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Steven Hess (drummer)
Steven Hess (born December 3, 1969) is an American musician most known for his career as the drummer for the experimental metal band Locrian. Hess joined Locrian as a permanent member in 2010 and continues to this day. He is also a member of the post-rock band RLYR with members of Pelican and Bloodiest.In 2010 he met Chicago musician and visual artist Michael Vallera. Since then, the two continue to collaborate as Cleared and have six full-length releases on both the Immune Recordings label, and the London-based Touch label.

Since 2004 he has been a collaborator and part-time member of Mark Nelson’s Pan•American project. Playing on four releases, co-writing, and performing live drums, vibraphone, and electronics. He also contributed drums on both releases by the group Anjou that was formed by Mark Nelson and Bobby Donne (both of members of Labradford).

In 2008 he started performing live drums and electronics with Stefan Németh, the then guitarist for the Vienna experimental group Radian, for his solo record “Németh”. Performing in Chicago and later at various festivals in Europe. This led to recording new ideas for what would become Innode and bringing in Bernhard Breuer, drummer for Elektro Guzzi, as a contributing and permanent member. The trio have recorded two records for the Editions Mego label.

Hess is a founding member of the Chicago-based experimental trio Haptic, along with Joseph Clayton Mills, and Adam Sonderberg. Since 2005 Haptic have explored the intersection between composition and improvisation in concerts, installations , and a string of critically acclaimed recordings. They often work with filmmakers, dancers, and other artists in projects that cross traditional boundaries between music, sound, literature, visual art, performance, and everyday life.

A versatile and much-sought-after collaborator, he has also worked and recorded with some of the most important artists in contemporary music, including Christian Fennesz, Robert Hampson (Loop/Main), Olivia Block, Jon Mueller, Glenn Kotche, Aaron Turner (SUMAC/Isis), Martin Siewert, Boris Hauf, Pierre-Yves Macé, Tony Buck, Greg Davis, Machinefabriek, Sylvain Chauveau, Christoph Heemann, and numerous others.

Discography

 * SR Hess - Demise (2010, Digitalis)
 * SR Hess - System Failure (2010, Entr’acte)
 * SR Hess & RM Zuydervelt - Re: collecting (2016, Umor Rex)
 * SR Hess + mise_en_scene - Non-Distinction (2012, Los Discos Enfantasmes)
 * Steven Hess & Christopher McFall - The Inescapable Fox (2011, Under the Spire)
 * Steven Hess & Miles Tilmann - Departures (2008, Other Electricities)
 * Greg Davis & Steven Hess - Thirty Thirty (2008, Presto!?)
 * Greg Davis & Steven Hess - Decisions (2005, Longbox Recordings)
 * Robert Hampson & Steven Hess - s/t (2004, Crouton)

Cleared

 * Of Endless Light (2022, Touch)
 * Breathing Ring (single) (2021,Touch)
 * The Key (2020, Touch)
 * Serpens (2017, Utech Records)
 * Drown (2014, Immune Recordings)
 * Breaking Day (2012, Immune Recordings)
 * Cleared (2011, Immune Recordings)
 * Cleared EP (2011, Digitalis Ltd)

Dropp Ensemble

 * The Empire Builders (2003, Longbox Recordings)
 * Ingen Tid (2005, Tonschacht)
 * Safety (2009, either/OAR)

Fessenden

 * v1.1 (2006, Other Electricities)
 * Inside the Ice Factory (2006, Utech Records)
 * Fessenden / Keith Berry (2006, Chat Blanc Records)
 * Capture/Create (2005, Entr’acte)
 * Preview (2005, Stasisfield)

Haptic

 * Danjon Scale (2006, Entr’acte)
 * Correction (2007, Entr’acte)
 * Velocimane (2008, Entr’acte)
 * The Medium (2009, FSS)
 * Trebuchet (2009, Entr’acte)
 * Scilens CD (2011, Entr’acte)
 * Abeyance (2013, Entr’acte)
 * Excess of Vision: Unreleased Recordings (2014, Notice Recordings)
 * Ten Years Under the Earth (2017, Unfathomless)
 * Weird Undying Annihilation (2021, Notice Recordings)
 * Ladder of Shadows (2022, 901 Editions)

