Artists | Stephen O’Malley (US/FR)

Artist’s website: ideologic.org


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Stephen O’Malley (born 1974 in Seattle, USA) is an American guitarist and composer.
He is a founding member of several groups including Sunn O))) (1998–present), Burning Witch (1995–1998), KTL (2005–present), and Khanate (2000–2006). Within these groups and alone, he has collaborated with a variety of artists including Greg Anderson, Merzbow, Eyvind Kang, Alan Moore, Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram, F.M. Einheit, Randall Dunn, James Plotkin, Julian Cope, Joe Preston, Attila Csihar, Stuart Dempster, Peter Rehberg, Lee Dorrian, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Nurse With Wound, Boris, Michio Kurihara, Jim O’Rourke, Keiji Haino, Aaron Turner, Oren Ambarchi, Alexander Tucker, Z’EV and also with Daniel O’Sullivan, Kristoffer Rygg, Vincent De Roguin and Steve Noble in the Æthenor.

O’Malley also produced work together with the French choreographer and theatre director Gisèle Vienne (the pieces Kindertotenlieder” (2007), Jerk (2008), Eternelle Idole (2009), This Is How You Will Disappear (2010)), American sculptor Banks Violette (various projects between 2005–2009), the Italian performance artist Nico Vascellari (2007–2011), Swiss art collective KLAT (2009), and the Belgian film maker Alexis Destoop (Kairos (2010)).
Lives in Paris, France.