Data Cult Audio

About: PTNA aka Justin Olson began his music journey with the Violin at age 3. By the time he was in college, Justin shared his songs in live performances and open mics building confidence as a performer, and learn the satisfaction of sharing his creations with the world. As an artist, it is easy to become lost in your head and process, live performance is a very important tool to receive feedback and input that guides your creative output and can give you the needed confidence to share it with the world. In 2014, Justin began his journey into Synthesizers, Electronic Drums, Samplers and Drum Machines. Since 2014, Justin has focused on creating musical projects, performances and albums on his Eurorack Modular. He has released 20 + albums of music during this time-frame and has enjoyed the process of patching a song over hours to days and then performing it live and capturing the performance. Justin has performed around the state of Arizona including: Tempe Center for the Arts “ Singer Songwriters Showcase” in partnership with PBS, “Knock the Blues out of Hunger” Blues Festival, Glendale Folk Festival, Weekly “Fun Fridays” at the Tempe Center for the Arts and most recently, a live Eurorack Modular Performance at , “ Wireheads” in downtown Phoenix. Justin enjoys introducing people to Modular synthesis and being a knowledgeable resource to expose and bring students into the area of study and creation. His mission is to help guide newcomers through the vast market of gear, resource material and introducing them to basic skills that build on each other and provide a strong foundation to continue their very personal journey of building their own Modular instrument. Justin is currently a modular Synthesizer instructor and has taught at the Academy of Modern Music Production (AMMP) in Mesa, AZ. Links: https://ptna.bandcamp.com/ http://m.soundcloud.com/ptna

About: Sleep of Eons is the glitchy electronic modular/computer based audio visual work of Jorge Bojorquez from Tucson, AZ. In 2018 a shift from guitar based drone music to modular synths provided a long sought after solution to creating generative, slowly changing, self evolving soundscapes which could still be controlled by the player. With the aid of a/v programming languages like Max/MSP and Processing the project now is taking on a visual manifestation as well. RGB Riot was an EP released in early 2020 that showcases the opposite of these ideas and focuses on minimalism and what can be done with nothing but a couple of Pocket Operators and a delay pedal. The range of glitchy to drone and anywhere in between is welcome territory. At his core Sleep of Eons is inspired greatly by science fiction and the seires Rendevous with Rama and hopes to capture some of that monolithic, alien, otherwordly yet familiar feeling in musical and visual form. Links: https://www.instagram.com/sleepofeons/ https://sleepofeons.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/sleepofeons https://facebook.com/sleepofeons

Data Cult Audio 0267 - Blakmoth by DC Audio

About: Yates is an Atlanta native artist. He spent his early years on drums and guitar in metal bands before discovering synths in the early 90’s. He has an avid love for the sonic artistry of early industrial acts and how they performed. He currently finds himself in a few musical pathways from creating songs for Internet personalities, scores and sound fx for local film makers, and also a long time musical partner and he are developing a "band" based around live electronics inspired by how Author and punisher and Skinny Puppy plays instruments. He, like many others in the synth world, found himself deep in the modular wormhole. Yates Has a firm belief that his rig knows what he is feeling and knows how to spit it back out at him in ways you wouldn’t expect. This session was recorded while under the thumb of chaotic life happenings during the month of sept 2022. It represents a lot of emotions from anger to peace. A sonic pallet swirling inside a black hole millions of light years away from earth. Links: https://yateszaldevour.bandcamp.com

Bio:  Ecotech is a solo electronic music project started by Zachary Sedefian in January 2021. Ecotech often releases dub techno or deep house tracks, but he also records a lot of other music. His submission to Data Cult Audio is an amalgamation of experiments he made in Upstate New York and Lima, Peru. The first half is an exploration of the MengQi Wing Pinger as an instrument, accompanied by a Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus, Lorre-Mill DoubleKnot, and eurorack modular synthesizer. In the second half Ecotech used a Charango (traditional Andean instrument), iPhone, and Cocoquantus to make contemplative grainy soundscapes. This recording combines an interest in the limits of frequency modulation and ping with time-stretched garden sounds and false nostalgia. Links:  https://ecotech.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/Ecotechnologist https://www.instagram.com/ecotechnologist_/

