Data Cult Audio

About: The Waveskania project was created in the summer of 2019 by Ukrainian electronic DIY producer Katerina Yan. Her music resides at the junction of various genres. These influences includie intelligent techno, ambient, drone and electronica. When creating her music, Katerina makes it a priority to research the various sources of sound. She examines their nature, their interaction and impact on the operation of the brain. She does this by scanning, sampling and running spectral analysis of environmental sounds, acoustic and electronic instruments, radio-noises, various software with subsequent DSP-processing. By doing so she has created of unique sound catalogs. Links: https://soundcloud.com/waveskania https://www.facebook.com/waveskania https://www.instagram.com/waveskania/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTWKGxQ6X7CWhEIizS1pMgQ

About: Doll is the solo Power Electronics project of Xayla Daisy from Phoenix, AZ. Harsh, deeply personal, slow moving electronics with a focus on S&M, transgender sexuality, mental illness, and vanity. lovedoll.bandcamp.com Daisyelectronics.bandcamp.com Babydollpowerelectronics@gmail.com

About: Sarah Belle Reid is a performer-composer who plays trumpet, modular synthesizer, and an ever-growing collection of handcrafted electronic instruments. Her unique musical voice explores the intersections between contemporary classical, experimental and interactive electronics, noise music, and improvisation. She has been recognized for her innovative work in expanding the "possibilities of the humble trumpet into new territory by the application of innovative sensing technology and sound processing” (Sequenza 21), including the development of her augmented trumpet, called MIGSI. Reid's debut album for trumpet and interactive electronics, "Underneath and Sonder," was released on pfMENTUM in October, 2019.  
 Links: Bandcamp: https://sarahbellereid.bandcamp.com/ Patreon: https://patreon.com/sarahbellereid Website: https://sarahbellereid.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/sarahbellereid Youtube: https://youtube.com/sarahbellereid

About: From the Bay and now in LA Ricky Tinez finds his inspiration in the late night underground scene. Taking inspiration from the warehouse district his deep house records can instantly show it through their sound & texture. Links: https://rickytinez.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/rickytinez https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4OAAbxtB6QEKaTDb-SEe-Q https://open.spotify.com/artist/2DvaNQDOAnhR1MXCFF7T98?autoplay=true&v=A

About: Kitty Spit is a well-known performer in the underground modular synthesizer scene in LA. Kitty Spit aka Skyler King is a life-long multi-instrumentalist (guitar, drums, bass & keyboards), who fell in love with electronic music at a young age, inspired by his father. Growing up playing with drum machines, synthesizer & effects pedals, the natural progression lead into modular synthesis & has become a main staple in his everyday life. Links: www.soundcloud.com/kittyspit INSTAGRAM - @kittyspit

About: Gabriella Isaac is a computer musician from Phoenix, Arizona whose work explores and creates physical ways of engaging with digital sound. Her background in classical piano and personal interest in punk music led her to study Digital Culture at ASU's School of Arts, Media + Engineering. She studied the computational creation of digital sound and received both her B.A. (2016) and M.A. (2018) from the program. Her current work uses the audio feedback loop that occurs between the microphone and speaker of her laptop as a source of musical material and as a physical point of engaging with the sound itself. “ Links: https://soundcloud.com/gabriella-isaac http://www.gabbyisaac.com

About: Chris Meyer first learned how to play modular synthesizers as a teenager in the 1970s. He went on to be an engineer at Sequential Circuits (where he created Vector Synthesis), Digidesign, Marion Systems (Tom Oberheim), and Roland R&D US, teach synthesis at UCLA Extension, and write for magazines including Music Technology and Keyboard. More recently, he started Learning Modular as a way to teach others how to use modular synthesizers, and co-wrote the recent modular synthesis book Patch & Tweak with Kim Bjørn. Chris freely mixes samples and synthesis, creating a hybrid blend of electronic music with influences from world music and spoken word. He previously released the ensemble album “Alias Zone: Lucid Dreams”, which won the AFIM award for best independent electronic instrumental/ambient album of 2002. After a long detour in the video and film industry, he is now making music again, both as a solo artist and with the ensemble Meridian Alpha.  His Data Cult Audio set consists of a series of solo work

