Aaron Dilloway

Aaron Dilloway (born 1976) is an American experimental musician. He is an improvisor and composer originally from Brighton, Michigan, who works with the manipulation of 8-Track tape loops in combination with voice, tape delays and various organic and electronic sound sources. A founding member of the industrial noise group Wolf Eyes (1998 - 2005), Dilloway now resides in Oberlin, Ohio, where he runs Hanson Records and Mailorder.

Biography[edit]

Dilloway was born in 1976 and grew up in Brighton, Michigan and as a teenager began attending house shows in the nearby college town of Ann Arbor.^[1] He formed a group called Galen in the 1990s, and soon after became a member of Couch, whom Galen had opened for at its first show.^[1] Dilloway then moved to Ann Arbor, where he began working with experimental and noise groups - one of which being Universal Indians - and where he would, eventually, co-found the group Wolf Eyes, with whom he would perform until 2004.^[1]

Late in 2004, Dilloway moved to Nepal, where he recorded prolifically (his own material, field recordings, and Nepalese radio broadcasts).^[1] He moved to Ohio in 2007, working with Emeralds among others, and releasing his own material. Among his releases are 2012's Modern Jester^[2][3] and 2017's The Gag File.^[4][5]

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Further reading[edit]

• Brown, August; Roberts, Randall (August 16, 2017). "What to listen to now: Alice Glass and Aaron Dilloway". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 11, 2019.

External links[edit]

• Hanson Records official website