MAY 16 | ARTISTS

00:00:28   データコード (Dētakōdo) - ::DATA CODE::| Italy
The project touches various genres and influences, analog and digital techniques for an extensive research in sound design.
We do not wish to claim a research interest in a future predetermined by the digital, nor do we want to do away with the digital. Instead we will attempt to explore how to practice research in a culture where the digital has become a cultural residue that consumes resources, even producing trash and forms of existence. the aesthetics and politics of the digital "during the transition to new cultural forms are still unknown to us".
データコード tells of abstract ambient soundscapes, surrounded by residual datas, randomly memory allocations, transmission problems, video signals, h/v sync, interferences, glitch and no-input noise to access certain parts of the mind through contemporary and avant-garde experimental music.
For more information ::DATA CODE:: | Website

00:01:44  The Clockwork Man | SNOG
Snog is a band that was formed by Australian musician David Thrussell, along with fellow art school friends Tim McGrath and Julia Bourke in 1989.
The band’s music is a fusion different styles, including industrial, techno, ambient, experimental, funk and country music.
Thrussell's songs frequently contain themes of anti-consumerism, individuality and anti-big-brotherism. The albums Third Mall from the Sun (1999), Relax into the Abyss (2000) and Beyond the Valley of the Proles (2003), The Last Days of Rome (2006) and City (2008) featured artwork by Canadian artist Chris Woods, whose paintings lampoon the advertising tactics of major corporations such as McDonald's, The Gap and Nike.
For more information:     SNOG | Website   SNOG | Facebook 

00:06:24 & 00:42:45   Unititled Test and Revelation AV Remix | embryoroom (New York)
Edward Paul Quist was born in 1976 in Brooklyn New York. A director, multi-media performer, writer, producer, composer, sound designer, and documentarian, lives and works in New York City under the name embryoroom. The emergent themes from Quist's work include the exploration of experimental narrative and sound design, vivid electronic and biomorphic imagery. He employs a radical use of Cinema verite, which is frequently simultaneously nightmarish and seductively beautiful. He has exhibited and performed at international festivals, art galleries and other art spaces around the world.
For more information:    embryoroom| Website     embryoroom | Vimeo

00:07:01   SPECIAL FEATURE: interview with Graham Cunnington and Paul Jamrozy | TEST DEPT (UK)
Test Dept are one of the most important and influential early industrial music acts and their approach was marked by the use of ''found' material, re-constructed to better serve their purpose, of making 'more' with 'less'. The core members of the group are currently Graham Cunnington and Paul Jamrozy with Angus Farquhar working on specific projects such as the DS30 installation and the 'Total State Machine' Book.
TEST DEPT: DS30
Test Dept re-emerged last year to create DS30, a major new installation and film that marks 30 years since the 1984-85 miner's strike and engages with the current cultural and political climate.  DS30 is presented in partnership with AV Festival:  AV Festival DS30 | Website and Test Dept DS30| Website
DS30 also marks the publication of Total State Machine, a major new book documenting Test Dept from 1981 to the present: Test Dept 'Total State Machine' | Website
'An Unprecedented Campaign'
'An Unprecedented Campaign' is Test Dept's live soundtrack to the recently rediscovered and restored Soviet silent film masterpiece An Unprecedented Campaign by Mikhail Kaufman. Commissioned by AV Festival, British Council and Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre. AV Festival TD 'An Unprecedented Campaign' | Website
TEST DEPT: REDUX
Cunnington and Jamrozy continue to chart new territory with a new live set up as Test Dept:Redux along with drummer Zel Kaute and sound maestro Charles Poulet. They mark a London debut at Raw Power Festival in London, Dome on the 27 May 2016.
TEST DEPT Live May 2016
12 – 16.5.16 Test Dept Exhibition Galerie KUB, Germany and 'Total State Machine Book' Launch Event.
16.5.16 Test Dept:Redux. WGT Festival Leipzig, Germany
27.5.16 Raw Power Festival, Dome, Tuffnell Park, London
For more information and tour dates/venues:   Test Dept | Website

00:24:54   Cross Over | Cecelia Chapman (USA)
Cecelia Chapman is a visual artist working in the still and moving image and short fiction. Her work focuses on the narrative of the image and knowledge. . She has utilized the persons, sites and stories around her in the more than seventy videos she produced, filmed, directed and edited. The tracks for her videos are sourced from international sound artists she meets online. Chapman views the San Francisco peninsula in the throes of epic societal upheaval and questions her role in the bio and tech revolution taking place.
For more information:    Cecelia Chapman | Website

