Artist
Illusion Of Safety
Illusion Of Safety, a drone artist from Chicago's experimental scene since 1986, creates immersive soundscapes using field recordings and minimalism.
About
Illusion Of Safety emerged in 1986 from the shifting tectonics of Chicago's experimental underground, where Daniel Burke and Jim O'Rourke, alongside a rotating cast of collaborators, crafted a world of textural soundscapes and psychological tension, weaving field recordings and minimalist compositions into a gravitational force that pulled listeners into a sustained exploration of the sonic abyss; their medium of choice, the cassette tape, became the vessel for conveying these infinite harmonics, each release like Repairs (1988) on Sound of Pig Music or My Mind Is Killing Me (1986) on Concept City, a step deeper into the raw unfiltered approach that defined the noise of the era, while The Banishing Ritual (1994) on Complacency captured the ambient drone essence that lingered as their sonic evolution drew to a close in 1994, leaving a legacy that resonates through the layers of their 15 releases, primarily distributed through labels like Complacency and Concept City, where their commitment to underground distribution created a network of sound and silence that still vibrates in the hands of those who seek the uncharted edges of auditory perception.
