A visual artist and filmmaker who has worked with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Alessandro Cortini, and Benoit Pioulard, Sean Curtis Patrick also makes ambient electronic music in a similar vein to the aforementioned artists. Whether working under his own name or as Assembler/Responder, albums such as 2016's The Deccan Traps and 2019's Pioulard collaboration, Avocationals, convey vaporous moods and a distinct sense of place. Born and raised in Traverse City, Michigan, Patrick first fell in love with electronic music in college. The cutting-edge sounds and visuals of Warp Records artists like Aphex Twin, Broadcast, and Boards of Canada were especially influential to him, and Patrick began making his own music in the early 2000s. Some of his first works were included in the 2013 album Areas. In 2009, he worked with Trevor Vincent Edmonds on an album inspired in part by a children's book about UFOs from the '70s; the result was Other Worlds People, which Patrick released in 2013. His other releases from that year include Bishop & Clerk, a set of pieces dedicated to the late engineer and producer Walter Sear. Patrick was also prolific in 2016, issuing The Deccan Traps that February, Pantani that April, and four albums -- The Apportioned Mass, Atlatl, Interfax Ghosts, and Sweet Lake, Bitter Lake -- that September to celebrate turning 32 (these albums were also collected as the box set 09/10/1984). In 2018, Patrick reunited with Edmonds for Loam, a collection of loop-based pieces released that January. For Sleeping Buffalo, an EP recorded at the Banff Centre, in Alberta, Canada's Banff National Park, appeared that October, along with the Muzan Editions release The Earth's Green Mantle. Avocationals, a collaboration with like-minded artist and longtime friend Benoit Pioulard inspired by nine Great Lakes shipwrecks, arrived via Beacon Sound in March 2019. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi