Data Cult Audio

About: Dungeon Destroyah presents his upcoming concept entitled “Petit Mal”. A project whose sound became a never ending search to bring heavy frequencies back to the village. Playing with air to create ballistic sonics that simulate an insect shedding its exoskeleton or a primate discovering the subwoofer. It aims to stir the imagination rather than diluting it through a sound collage of field recordings, modular synthesis and analog/acoustic drums. Petit Mal is about following your intuition and never looking back. Links: https://dungeondestroyah.bandcamp.com/releases https://www.instagram.com/dungeondestroyah/

About metajon is an experimental music project by Jonas Schröter.
He tries to hide the grids and the characteristics of the everyday music and to ascribe pieces completely free of charge.
The project is designed so that the songs can also be performed live. He only uses hardware devices and only to record, mix and master the computer. Links: https://metajon.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/metajon https://vimeo.com/metajon https://www.instagram.com/metajonmusic/

About: Thierry Holweck is a French electronic musician, whose thematic music is based on sound exploration made with his modular system. Recordings are captured performances of tracking the white rabbit down a sonic worm hole that share time between mono and polyrythymic layers, twisted by Euclidian and random parameters. Created is a conversation between tension and release and a mix of simple and gentle melodies. Natural sounds like a wood floor, animals and any natural element fed into the sampler add depth and humanise the soundscape. Thierry is based in Lyon-Croix-Rousse, France. Links: https://www.instagram.com/tholweck/ https://www.facebook.com/severin24music https://vimeo.com/pandatransport

About: Aria Cluster aka Sushant Joshi is a music producer, sound designer, and educator currently based out of Bhimtal, Uttarakhand, India. His current work revolves around using sound in an experiential way either by more of an ambient approach or anything new in terms of manipulating noise around in terms of medium using synthesizers. Sushant's core lies in music production, synthesizers, sound design, sound editing, mixing, and sound art. Being a self-taught musician has been a journey, prescient and invigorating. The process of making music for Sushant is a blank canvas to which the colours of sound flow in all their natural capacity and tone. He approaches composition starting with the key and time signature and then creates unending chain of improvisations. In his music making Sushant prefers exploration of modular synths, VCV rack and semi-modular synths. He recently released his album Omnipresent, a compilation of 30 songs created in VCV rack. The core approach is creating generative, ambient soun

About: Sine Mountain, aka David Soto, is a world-building, modular synth artist and head of the Colorado Modular Synth Society (CMSS). David is a proud Chicano working in the ambient and experimental side of music. His music has been described as cinematic, patient, moving, and emotional. His intention is to tell short stories through his compositions. Fascinated by science, love, and the nature of birds, many of his albums focus on time, distance, and the struggle to stay alive. The piece performed for Data Cult Studio was inspired by a short story his 7-year-old wrote about daydreaming. The music was recorded in one take with a modular synthesizer and a Cicada (Physical Synthesis). Links https://sinemountain.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoUHOCaj2FfIgA8VNVmZFrQ https://www.instagram.com/sinemountain/

ABOUT THIS RECORDING: Rebecca's latest mix is a live ambient/experimental performance recorded in one take in my studio. The sounds come from various software and hardware instruments and includes layers of original field recordings. Since recently completing a Circle of Live - In Bloom mentorship program with another Detroit-based artist, Erika, Rebecca composed this piece incorporating some of the approaches and techniques to live jamming that we considered. The piece is called “Edinburgh” and was inspired by a brief moment spent in a magical place. About: Rebecca Goldberg is a producer, DJ, live performer and designer from Detroit. Since her debut release, 313 Acid Queen, she has been affiliated with the multidisciplinary arts collective, Detroit Underground. Rebecca is a seasoned radio DJ having mixed for FM and internet-radio shows hosted across the globe. She hosts her own monthly program “D-SCOVERY” on London’s Aaja Radio highlighting contemporary techno and house from Detroit. She tours international

About: danielle_griselda is not a musician. danielle_griselda is a black dot experimenting with light and sound exploring the self-generative through hardware electronics for theatre and movie scoring and simply for having some fun. because being alive may mostly be a random fact, intertwining unpredictable shapes could be another one among all random possibilities worth trying to play. venti ventuno: velleità virtuale embraces the idea of setting boundaries within which things happen, instead of choosing what is going to happen precisely and when and how; some said once that will is always negative and what is causing this piece makes no exception, there might be nothing left to do but trying and going wrong anyway. face this fleece virtually. it helps me sleep. Links: https://danielle-griselda.bandcamp.com/ https://linktr.ee/danielle_griselda https://www.instagram.com/danielle_griselda