About: A.M. Filipkowski is fascinated by dystopian fiction. This is the starting point for his aural projects. He attributes this to growing up in inner city Detroit, and watching as the city seemed to die around him. Remnants of industry diminished into a barren wasteland engraved a mark on him that is expressed in the sounds he creates. He is also the founding mind behind Data Cult Audio. Links: Bandcamp: https://datacultaudio.bandcamp.com/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/DataCultAudio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacultaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-cult-audio/id1234835844 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/datacultaudio Twitter: https://twitter.com/DataCultAudio Web: http://datacultaudio.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Datacultaudio

About: Dexba, in his awkward first attempt at talking about himself in the third person, is an Italian musician in love with big soundtracks, ambient noise, and chants coming from the rocky steppe. He started his journey as a cellist, swore he would never work in an orchestra, and decided to move on to synthesizers in order to play more than one note at a time. Born too late to own property, too late to be La Monte Young, and even too late to be a YouTube star, Dexba is trying to find his way in music and maybe this podcast is a sign he is on the right path. Links: https://www.youtube.com/c/Dexba https://www.instagram.com/dexbasynth https://dexba.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/dexbasynth

About: Rodrigo Passannanti is an Italian-born electronic musician based in London UK at the forefront of numerous productions and world-wide releases including bespoke compositions for Sync-music, Caprisar Productions, Media music manager and Warner/Chappell Music as global publisher. Links: https://rodrigopassannanti.bandcamp.com/music https://www.facebook.com/rodrigo.passannanti https://music.apple.com/us/artist/hypercube/159239163 https://soundcloud.com/rodrigopassannanti https://www.instagram.com/rodrigo.passannanti/

About: (As per Aelk Minsur) I’m blessed to be able to do what I love for a living. As an industrial and commercial electrician, I spend my days with badasses building badass stuff. It’s incredibly fulfilling to be a part of large scale projects and build things that get put to use everyday. Each construction site has a strong energy - energy from the site itself and especially from the people that work there. It’s a loud and in-your-face energy that has a positive, forward momentum. This recording is a distillation of that energy. Some of the beats are brand new and some are taken from my album, "Everything is a Nail". Shoutout to the Data Cult Audio crew for inviting me back. Be sure to support them at their Patreon. I hope you enjoy this set. Turn it up to 11 and bang your head! Links: https://linktr.ee/aelkminsur

About: Glinca is Tazio Iacobacci, a composer from Sicily, Italy. In the early ‘90’s he started making music as a drummer with several noise bands. In 2002 he joined a band called “Tellaro", a slow core project signed to 2nd Records which put out four releases. At the same time he developed his interest in composing music ranging from acoustic to electronic soundscapes and he mainly did this under the moniker "Pola" (three records, the first released on Ionik Recordings). He joined several productions as a drummer, guitarist and programming electronic stuff. Actually he started making music with modular synths under the “Glinca" moniker and put out three records, the last one on Werra Foxma Records. "In general, the way I compose does not follow a pre-determined path.Sometimes I search for a sound.Melodic lines are often extrapolated by a process of subtraction: I make a pattern of 16 random notes, I keep 4 or 5 of them, just to make things clear. I leave a lot of room for randomness and in this particular respect, modular synths are perfect. I am into the idea of preserving as much as possible the random melodic line I get from the overall modular process. Lately I've been trying to write music with just a few lines, no superstructures. For instance, the tracks I'm writing right now are compositions with two oscillators and only two melodic lines. No overdubs, pretty stripped down and minimalistic." Links: https://glinca.bandcamp.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Cn6XI5iZOGTvJkU8f272T https://www.instagram.com/glincamusic