Data Cult Audio

Errant Space is a project of composer/recordist Craig Chin. Its primary goal is the manipulation of time and space through sound. Performances are site-specific, spontaneous compositions influenced by both the physical characteristics of the space they are performed in and the occupants of that space. Craig also produces the Errant Space Podcast which has featured solo performances as well as collaborations with other sonic explorers. It has been posted monthly since 2015. Listen at: www.errant.space link: http://www.errant.space/ link to podcast: http://www.errant.space/blog/

Samuel Cape has been studying and writing music for 25 years, but stopped playing in bands in 2005.  Sam played guitar in Atlanta based metal bands Dawn of Orion and also Signs of Dying for which he was a founding member, guitarist, and drum machine programmer.  Shortly after graduating from Georgia Tech with a Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he began focusing on developing technology used for anti-counterfeiting of currency.  His career has brought him deep into a unique technological niche that involves animation, algorithm design, programming, and mathematics.  Several years ago, Sam started recording music again and began building a home studio.   The piece here, titled "Rachaph", strives to illustrate creation as an interference pattern generated by echoes of the past, visions of the future, and the tangibility of the present moment. Riffs from a 2003 Signs of Dying recording were loaded into the Eurorack Synth module - "Equation Composer" and manipulated further with custom firmware that Sam created.  Additional textures come from several other Eurorack patches using Moog, Mutable Instruments, Befaco, 4ms and TipTop modules.  Recorded and manipulated further in Propellerhead Reason software. Sam is currently looking for opportunities in Film Scoring and Video Game Sound. Instagram, Twitter: @CapedSam https://soundcloud.com/sam-cape

Collin Russell is a Southern-California based composer and the Director of Technical Support at Qu-Bit Electronix. Heart Eyes was recorded live on an Eurorack modular synthesizer for Data Cult Audio 0026. Heart eyes have been gone for some time, but are here now. They see what they like, but don’t always like what they see. Void-gazers, they are, glancing from here to there. They finally stop to stare. Record date: September 19, 2017 Airdate: October 7, 2017 Duration: 23:21 www.collinrussellmusic.com www.collinrussellmusic.bandcamp.com

Chief Acid Officer is Zachary Hollback, a musician and electronic music producer in suburban Connecticut by way of Chicago and Atlanta. Zachary has been performing and producing live hardware-only sets of machine music since 2001, starting primarily with dancefloor-ready beat-driven techno (under the name Push Button Action Man). As he moved forward his style moved backward, coming to rest on the acid house that he grew up with in the 1980s. His recordings and live sets are a love letter to the classic energy of house music and the sound of the 303, peppered with experimentation, improvisation, and elements of modern electronic music. Zachary recorded this set live on an all-hardware setup especially for Data Cult Audio. Links: chiefacidofficer.bandcamp.com/ instagram.com/chiefacidofficer youtube.com/user/zacharytube

About: James Watson is the vocalist, guitarist, synthesist, sound designer and songwriter for the experimental drone and noise project Eightch. He is best known for his live performances and uses synths and effects to create imaginatively dramatic soundscapes. Each composition is designed to transport listeners into a meditative and/or trance like state. Employing techniques like micro-listening as a way to gain sonic entrainment, ambient works serve as a counterpoint to heavy and aggressive modulation and phasing often played at high volume. Eightch (pronounced like “H”) has toured extensively in the US and throughout Europe, including performances at both Knobcon in Chicago and Superbooth in Berlin. He is currently in the studio working on a full-length album for release in late 2018. www.eightch.com www.facebook.com/eightch1980 www.instagram.com/eightch1980 www.eightch.bandcamp.com/releases www.eightch1980.tumblr.com

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. As remnants of industry diminished into a barren wasteland it engraved a mark on him that is expressed in the sounds he creates. He is also the founding mind behind Data Cult Audio. Links: FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/DataCultAudio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacultaudio/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/…/pod…/data-cult-audio/id1234835844 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/datacultaudio Twitter: https://twitter.com/DataCultAudio Web: http://datacultaudio.com/

JNN is the murky electronic workings of Andrew Pigue. Ranging from harsh noise to IDM, JNN attempts to re-capture brief encounters and lost memories through hybrid synth movements. This mix explores the full spectrum of JNN’s sound, from droning analog techno to soft ambient tape loops. Links: https://m.facebook.com/djinntn/ https://djinnbass.bandcamp.com/ Soundcloud.com/djinntn https://scaledtongue.bandcamp.com/album/i-never-found-myself

Kri Samadhi started out composing industrial music in 1993. Along his way he got more involved with electronic dance music. By 1997 he was heavy meshed within the global Psychedelic Trance scene. Producing a wide varieties of different styles of music (Psytrance, Ambient, Techno, Sludge Metal etc..) and releasing albums heavily over the last 2 decades. Kri has come to focus mainly using modular synths over the last 4 years, but has always focused on hardware synths. Links http://www.krisamadhi.com/ https://soundcloud.com/krisamadhi https://www.instagram.com/krisamadhi/ All release can be found here http://www.krisamadhi.com/releases

Lindred creates hyper-emotional music. Heavily processed textures meet saturnine melodies and elastic vocals. She exists between Texas and Berlin and is inspired by a magical synth pom named Ami. The sounds featured here are largely built around voice and were performed on modular synthesizer, followed by additional digital processing. It’s glistening synth music for fluorescent goths. Links: https://soundcloud.com/lindred
 https://www.instagram.com/lindred_/

Kimchi Princess lives in San Francisco and composes musical sounds with modular synthesizers. After falling in love with late nineties rave music, Kimchi has been exploring the world of sound synthesis ever since. Kimchi has no formal musical training, doesn’t play any other instruments, and had left the world of music production after burning out on software (and the inherent trap of endless editing) many years ago. But still Kimchi listened, feverishly, voraciously, to the wide world of sound. A few years back Kimchi happened upon youtube videos of these strange devices and have thus entered the world of modular. About the track: Tech Duiin is a live piece recorded in one take using a eurorack modular synthesizer and pedal effects. No post processing or editing of any kind involved. Links to Kimchi Princess: www.instagram.com/kimchiprincess/ https://352421365622.bandcamp.com/