Data Cult Audio

ABOUT: My Panda Shall Fly AKA Suren Seneviratne is a Sri-Lankan born musician working on the periphery of experimental music. Trained at Goldsmiths University London, Seneviratne has released various projects on international record labels and performed extensively at platforms like Tate Modern, Barbican, Boiler Room & more. Recent work includes sound design for Novation, Google Daydream VR & Gucci. His latest collaboration is an eight track album with the Norweigan-American clarinettist Lars Rynning, released in October 2020. LINK: latest collaboration album:https://bloxhamtapes.bandcamp.com/album/magnetism latest solo album: https://bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-thirty-five https://www.instagram.com/mypandashallfly/ https://www.facebook.com/mypandashallfly  https://www.twitter.com/mypandashallfly

About: Atlanta-based instrumentalist / producer / sound designer Ryan PT makes experimentally-minded electronic music combining elements of ambient, drone, IDM, and noise. Past and present affiliations: Blackfox, Rat Mass, Carrier Hotel, Aku You, Ultralap, Clibber Jones Ensemble, Scoring Dope for the Ultimate Woman, and Bent Frequency. Links: Web: http://www.eldoradoomega.com/ Music at https://eldoradoomega.bandcamp.com/music Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6IazFUdg4PzbtuyBMiaZIn Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/eldorado-omega/1445967922

About: Composer-live performer A.V.Serzhen came up with El.Fugue concept while rehearsing J.S.Bach for classical guitar. Since then he works with analog / modular synths making an accent on live electro sound. He also writes orchestral works and teaches at Interval Music School.   Link: web: https://elfugue.bandcamp.com Prior project: Ettylleon

About: Neybuu spent 10 years studying classical tabla in India under Pandit Ishwar Lal Mishra, who toured the world with Ravi Shankar. Upon returning to the states, she shifted focus to music production and has been using live hardware to create tabla-infused dance music ever since. Her  sets are an energetic mix of vocals, synths, beats, tabla, and effects--all of which she loops live.    Links: www.neybuu.bandcamp.com www.instagram.com/neybuu www.neybuu.com www.facebook.com/neybuumusic www.twitter.com/neybuuofficial www.soundcloud.com/neybuu https://open.spotify.com/artist/2eaSfeMbbxeo0T8Cg2MDhI

About: Ivo Ivanov is best known for his vast creative contributions to Glitchmachines, where he is the Founder & CEO. Aside from managing Glitchmachines for the last fifteen years, Ivo has worked as a sound designer and content provider with some of the most notable creative audio companies in the Industry including Ableton, Native Instruments, Tiptop Audio, SoundMorph, Twisted Tools, Inear Display, Audio Damage, Unfiltered Audio, K-Devices, Skywalker Sound, Soundsnap, Sinematic, Big Fish Audio, Wide Blue Sound, Splice Sounds and Plugin Boutique to name just a few. Ivo is also a circuit bending pioneer and accomplished musician. He has custom built circuit bent instruments for artists like Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Trent Reznor, Otto Von Schirach, Richard Devine, DIOYY, Men Without Hats and many others. In 2000, he toured the U.S. as the keyboard player for Reprise Records' Snake River Conspiracy, sharing the stage with acts like Stone Temple Pilots, Filter, Cypress Hill and Static X among others. More recent

About: occurian is the alias of Portland-based musician Dan Pisarcik. His debut EP was released earlier this year on Heterodox Records— a collection of frenetic, dense compositions in the IDM/braindance vein, influenced by the genre’s pioneers, such as Aphex Twin and Squarepusher. This collection of songs for Data Cult Audio opens with a portion of occurian’s last live appearance in Austin, TX and is followed by a mix of new and released compositions from recent weeks, the song “mannequin bending” from the EP, and live streamed Twitch performances from spring 2020. occurian's 2020 debut EP is availalble on vinyl/cassette/digital formats on Bandcamp. Links: Bandcamp: https://occurian.bandcamp.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/occurian Facebook: https://facebook.com/occurian

About: Two Landscapes is the psychedelic ambient project of H. Shaw released on his imprint Day Job Recordings. He also releases music under his left-field house and techno influenced monikers Cancel Council and Reorg. The Northern California native has lived and worked in NYC, Tokyo, Shanghai and is currently based in Los Angeles. Links: Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dayjobrecordings Bandcamp: https://twolandscapes.bandcamp.com Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/29HJXwm7VqVrC42z2rwry4?si=hFQ7mzwkSyGach1Mc3r8cg Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/two-landscapes/1332096091 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dayjobrecordings/

About: Tristan/Iseult is a nihilistic techno project that explores mythology sonically through modular synthesis. The project emerged first in a live setting back in 2015 at Der Bunker Teknobar in Phoenix, Arizona opening for SHXCXCHCXSH. That ethos of live sound exploration is reinforced with this set for Data Cult Audio, which was recorded in one take with no overdubs or post-production work. Up to this point, Tristan/Iseult has sought to give a nihilist reading of Dante’s Inferno, a profane understanding of moral sentiment as expressed through the narrative of sin and damnation. While modular synthesizers are the primary instruments used, cello and voice provide additional layers of sound — sometimes obvious, though at other times sampled and synthesized. Tristen/Iseult is currently working on a debut 4-track EP. Link: https://www.instagram.com/blackest_suun

About: Pauk (Pau Cabruja) is a lover of knobs and buttons and is a self confessed controller addict. He has always tried to reflect personal experiences in his music, researching new ways of creation, experimenting with analog and digital hardware and software, and always communicating through his Monome so that his works come alive on stage. A statement of intents in his sound, where strength and emotion go hand in hand like life itself, a language of emotional melodies and super-edited twisted rhythms crushed with his digital blades. Links: http://www.pauk.org/ https://discontinurecords.bandcamp.com/album/melancholic-anger https://discontinurecords.bandcamp.com/album/electric-jazzmine https://discontinurecords.bandcamp.com/album/pauk-remixed https://discontinurecords.bandcamp.com/album/insekt https://discontinurecords.bandcamp.com/album/oda-a-m

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 series Rendezvous 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://sleepofe

About: MODEKT is the dark experimental electronic synth project from Austin based creative Colin Williams. His sound is crafted by fusing electronic and acoustic instruments with field recordings. The outcome is a wall of atmospheric textures designed to take the listener on an aural journey. He has performed around the US in Texas, Michigan & California with a small erurorack modular system. The recently released EP, Isolation caught the attention of Errorgrid, who decided to bring him on for future releases. Links: http://modekt.com https://modekt.bandcamp.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wUuFEfETdEUI7sfNWH3CHsi=caGHuf3bTKuoW1GLjWnZ5g https://www.instagram.com/modekt/

About: Mimetik is a music project which was born in Hamburg, but followed Alessandro, a mathematician interested in both audio and visual arts, through a couple of cities to finally land in Berlin. Mostly concerned with ambient music, it does not shy away from other genres, be it indie songwriting, techno or aleatoric music. Making use of Alessandro's guitar and piano playing, it tries to bridge the gap between experimental sound design and melancholic lullabies, refusing to accept pop and melodic as highbrow synonyms for simplistic and uninteresting. It can be found lost in drones or modular synths ambientscapes, usually at night, when no one is watching. Links: https://mimetik.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/mimetik https://www.instagram.com/mimetikmusic/

About: DREAMSTORAGE aka Josh Penunuri is a multi-instrumentalist and electronic music composer from Riverside, CA. Josh uses modular synthesis for creating complex longform ambient compositions. The compositions are aleatoric yet harmony is always maintained and dissonance is minimal as it is used mostly as a textural component. Josh’s music is both the outcome of experimentation and careful melodic structuring. One key theme in his compositional framework is morphogenesis. Melodic structures often morph into new structures while retaining familiar characteristics. The transitions from one phrase to another are morphological in nature and never suggest abruptness. Prior to pursuing electronic music, Josh played bass in several bands. His experience playing with other musicians has endowed him with an understanding of harmony. Shoutout Hexpressionist, Kenton, Scott, Alexis and Milo

About: As Snakes of Russia, Los Angeles based producer Joseph Holiday works hazy, dark sound design, heavy low end rumble, and slow rolling hip hop beats into tracks that evoke a dystopian landscape, creating instrumental music that feels as timeless as it does current. His new EP, “At Home Alone With Lions” is out now. Links: www.snakesofrussia.com https://www.instagram.com/snakesofrussia https://bit.ly/SnakesofRussiaSpotify https://bit.ly/SnakesofRussiaYoutube