About: Moxy Martinez, a self taught DJ & producer, has created, performed, produced, and contributed original music and DJ sets for a variety of projects both nationally and internationally since 2003. They have worked and collaborated with individual artists, art institutions, art galleries, dance studios, live music venues, and film projects throughout their career. Highlights of Moxy's career include DJing the Trans Musicales festival in France (2007), being hand selected by Tom Sachs for his show ‘Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective’ at the Contemporary, Austin providing a unique DJ mix which was played from inside his sculptures (2015), and contributing original music to Emmy nominated documentary Tiny Out Loud (2015). In addition, Moxy has recently (2018- present) worked with the Columbus Museum of Art and The Wexner Center for the Arts providing live DJ sets, performing live synthesizer sets and mediating discussion forums with other artists. Most notably, in collaboration with The Wex and Counterfeit

About: For Raul Duran aka Iteration and Discord is not a hobby. It’s possible the process of making music is meditation. During the production most of the daily toil disappears and he is left with an open mind ready to receive the spark of creation. Attempting to forget everything about music and let the subconscious decide what direction to take. Sound and developing tone are very inspirational.  
 The track featured is over 30 minutes of live parameter tweaking. The performance is an unforgiving manipulation of a recorded modular synthesizer. The recorded synth part is further processed in real-time with Ableton. 
 Links: https://iterationanddiscord.bandcamp.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/5oFIReTPzvmRvaJVn6yAal https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuMLJ9eoaXMAmzCYTYoLX8whttps://www.instagram.com/iterationanddiscord/

About: In 1956 the russian space agency launched a secret mission to altair inside the g-cloud, an interstellar cloud 16.7 light years away from the sun. three brave cosmonauts were launched on a one way journey to the distant star. Their objective was to seek habitable territory and investigate unidentified deep space radio signals emanating from the planet. throughout their journey these deep space frequencies were intercepted, recorded and relayed back to planet earth where scientists baffled to decode them. with access to only primitive 1950's equipment the signals could not be deciphered - until now...  cyberneticOhm is a technological performing arts + modular synth electronica collective from altair > based on  > planet earth > utilising science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things we have developed a system through which translation > transcoding of distant radio wave signals from deep space is possible Links: http://www.cyberneticohm.org https://cybern

About: Frae-Frae: Daughter of Drexciya is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, educator, composer and electro acoustic adventurer. Bedrock to her artistry is the roots and the fruits of the blues from spirituals to afro diasporic futuristic soundscapes that explore time travel, prayer, meditation, and the African American ecstatic tradition. As a composer, she writes for film, theater, and large and extended jazz and classical orchestras. She is able to write for any instrument, and her creative range spans immersive and ambisonic music, blues, various ethnomusicological traditions, rock, pop, hip-hop, and her own brand of subaquatic deconstructed techno soul. To date, she has shared her intentional creativity in 38 countries. Frae-Frae is also the Executive Director/Dir of Artistic Programming at Willie Mae Future Sounds named after Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton. W.M.F.S. is a STEAM based, year round empowerment rhugh music program that includes spiritual activism, Afro Dias

About: SADI composes electro-acoustic, instrumental music, and she has long been concentrating her research on the perceptibility of music. Her most recent work focuses on the strategies to reunite otherwise different fields in order to create a captivating and coherent totality. The search for sound and music as cognitive phenomenon is a fundamental part of her current composition activity. Links: https://www.facebook.com/sadimusique https://sadioortmood.bandcamp.com https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5WitW2ACjJvjOYLVc2JStq?si=-T9zF1IlRb61Qx7t0xs2OQ

About: New York-based musiс producer, composer, recording, mixing and mastering engineer with more than 20 years of expertise in the field. As a composer, he wrote music for TV series, theater plays and TV commercials for such brands as Wrigley and Head and Shoulders.
He contributed to studio and live music projects with prominent musicians such as percussionist Pete Lockett (Bjork) and bass player Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel) in Air Studios (London), Mosfilm (Russia) as well as in studios of Bollywood, India with top audio producers such as Haydn Bendall (Chief Engineer at Abbey Road Studios). Boris recorded 7 albums as a member of the electronic duo Moscow Grooves Institute. His band opened live acts for such bands as David Gahan (Depeche Mode) and Massive Attack. The song “Les Chrysanthemes” released by the French label "Pshent" in the compilation “Hotel Costes 3-eme stage” was sold more than half a million copies worldwide. Boris also directed and managed a music record label "Citadel recor