About: Patrick O'Brien POB is a modular synth performer in Los Angeles. Patrick grew up outside of St. Louis, classically trained on both piano and trumpet, which comes through in his melodic performances. He's DJed in clubs, worked in radio and is currently working in television. He's part of the Modular on the Spot LA team and performs live regularly along the west coast. You can catch his performances, jams and demo videos on his social channels. Links: https://www.youtube.com/obrienmedia https://www.instagram.com/pobenergy https://www.bandcamp.com/pobenergy https://www.soundcloud.com/pobenergy https://pobenergy.bandcamp.com

About: This Digital Landscape is comprised of Brooklyn-based artist, Trevor Clark and his Eurorack Modular System. He creates music for the long-winded listener and evokes deep contemplations through pounding rhythms and ever evolving digital and analog soundscapes. His debut album The Face You Wear // Is Not Your Own is available digitally and on cassette via Bandcamp. In a modular system, as in life, moments are unique in and of themselves. A charge, turn, or push causes catastrophic reactions that disappear as quickly as they came. A modular system makes recreating performances nearly impossible, resulting in a unique performance each time it is interacted with. These tracks are a collection of moments captured within the modular system. The first half of this set is inspired by David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel Infinite Jest and the parabolic nature in which the plot unfolds, but ultimately does not resolve. The beginning and end are chaotic and mirror one another, while the middle is more sparse, but

About: Dudadius is the electronic project of scoring composer, Bryan Rheude. He calls it Electro Humanism, even if we’re not entirely sure what the hell that means. There’s an undercurrent of cinematic vibes to his music, probably owing to Rheude’s day job creating scores for film, tv, and adverts. The Dudadius releases under the Collisions Minimal series are one-off modular performances, the others are traditional productions using a combination of modular synths and vintage poly synths; bringing it all together in Ableton. During the last couple years he has focused on performing live with his modular—driven by some of the Monome devices—including a real hoot at Moogfest this last spring. Dudadius also maintains an active Youtube channel, including a new series called Circuits with Feelings that features a combination of interviews and technical deep dives. Links: https://dudadius.bandcamp.com https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOrNss1QKPXC-ZFpm_YFIiTRU8gAnXL3x https://open.spotify.com/artist/476BOCuC

About: Scott Metoyer is an electronic musician, experimenter, software developer, and visual creator from Southern California. His work lies at the intersection of the concrete and the abstract, using technology, tools and generative processes to create intricate and evocative soundscapes. Scott uses a combination of modular synthesis, bespoke software, Reaktor, PureData, and hand-built custom controller hardware. He self-releases projects on Bandcamp, has many open source projects available on Github, and is currently designing a small range of boutique Eurorack modules. This release explores the hidden symphonies all around us, locked away in the mundane artifacts of consumerism. Scott has built Arduino-based custom controller hardware that extracts data from credit card magnetic stripes and numeric barcodes and uses it to generate MIDI note sequences and parameter control values. He captured the data ‘in the wild’ at grocery stores, libraries, and local shopping markets, often composing and recording in r

About: Indra Perkasa started his musical journey at the age of 12, when he joined the Mandarava Corps Marching Band as a baritone horn player. Since this moment he has never left music since then. From 2001-2006, he majored in double bass, graduating from Institut Musik Daya Indonesia (IMDI). Having found his roots in jazz music, he became the bass player of Tomorrow People Ensemble , and has been a member since its founding in 2005. After he graduated from IMDI, he continued his studies at UCLA Extension (Los Angeles), concentrating on film scoring. Indra currently works actively as an arranger and film composer, as a bass player for Tomorrow People Ensemble, Aksan Sjuman And The Committee Of The Fest, Monita Tahalea, and teaches film scoring at Sjuman School of Music. Links: https://soundcloud.com/indraperkasa https://www.instagram.com/indraperkasa https://www.facebook.com/LieIndraPerkasa

About: Tim Held is a Pacific Northwest Native. Tim is the founder of Self Center Records and The Podular Modcast. When not playing with his modular synthesizer, he can be found roaming the wilds of the PNW with fiancé Hannah. Links: https://podularmodcast.fireside.fm https://timheld.bandcamp.com

About: Chelsea Bruno, artist alias Eden Grey, is an experimental music composer and performer from Miami, US, creating a collection of cross-genre works in the studio. She has been performing her music live and self-releasing albums of studio works since 2008. Her passion for synthesis research developed while earning her Masters' degree in music technology at Florida International University. She was classically trained on the piano in her youth and has worked with the modular synthesizer since 2013. She is a PhD researcher in music composition at Royal Holloway, University of London and actively curating an ongoing series of modular synthesis meet and showcase events in London called CV FREQS. Links: https://edengrey.bandcamp.com https://soundcloud.com/eden-grey https://twitter.com/edengrey

