Aphex Twin
- Composer
- Actor
- Music Department
Richard D. James is one of the most inventive musicians to have come
out of Britain. Born in Limerick, Ireland, and raised in Truro,
Cornwall, UK, to parents of Welsh decent, his music is always changing,
always inventive, and liberally laced with his own brand of eccentric
humor. Under a variety of stage names, (AFX, Caustic Window, Polygon
Window, and Aphex Twin, to name the most known), he has transcended
through the various permutations of pop-oriented electronic music,
fused together elements of each, and given us an insight into inner
worlds vast and beautiful. In 1997, he caused a controversy with his
video "Come To Daddy," directed by Chris Cunningham, which featured his
distorted visage grafted onto the faces of mad children running through
a dilapidated housing project. This is the moment that people in the
mainstream began to be aware of this musical phenomenon. He has gone on
to become one of the only pop-oriented musicians to collaborate
regularly with people from the Western classical world, such as Philip Glass
and Gavin Bryars.