About: Weaving wires through the psychedelic intergalactic cosmos. Kri Samadhi plugs your brain into the PCB of what we know as the matrix. Witness the sounds of modular synthesis, pure analog waveforms and a trip into the Interdimensional self. Take a ride on the spaceship thru storm known as Kri Samadhi. Links: https://touchsamadhi.com/artists/kri https://www.discogs.com/artist/5194632-Kri-Samadhi https://krisamadhi.bandcamp.com/ http://www.krisamadhi.com/

About: During a crash landing near Pluto, the Kerberos broadcasting system was set up by Beyond the Clones, a producer near Frankfurt who uses retro space toy sounds which lands near dark intelligent breaks, experimental Analogue, 8Bit house and Minimal Glitch, a big believer in old recording formats and using them to promote the soul of the toy/80s hardware sound, so over coming some crazy tactics to get there, orbiting that with computer coded madness. Soviet space mission inspired game app out soon. Links: www.facebook.com/beyondtheclones https://beyondtheclones.bandcamp.com/

About: Silence_Castor is the creation of Nate Hicks; a Vermont-based folk and acoustic punk writer turned synth addict and space explorer. He became fascinated with the universal field, electricity, and how an analog synth bends currents. Surrounded by a space station of samplers, sequencers, synthesizers, and cassette machines, he spends his nights fading across genres and collaging together lush soundscapes. Most of the music is a blend of perfection and imperfection, as he deconstructs and rebuilds dilapidated verses and crispy static choruses. There is a cozy space somewhere in there. All you need to do is fold yourself into the sound. Links: Insta - https://www.instagram.com/silence_castor Bandcamp - https://silencecastor.bandcamp.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/0aQFiDkH1ofWOcuzXlr4wI Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/silence.Castor Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/user-565343076 Merch - https://silence-castor.creator-spring.com

About: monoscene is an experimental electronic music project by Christoph Scholtes that uses a variety of artistic concepts and sound sources including modular synthesis, tape loops, acoustic elements, and field recordings to push creative boundaries of the electronic music genre. In addition to focusing on live performance and improvisation, monoscene explores production and composition techniques to realize an artistic vision and aesthetic that is deeply rooted in Ambient music. Born and raised in Germany, Christoph now lives in Colorado. He is inspired by the mountains and the local synth community. Links: https://monoscene.bandcamp.com https://www.instagram.com/monoscenes/ https://soundcloud.com/monoscene https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjm6UpsYC0Uh9ECU4Cbd_OA

About: Rotator is a drone project based around combinations of delay, reverb, resonance and feedback. I've had a long-running fascination with taking simple sound sources - analog oscillators, tuned percussion, plucked strings - passing them through combinations of effects - filters, resonators, delays, reverb - then taking those altered sounds and mixing them back in with themselves. This feedback loop keeps the rhythmic, melodic and harmonic content of the input but adds its own musicality to the output. It continually builds on and modifies the original so the final result is something new and hopefully more than just the sum of its own parts. I don't have a clear set of musical influences for this - it's as much about my love of the saturated sounds of tape delays from Jamaican Dub originators like King Tubby as it is about the concepts behind Emptyset's location-based works or any of the more obvious drone, ambient and electronica references. None of these ideas or techniques are new - but I hope my

About: Marci.DH is a musician from Arizona. Using synths, sequencers, acoustic percussion, and stringed instruments, she makes rhythmically-charged, genre-avoidant electronic music. Links: https://marci-dh.bandcamp.com/ http://instagram.com/Marci.dh

ABOUT: J.Alpinist is the moniker of John Hornak, Ambient and Modular Synthesist. After the release of the highly successful “Offerings” project in 2018, garnering critical and chart praise, going as high as number 5 on the Earshot Canadian Electronic charts, number 1 on many stations and with a run of over 15 weeks. J.Alpinist departed on a European tour, performing with acts such as Croation Amor and playing at the legendary Liquid Sky in Berlin. After the tour and at the start of quarantine, 2 purely ambient Ep’s were released, “Time=Nothing” and “Functional Ambient” for the German Record label “A Quite Room” and releasing the track “459” for the Sled Island Lemonade Stand Compilation. After over a year of work both in Europe and in Calgary, the new record VHS Dubs was completed. LINKS: https://jalpinist.com/ https://woodsongs.bandcamp.com/ Instagram: @jalpinist