About: Trovarsi is an LA based music producer and live performance artist who brings a unique sound to the world of electronic music. With a hybrid blend of analogue synths, modular, drum machines and Ableton, she builds a pulsing atmosphere to any set she plays. Found today in the LA underground delivering pounding, acid techno and house music that is equal parts technical and melodic, she strives to push the boundaries of electronic music. In addition to building various live performance setups she also spends countless hours in the studio producing music for some of her favorite labels. Check out her extensive release discography on Beatport. https://www.beatport.com/artist/trovarsi/552576 Trovarsi is one of the founding members of the Southern California Synth Society, whose purpose is to educate and facilitate interest in electronic music through synthesizers, modular DIY builds and community events.   To stay up to date with her releases, upcoming shows, and workshops, visit her links below. Links:

About: Eric Schlappi is a musician/engineer originally from Arizona, currently residing in Portland, Oregon. He has been performing with, recording, and exploring analog synthesizers since the early 2000s, which has led him into designing and manufacturing his own instruments as Schlappi Engineering. As a musician he is interested in liminal spaces and transformations from the familiar to the unrecognizable (and back again.) He is also interested in live improvisation and physical manipulation of sound. This set is a live-in-the-studio version of the recent live set, consisting of three songs and a lot of improvisation within them. The first and third songs are not yet on any release and titled Dorcas and Court Intrigue. The second is a reimagining of The Last Incantation off of the Poseidonis release. The titles refer to events within fantasy books by Gene Wolfe and Clark Ashton Smith, respectively. Links: https://ericschlappi.bandcamp.com   http://www.ericschlappi.com/   https://schlappiengineering.com/

About: RPE Duo, formed in 2009 during Matt Postle (trumpet) and Radek Rudnicki’s (electronics) PhD studies at the University of York (UK). They have been featured at festivals and toured in the UK, Europe, USA, and New Zealand including the Manchester Jazz Festival and FONT Festival in New York City. Matt Postle (USA) is an improvising trumpet artist currently based in Charlotte, USA. He has worked with a wide range of artists and ensembles including Kenny Wheeler, Ingrid Jensen, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Norwegian Wind Ensemble. He is a full-time music instructor at Central Piedmont Community College (Charlotte, NC) and has taught at several other universities in the US and abroad from 2005-2018. Radek Rudnicki (Poland) is a sound artist and sound designer. He is working with new media, multidisciplinary art and science projects and performs audiovisual works. Radek is creating sound design and composing for immersive experiences, installations, film, contemporary dance and 3D video mapping events

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About: Outsider free improvisation/prepared guitarist and multimedia visual artist Parker Weston is involved with live avant-garde acts around Arizona. He is part of ritual ambient/drone with Butoh Sonics, the sound sculpture/guitar duo Smogma, the space rock/noise jazz collective Claustronaut, and power electronics/death industrial duo Schadenhaus. He also has homemade plunderphonic projects like the no-fi cutups of Sugar Pills Bone (with Teuthis Galore), and the audio cartoon that is the Ɔrinkles (formerly the main force behind the black noise metal act also known as PKWST). In the past he's also made sound collage under the moniker Stembreo, was half of the ambient black metal project Vvltvs, and contributed guitar to comedic black noise legends, Enbilulugugal. in 2015, Weston created a short surreal/abstract film titled "A Kestrel Hive", reenacting cryptic dreams. In 2019, he released 'an audiobook' of past published experimental writings with improv guitar noise and foley sounds, titled 'Deadwood Tr

About: Tom Hall is an Australian audio/visual artist, residing in Los Angeles. Hall's practice is an ongoing exploration into peripheral space and time, inspired by environments and non-linearity found in the everyday. Using multiple approaches to recontextualize these spaces, Hall creates sound and imagery that accumulates in hybrid environments and temporal translations. These outcomes include found and computer programmed sound synthesis, reactive visual synthesis and physical installation. Hall has released a number of recordings in the past two decades, along with exhibitions and live av tours worldwide. Links: http://tomhallsonics.com/Tom_Hall.html https://open.spotify.com/artist/1nkjrC62fTpESe8VovpsIz https://bandcamp.com/tomhallsonics https://twitter.com/ https://soundcloud.com/thall http://www.tomhall.com.au/blog/