles and prog rock. During the mid-1990s he was a member of the trio

Thela Thela was a short-lived rock band from New Zealand. It was formed in 1992 and consisted of Dion Workman, Rosy Parlane, and Dean Roberts. They released two LPs on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label. Following the band's demise in 1996, all ...

with

Rosy Parlane Rosy Parlane, also known as Paul Douglas, is an electronic musician from New Zealand who currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand. He was in the New Zealand trio Thela, then went on a solo career, as well as co-founding the Sigma Editions reco ...

and

Dion Workman Dion Workman is a musician from New Zealand. Throughout the mid-1990s he was a member of the trio Thela with Rosy Parlane and Dean Roberts. After Thela dissolved in the late 1990s, Workman and Parlane moved to Melbourne, Australia, and record ...

. After Thela disbanded, Roberts recorded 3 solo albums under the name White Winged Moth, followed by a series of releases under his own name. Along with

Martin Brandlmayr Martin Brandlmayr is an Austrian percussionist, drummer, composer and electronic artist. He is widely recognized for his work in a variety of so-called "post-rock" bands, namely Radian, Trapist, and Autistic Daughters, among others. Critic Bri ...

and Werner Dafeldecker Roberts was a member of experimental trio Autistic Daughters when he lived in Italy. He has also recorded with

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and

Thurston Moore Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a member of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moo ...

. He graduated from

Elam School of Fine Arts The Elam School of Fine Arts, founded by John Edward Elam, is part of the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries at the University of Auckland. Students study degrees in fine art with an emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach. The schoo ...

' Intermedia department and later taught time-based arts there.

Solo discography

White Winged Moth

*'' I Can See Inside Your House'' LP ( Poon Village, 1996) *'' Silo Blanket'' LP (Formacentric, 1997) *'' Ribbon Arcade'' LP (Formacentric, 1998)

Dean Roberts

*'' Moth Park'' LP (Formacentric, 1998) *'' All Cracked Medias'' LP (

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, 1999) *'' And The Black Moths Play The Grand Cinema'' LP (Mille Plateaux, 2000) *''

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'' LP (

Erstwhile Records Erstwhile Records is an independent record label devoted to free improvisation, particularly the electroacoustic variety, contemporary, experimental composed music, and combinations of both. Erstwhile was founded by Jon Abbey in 1999, whose perso ...

, 2001) *''Be Mine Tonight'' LP ( Kranky, 2003) *'' Jealously and Diamond'' LP (Kranky, 2004) *'' Uneasy Flowers'' LP (Kranky, 2008) *'' Not Fire'' LP (Erstwhile, 2020)

References

External links

White Winged Moth
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