About

Kyle Sattler (MA BFA), is a Tauranga based multi-disciplinary artist, musician and recording artist working and experimenting across a broad range of methodologies.

Sattler’s experimental visual arts practice focuses on an underlying investigation into ontological themes and the study of the metaphysical. His video and sound-based installations are designed to explore the influence of rhythm, flow and immediacy on human experience. Recent artworks have employed varying arrangements of semi-autonomous AV systems working incommensurably and asynchronously to mimic the aleatoric nature of our immediate experience.

By drawing from the writings of film theorist Michel Chion, and the philosophical propositions of Henri Bergson, Sattler’s works enable an exploration of synchresis – the perceptual fusion of concurrently occuring visual and sonic phenomena in film. The asynchronous video/sound design of the AV components responds to the position that, occurrence, comes before, the application of meaning. Suggesting the immediate experience of our physical nature (the world and the universe) does not work to any pre ordained order but to an ever unfolding cacophony of real time events imbued with reactions to them.

Kyle Sattler also masquerades as synth-punk solo artist, WE WILL RIDE FAST, a singer/multi-instrumentalist/multimedia music project described as, “what Robocop’s band would be if he was allowed to express feelings”. WE WILL RIDE FAST’s genre-straddling style of fuzzy keys, pulsing new wavey electronics and goth-tinted grooves are an aural backdrop for Sattler’s Post Punk Ontological Investigations.