Victor Wulf is a Canadian
keyboard player
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and composer. He is recognized for his solo
ambient music
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project
Dilate
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and as a founding member of
sound collage
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band
Vampire Rodents
Vampire Rodents was a sound collage and experimental music ensemble based out of Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, although its core members originally came from Canada. The creative nucleus of the project comprised vocalist and composer Danie ...
.
Biography
Victor Wulf was involved in composing music for television since 1977.
In June 1989, Wulf and Vahnke founded
Vampire Rodents
Vampire Rodents was a sound collage and experimental music ensemble based out of Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, although its core members originally came from Canada. The creative nucleus of the project comprised vocalist and composer Danie ...
, a project that incorporated elements of
industrial rock
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and
sound collage
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.
The duo released three albums: ''
War Music'' (1990), ''
Premonition
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'' (1992) and ''
Lullaby Land'' (1993). During this time, Wulf was primary influenced by
Can,
Bernard Herrmann
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,
John Zorn
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and
big band music
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.
Wulf became less involved in the writing process with each album and he decided to leave Vampire Rodents after the release of ''Lullaby Land''. Wulf founded his own
ambient music
Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes Musical tone, tone and atmosphere over traditional Musical form, musical structure or rhythm. Often "peaceful" sounding and lacking Musical composition, composition, beat, and/or structured melod ...
project
Dilate
Dilation (or dilatation) may refer to:
Physiology or medicine
* Cervical dilation, the widening of the cervix in childbirth, miscarriage etc.
* Coronary dilation, or coronary reflex
* Dilation and curettage, the opening of the cervix and surg ...
in 1995. After being picked up by
Cleopatra Records
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History
Founded in January 1992 by Brian Perera, it specializes in go ...
, he released ''
Cyclos'' in early 1996.
''
Octagon
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'' was released in 1997.
Discography
Dilate
* ''
Cyclos'' (
Cleopatra
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, 1996)
* ''
Octagon
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A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, which alternates two types of edges. A truncated octagon, t is a ...
'' (Cleopatra, 1997)
Vampire Rodents
*''
War Music'' (V.R., 1990)
*''
Premonition
Premonition(s) or The Premonition may refer to:
Film and television
* "Premonition" (''Alfred Hitchcock Presents''), an episode of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (1955)
* "The Premonition" (''The Outer Limits''), an episode of the original ve ...
'' (V.R., 1992)
*''
Lullaby Land'' (
Re-Constriction, 1993)
References
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1950 births
Canadian ambient musicians
Canadian composers
Canadian male composers
Canadian experimental musicians
Canadian rock keyboardists
New-age musicians
Living people