00:27:36   Hortus Conclusus Artists' Live 10.04.2016, Friedebskirche Charlottenburg – Berlin | Hortus Conclusus Records
Video Director Maria Korporal  Maria Korporal | Website 
Performances
Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt: Soundcloud | Berlin Dolls    Facebook | Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt   Facebook | More Black Than God    Facebook | Drone Messiah 
Braghsdn (Angel Sanchez Cervera): Facebook | Braghsdn
Globoscuro (Emiliano Pietrini): Facebook | Globoscuro   Soundcloud | Globoscuro    Youtube | Globoscuro 
Metaphysical vocals by Aphra Tesla: Facebook | Aphra Tesla   Bandcamp | Aphra Tesla 
Hortus Conclusus Records is a multi-genre independent netlabel founded in July 2015, developed, managed and curated by Emiliano Pietrini, Ángel Sánchez Cervera and Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt.
For more information:    Facebook | Hortus Conclusus    Soundcloud | Hortus Conclusus    Mixcoud | Hortus Conclusus   LastFM | Hortus Conclusus

 00:36:55   Apex Fest 2015 | Article Collection (USA, Private Archive + Anòmia)
Chris Latina's Article Collection moniker employs generative and algorithmic techniques using custom built software and hardware, focusing on the intersection of natural and synthetic acousmatic phenomena. Latina is one half of label and ambient power electronics outfit Private Archive.
For more information:   Private Archive |Website     Anomia | Website    Private Archive | Bandcamp

00:46:10   I can’t go on, I’ll go on | BK ( Somewhere in the Melbourne Hinterlands of Australia)
BK is a Melbourne-based new media (sound & vision) artist here. BK makes dangerous modern* art. As a synesthete, BK experiences sound and vision as a jumbled, blended mix. The art is all about trying to externalize that experience. BK makes dangerous art.
For more information:    BK | Vimeo    BK | Twitter

00:49:13   Improv Live 'Desert Lamentation' | Wolf Party, Somewhere in the US desert lands
Wolf Party is a desertwave psychedelic music and noise performance art project.
Wolf Party's 2016 self-titled album release on Valentine's day is a horror themed concept storytelling album, about 'Wolf' the undead cowboy serial killer who rises from the grave in psychotic pursuit of his bride. It is a dark and twisted country western heartache psychosis, drawing influence from noise, psych rock and tribalism.
Wolf Party's earlier releases include the EP 'Your Lovin Burns Me Up Inside' and the album 'Swelter' a desertwave psychedelic buried alive nightmare.
Listen and watch Wolf Party here:    Wolf Party | Bandcamp    Wolf Party | Soundcloud    Wolf Party | Facebook and search #wolfpartynoise for other social media.

00:55:19 & 00:58:53  Death Dance Vision and Give Us Back our Shadows | Maria Korporal (Germany)
Maria Korporal is a visual, video and animation artist who has studied graphics and painting. Korporal is from the Netherlands and has lived in Italy, now resides and works in Berlin. Since the late nineties her focus of expression has been exclusively new media arts.
Her work often focuses on the human confronted with major forces of life, love and death, and usually she plays the roles by herself. Another recurrent topic in her work is the animal world in relation to the human, which finds its main expression in the series Korporal Zoo. Her recent work includes video art, digital imaging, performances and installations. 
For more infomation:   Korporal Zoo | Website    Maria Korporal | Website     Maria Korporal | Vimeo   

00:57:28   Rhythmic Movement Disorder | Robbie Avenaim (Australia)
Since 1991, Australian artist Robbie Avenaim practice combines traditional and extended techniques with physical modification of the drums. Recent modifications have included the invention and application of motorised percussive mechanisms, namely SARPS/2.0 and EMS Kinetic devices.
The design of new instruments is an integral part of Avenaim’s improvisatory and compositional processes in providing access to a greater vocabulary of sounds as well as expanding the role of percussion in experimental and contemporary classical musics.
His kinetic sound installations have been featured at numerous galleries, festivals and TV programs around the world.
Avenaim is also the Co-founder , Organiser and Director of the WHAT IS MUSIC? Festival, Australia's premier annual touring showcase of local and international experimental music from 1994-2011. This effort saw Avenaim and Oren Ambarchi (co-organiser) selflessly instigate what we know of today as a strong and vibrant Australian experimental music community.
For more information:   Robbie Avenaim | Website

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