Steve Burr This is Me

Education

 Web References

1. 1. The GILA Monsters - Party Gras Band

   www.gila.com/steveburr.html - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/3/2003   Last Visited: 6/15/2006

   Steve Burr, Vocals, Percussion, Guitar, Harmonica
   
   Steve Burr is a multi instrumental musician and sonic artist currently residing in Venice California. He got his start musically in Cocoa Beach, Florida playing drums in the local beach clubs. He attended the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale before leaving Florida to attend CALARTS (California Institute of the Arts) where he earned a B.F.A. During his time in school he studied recording engineering and electronic music as well as building instruments entirely from scratch and playing some of the traditional Afro/Cuban forms of hand drums and Javanese Gamalan.
   
   Recently featured playing harmonica in New Line Cinemas DVD release "50 Cent - Refuse 2 Die" (Directed by Underhill) He has been involved in live and recorded percussion for large theater and dance productions like KEN KESEY's "CHILDREN'S STORIES" at the John Anson Ford Theater, RIKA O'HARE's SALOME at CALARTS and GATE PRODUCTIONS' FAILURE TO DISPERSE. After co-founding the improvisational "Techno-Tribal" group THE MUDMEN, he played acoustic/electric percussion for various L.A. bands like BUSHTAXI and went on to co-found DIRT TRIBE, a Funk-Rock outfit that played the L.A. club circuit during the 80's. In the early 90's he did a west coast tour with Vangaurd recording artists DIFFERENT WORLD.
   
   He also composed and played on the scores of the feature films SWITCH Directed by Brian Lynch THE LONG WEEKEND by director GREG ARAKI and VENICE BEACH PARTY by ANDREW LERNER. He has recently been busy composing music for commercials like the KZG GOLF television campaign and interactive media such as The MICROSOFT project INTERCOM, and INFRARED SIGHTINGS, an animation laserdisk by Trigon Productions.

2. 2. Electronic Musicians

   www.indiejournal.com/indiejour - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/6/2002   Last Visited: 1/6/2002

   TranceVersions is the project of Ontario, Canada musician Steve Burr. Steve has been playing music since the 70's when he got into the Punk movement, and later New Wave, Glam Rock and Alternative Rock. His songs are pure electronica in Brian Eno ambient sense.