Innode

 * Gridshifter (2014, Editions Mego)
 * SYN (2021, Editions Mego)

Locrian

 * The Crystal World (2010, Utech Records)
 * The Clearing (2011, Fan Death)
 * Dort Ist Der Weg (single) (2011, FSS)
 * New Dominions (collaboration with Horseback) (2011, Utech Records/Relapse Records)
 * Bless Them That Curse You (collaboration with Mamiffer) (2012, Profound Lore/Utech/SIGE)
 * Locrian + Christoph Heemann (2012, Handmade Birds)
 * The Clearing/The Final Epoch [reissue + bonus material] (2012, Relapse Records)
 * Return to Annihilation (2013, Relapse Records)
 * Infinite Dissolution (2015, Relapse Records)
 * New Catastrophism (2022, Profound Lore)

ON (with Sylvain Chauveau)

 * Your Naked Ghost Comes Back at Night (2004, Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier)
 * Second Souffle (2006, Brocoli Records)
 * Your Naked Ghost Comes Back at Night [reissue] (2009, Type)
 * Something That Has Form and Something That Does Not (2010, Type)

RLYR

 * Delayer (2016, Magic Bullet Records)
 * Actual Existence (2018, The Flenser)
 * RLYR (2022, Gilead Media)

Pan•American

 * White Bird Release (2009, Kranky)
 * Cloud Room, Glass Room (2013, Kranky)

Ural Umbo

 * Ural Umbo (2010, Utech Records)
 * Latent Defects (2010, Utech Records)
 * Fog Tapes (2010, Hinterzimmer)
 * Delusion of Hope (2011, Utech Records)

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 * When The Circle Was Closed (2022, Dinzu Artefacts)

Appears on

 * Machinefabriek - With Drums (2021, Esc.rec.)
 * Machinefabriek - Bridges (2011, machinefabriek)
 * Fennesz - Seven Stars (2011, Touch)
 * Pan•American – Quiet City (2004, Kranky)
 * Anjou - Epithymía (2017, Kranky)
 * Anjou - s/t (2014, Kranky)
 * Next Delusion - s/t (2016, Shameless)
 * Boris Hauf Sextet - Next Delusion (2011, Clean Feed)
 * Aidan Baker - The Spectrum of Distraction (2012, Robotic Empire)
 * David Daniell & Douglas McCombs - Versions (2012, Thrill Jockey)
 * David Daniell & Douglas McCombs - Sycamore (2009, Thrill Jockey)
 * Hat Melter - {Unknown Album} (2003, Crouton)
 * Sylvain Chauveau - Kogetsudai (2013, Brocoli Records)
 * Sylvain Chauveau - Singular Forms [Sometimes Repeated] (2010, Type)
 * Male - German for Shark (2010, Other Electricities)
 * Male - All Are Welcome (2008, Other Electricities)

Group Exhibitions, Installations, Theater, and Museum Performances

 * 2015 - Abeyance w/Haptic (Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago, IL)
 * 2011 - Three plus three w/Haptic (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL)
 * 2010 - Requiem w/Annie Feldmeier Adams, Joseph C. Mills, Brendan Burke (Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago, IL)
 * 2009 - Triptych w/Haptic and Lisa Slodki (Museum of Contemporary Art, 12 X 12 Gallery, Chicago, IL)
 * 2009 - Joan Dark (dir. by Aida Karic), music by Music by Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, and performed by Steven Hess, Joseph Mills, Jason Stein (Hafenhalle/The Goodman Theatre, Linz, AT)
 * 2003 - The Empire Builders: Dropp Ensemble w/Josh Berman, Jason Roebke, Sam Dellaria, Aram Shelton, and Adam Sonderberg (the Viaduct Theatre, Chicago, IL.)