About: For much of his youth, Brandon Krotser (aka krouzer_) spent countless hours pouring over artists like Trent Reznor, Massive Attack, and many other rock, trip hop, and electronic influences. Following high school, he took the plunge and pursued a music career as the keyboardist for the alt rock outfit Hierosonic. After a decade of writing, recording, and extensive touring, Hierosonic disbanded, with Krotser shifting his focus to his own personal material. After spending a few years deep diving into modular synthesizers, krouzer_ was formed. Drawing from the likes of Autechre, Boards of Canada, Orbital and even trip hop pioneer DJ Shadow, krouzer_ is the culmination of Krotser’s influences… unapologetically contrasting and without compromise. Links: https://soundcloud.com/krouzer https://www.facebook.com/krouzermusic/ https://www.instagram.com/krouzer_/

About: Plates in the Sky is an experimental electronic solo endeavor. Using modular synthesizers, effects, drum machines and keyboards, Chris Heinisch performs noise, musique concrète and ambient sets which sometimes swerve to electronic dance music. Chris was a working musician in Chicago for seven years, playing with various musicians. They started the band Apartment, a cabaret chamber punk sextet.Chris wrote and arranged most of the songs. Chris has collaborated with Marvin Tate (D-settlement, Joseph C. Mills,the Black Monks of Mississippi), “Tuba Joe” Exley (ABC, BBC, Mindy Kaling’s Late Night), performance artist Natalie Brewster Nguyen (Cirque Roots, La Pocha Nostra, Girlesque Burlesque), Caila Lipovsky (Second City, NYC Fringe Festival) and Leroy Bach (Liz Phair, Wilco, Andrew Bird, Iron and Wine). Links: Link to a longer bio and press page: https://tucsonelectronicmusic.com/platesinthesky/ Purchase the EP entitled full: https://platesinthesky.bandcamp.com/album/full

About: Raised on the East Coast, Chris Piraino now lives in Tempe, Arizona, where he has built audible sculptures of hand made electronic devices. His attraction to older circuits and using analog processes, have been used in performance of sound art at many local venues. Spatial sound experiments have driven his performance directions and sound design influenced by the movement of sound. Chris is constantly exploring performance and interaction with sound. His artistic bent has allowed him to better develop more intriguing instruments and ways to communicate through sound. Links: Instagram: chris.piraino.az Facebook: chris.piraino.35 www.ChrisPiraino.net

About: Andy Morello is an electronic musician that specializes in original productions and remixes. He employs newer technologies along with traditional analog ones, with an aim at finding the link between improvisation and programming. Initially his electronic productions and live performances were dub based until Andy found modular synthesis in 2017. From this he honed his approach to modular performance and defined his style of impromptu sound installation. He music is improvisational, and unique to every performance. His live is a journey through rarefaction, granulation, dub, techno and rigorously no-DAW, analogue experimentation is created live and obviously controlled by voltage. In 2018 he created Milano Modulare by collecting numerous memberships from all over Italy, and gathering the attention and support of many artists, performers and fans. By doing this he created a real community linked to modular synths. Andy continues and collaborating others organizing different events and concerts, suc

About: Alpha Decay aka Ambre Laparra Blumenfeld is a French live sound engineer based in Barcelona. Well know in the European underground modular scene, she began to build a DIY modular system a few years ago, perfecting a patch that allows her to 100% improvised all her performances and one take recordings. Noisy oneiric electro break, she likes to play poly-rhythmic sounds and loads of breaks to create intuitional pieces not coming from conventional musical structures but just letting a feeling growing and transmit it. Links: VIDEO Streaming for Synth Vicious Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOF6MrNtrBs SOUNDCLOUD : https://soundcloud.com/alphadecayz/after-casa-sabado-0404 BANDCAMP : https://donationsrecords.bandcamp.com/track/fluying INSTAGRAM : @alpha_decay_modular You can also check her “build in progress” project “WAVE GAME” on INSTAGRAM : @wave_game__

About: Born and raised in New York, Anthony Baldino is an LA based composer and sound designer whose work spans an enormous range of production avenues. The likelihood that you haven't heard his work is nearly impossible, with music and sound design in too many trailer campaigns to list, including Prometheus, Interstellar, Ex-Machina, Star Wars: Rogue One, Avengers: Infinity War and End Game just to name a few. From there, his work ventures to the opposite pole of production with custom sound design based compositions for Dolby Labs mixed in Atmos, beautifully glitched out remixes for artists such as Trifonic, Matt Lange as well as Travis Scott’s “Pray 4 Love” as heard in the Uncut Gems trailer, and continues on to mind-bending modular synthesizer performances. This collection of works are all unreleased demos including modular patches and ambient sketches and the set closes with the last song, “Beneath The Fall”, off of his debut release “Twelve Twenty Two”. Albums: Twelve Twenty Two: https://methlabagenc