Data Cult Audio

About: Composer, sound artist and sound designer focused on using spatial sound in multidisciplinary projects. Radek is working as a lead sound designer and music composer for Precyzja Foundation and director of Wave Folder Records. He manages and designs new media art projects. Radek supports product development and designs sound for number of synth makers and Eurorack module manufacturers. He makes music for theatre, film and game sound design. He collaborates with dance choreographers, visual artists creating new media works and audio-visual installations. Working with artists across cultures he creates new works linking traditional music and electronics. Links: http://www.wavefolder.net/ https://wavefolder.bandcamp.com/ http://radek-rudnicki.net/

About: Marie Ann Hedonia, has been playing Eurorack modular synths since the middle of 2018, she is fascinated with the endless sonic possibilities of modular synthesis. Exploring and practicing musical composition on modular synths inspired her master’s thesis on metacognition and individual artistic process. She works solo, and collaborates with @pablumpicasso in the synth-punk outfit, Operation Bingo. She recently released an EP, available now on Bandcamp. Operation Bingo, released their first album, titled “Content.” on Bandcamp January 8th, 2021. Links: Solo Bandcamp: https://paulandmariescountrykitchen.bandcamp.com/ Operation Bingo: https://operationbingo.bandcamp.com/

About: Aelk Minsur has been experimenting with sound since he was 16 years old and manipulated field recordings have always played a central part. It started off with recording friends at house parties, hiding micro cassette recorders under bus stop benches, or tapping telco junction boxes in neighborhood alleyways that would capture candid and occasionally illicit phone conversations. He would then edit these recordings on hardware samplers and 4 track cassette recorders to create a library of sounds to use in his music. Fast forward 20 years and field recordings still play a vital role but are now captured primarily from construction sites, warehouses and factories where he works as an industrial electrician. This set was created especially for Data Cult and features the signature aspects found throughout Aelk Minsur’s work – heavy beats, textured synths, and mangled found-sound. Links: https://linktr.ee/aelkminsur

About: More emergent than intentional, this piece is a long form exploration in sound design and rhythm that alternates between structured composition and abstract soundscape. Titled Mirage, it contemplates the emergent impact of technology on human culture and belief. It’s a moment of consideration and intrigue presented with patience and composure, while intensity and tumult regularly peak in from not too far away. Nord Modular G2 and MaxMSP. Created in Oakland and Humboldt County, CA. Malarki is an instrumental electronic music project that reinterprets the complexities of the natural world, in particular the tension between serenity and disharmony and the natural imbalance between creation and failure.  Ranging in style from Rhythmic Glitch and IDM to Textured Dark Ambience to Intense Industrial Soundscapes, the music is a challenging and emotionally honest reflection of our place in the modern world.  Created by bay area computer scientist Patrick Coleman, Malarki combines rhythmic ambience, abstract soundscapes, experimental sound design, and algorithmic composition.  His music pulls from a multi-instrumental background that includes synthesizer, organ, violin, and bass guitar, as well as his research experience in developing creative software and novel user interfaces.  He regularly performs live at bay area experimental electronic music events, and releases his music on Errorgrid Records and independently. Links: malarkimusic.com
errorgridrec.com 
instagram.com/malarki
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About: Yumi Iwaki is an electric sound artist and lyricist based in Tokyo. She layers sound with her sampled voice, modular synthesizers and small synthesizers particularly OP-1 and OP-Z. Links: https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/living-distances https://iuwerecords.bandcamp.com/album/connected-1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iwakiyumi/?hl=ja Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/iwakiyumi

About: Hailing from Oxnard CA, NMX (short for Necro_Mechanical) is an up and coming producer / DJ. Having honed his skills for several years as a member of industrial project Artifact Corruption, as well as the founder of Club Fallout, he is now set to unleash his dark rhythmic soundscapes upon the world. Ominous, bleak and brutal, his sound is a journey into a a dark landscape of sound. With industrial rhythmic pulses and urban tribal percussion set upon dark soundscapes and nods to dark techno, dark ambient and power noise, NMX has crafted a blistering sound that leaves listeners wanting more. Tension, suspense and atmosphere are found in equal measures along with a dark cinematic fashion that allows certain parts to shine through. Links: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdQ0kdQkYMiuIPVkWytEesQ https://music.apple.com/us/artist/nmx/1476331806 https://artifactcorruption.bandcamp.com/

About the music: This piece, Sequence of Isolations, is very much influenced by the long period of isolations this year, and as such perhaps mostly a study in solitude. Main voices are heard from the Moog Mother-32 and Subharmonicon, as well as drones and effects from the 4MS SWN, Instruo Ts-L, MI Rings, as well as plenty of reverb, delay, and modulation effects. It's evolved from the usual long-form ambient style Kim has performed under the monicker Dreamhub, but which have now transformed into a modular journey merging the past and the present into future explorations of raw electronic sonic territory and it's many facets. About Kim Bjørn: Also known as the creator of Bjooks, Kim has mostly been known as the author and designer he is. However, as an electronic musician, he's been active for over a decade with a multitude of long-form ambient sets performed in the US, Iceland, Hungary, and Denmark, at festivals, or at more intimate settings of self-study and meditation. Links: http://bjooks.com http://dreamhub.bandcamp.com http://instagram.com/kim_bjorn

About: Proximal/distal is the electronic music project of Jennifer Trezza. A longtime hardware enthusiast, she has been producing music for over two decades and is currently based in the PNW. Links: https://soundcloud.com/prxmldstl?fbclid=IwAR30IPFiF4XK9MVvFLnpSINNcoh07xpVSC3mDRaKNJNjk2oURZUPYFHPXoE https://www.instagram.com/proximal_distal/?fbclid=IwAR0C7bTciUm9TSNfdEGGYNEf9yMw-0quJvcaVWIhi8wZMIr9-vjO_vwxBzE

About: Giacomo Vanelli, also known as Giackxx (7 October 1975) is an italian musician and composer. Vanelli’s solo work consists mainly of electronic music. He is a founder and member (synthesizer and programming) of The GrOOming. The band released 3 albums and is today mainly involved in experimental electronic music works. Giacomo Vanelli’s music is almost entirely created with modular synths and is characterised by a melancholic atmosphere that lingers between the digital and the natural. The electronic composition is guided by a random modulation of events. With modular synths, the artist is free to experiment and sample, leaving behind any conventional idea of melody. The Feeling in Public album is a collection of 9 tracks and strongly evokes a clear music landscape of human emotion and spiritual transformation, reinforced by the typical repetitive lines of synth. Links: https://linktr.ee/giacomovanelli https://www.facebook.com/milanomodulare/ https://instagram.com/milano_modulare?igshid=smydwstcgzuo https://www.mixcloud.com/MilanoModulare/

About: Paul Stillwell is a musician and composer who is fascinated by the darker side of sound. Influences range through Psychedelic Rock, Dark Ambient, Berlin School electronica, and Musique Concrète.  The Canadian Electronic Ensemble, of which he is a long-time member, has had a profound impact on his musical style and sensibilities.  In 2016, Paul founded the Frequency Freaks Workshops – an inclusive community of composers, musicians and electronic instrument makers. He is also a co-organizer of the Toronto Sound Festival which features talks on mixing, mastering, sound design, field recording, game audio, audio for VR, composition for large and small screens, instrument building, and live performances. As a solo performer, Paul works under the moniker Intrepita.  During the day, he works in IT specializing in Network Security.  There will be a new solo album coming in the near future! Links: https://paulstillwell.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8HKMMmmt0jRMXLv6A2GdhA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvePeU3RDpAOeazLwLa5W8Q