Data Cult Audio

About: Benjamin Braman is a multimedia designer and musician. The body of his current work aims to explore newfound techniques of resurfacing abandoned media with an emphasis on video synthesis and circuit bent analog electronics. Through his discovery of methods that reclaim a wide range of materials, he provides a sense of audio visual revival and transcendence to a more atmospherical and ethereally based platform. He avidly presents his work through different avenues of collaboration with other artists, using dynamic and improvisational performance frameworks with his audio visual project GLOB, the experimental art ensemble Datura, and solo project Amethyst Seer. Links: https://www.amethystseer.com/ https://vimeo.com/333443464/1cc3c1e382

4 Airports is a collaboration between guitarist Craig Chin and synthesist Nathan Yeager. Together they create improvised electronic soundscapes, exploring weird sonic terrain and deep ambient textures. Links: Craig Chin - www.errant.space Nathan Yeager - https://campfiresedge.bandcamp.com 4 Airports - https://4airports.bandcamp.com/

About: Peter Grenader has an enduring history in electronic music. From having studied music composition at the California Institute of the Arts under Barry Schrader and Morton Subotnick, to having been past member of the SEAMUS board of directors, and the founder/primary designer of EAR/Plan B Synthesizers and their primary designer. He has performed throughout the United States and Europe, and in 2001, he won the Periòdic Experimental Music Festival in Barcelona, Spain.
 He has been a featured composer at the 17th American Composer’s Forum Salon in Venice and  performed at  REDCAT in Los Angeles with Analoglive! with film composer Gary Chang, Alessandro Cortini, Richard Devine, Chas Smith, Thighpaulsandra, and video artist Paul Tzanetopoulos. 
Recent collaborations include The zZyzx Society with Jill Fraser and featuring Thighpaulsandra, Chas Smith. Jennifer Irvine, Katherine Redlus and Danny Carey of Tool, The Third Ear with Shiro Fujioka and Doug Lynner and POV with guitarist Miles Richmond and featuring

Darion Bradley is Black Box Theory. A self taught musician that derives his music from a broad spectrum of influences. Growing up in a household that played everything from Gospel and R&B to Prince, Darion was open to discovery in many genres as a kid. His curiosity led him to discover genres such as Metal and Dubstep rather organically. As a young teenager he taught himself music production via the internet and cracked software. This experimentation at a young age helped him to define his philosophy about making music; keep things simple. Simple ideas and deep layers are the focus of Darion’s music. Finding a solid groove that defines his sound to his audience has been his obsession since day one. Over the past 10 years he has worked on perfecting a sound that creates powerful moments foe his listeners. He has only started performing live in the past few years, but loves the responses he gets from the audiences. Currently, he spends much of his time producing, and releasing music. Links: https://blackbox

Data Cult Audio 0104 - Gerald Fjörd by DC Audio

About: Jill Fraser is a composer and electronic music pioneer. She was mentored by Morton Subotnick, studied with Mel Powell and Earle Brown at CalArts and attended master classes with, among others John Cage and Lou Harrison. After finishing her master’s degree in composition she worked at Serge Modular in Hollywood and took her modular synths into the Hollywood studios to score films. Her composing credits on film scores include Personal Best directed by Robert Towne with collaborator, the infamous composer Jack Nitzsche and Hardcore (starring George C Scott, directed by Paul Schrader). Jill has composed both electronic and acoustic music for hundreds of TV commercials for Lexus, BMW, Honda, Porsche, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Mattel, Carl’s Jr, NBC, Apple Computers, Adidas, Estee Lauder, Baskin Robbins, Yamaha Motorcycles and many, many others. She has won 3 Clios for original music and is a voting member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She toured with singer Buffy Sainte Marie and perfo

About: Caleb Wood under the alias of 'precocious mouse' has been experimenting with sound as a conceptual tool since the release of his first album, '2_3/.dll (grey circuits)' on the Sicilian experimental netlabel 'Brusio' in 2010. Based in London, but taking influence also from his native Yorkshire - a region with both a long history of sonic experimentation and decaying industrial infrastructures, he has worked under the aliases 'precocious mouse' and ',' and more recently 'reference hardware' (the first and last of which have both been used for various iterations of an ongoing live performance entitled '.seance') exploring methods to construct pieces which have a conceptual base in the fragmentation and complexity of the processes of communication. In recent years these works have found a home on the label / collective 'threadneedle community' which the artist co-curates, as well as more activity through live performances in his home city of London after wider live performances in Berlin, Paris, Sicily a

About: Zy_Gote is the electronic music project of ATL/LA musician, Stan Pavlov. Zy_Gote draws upon various electronic influences such as industrial, noise, and techno to create something altogether unique. Pavlov has also collaborated with electronic hardcore artist UTEROZZZAAA on various releases in Japan and the United States. Zy_Gote became a part of the revival of the industrial power noise label/collective Crunchpod in 2016. Links: https://mnfctr.wixsite.com/crunchpod?lightbox=dataItem-ixlycnfn1 https://www.facebook.com/ZGNOISEMUSIC/ https://crunchpod.bandcamp.com/album/god-killer https://crunchpod.bandcamp.com/album/potential-for-destruction https://soundcloud.com/user-460683692

About: A lifelong expatriate, Bana Haffar was born in Saudi Arabia in 1987 and spent much of her childhood in the GCC. Through her switch from 10 years of electric bass to modular synthesizers in 2014, Bana is attempting to dismantle years of institutional ‘conditioning’ in traditional systems of music theory and performance. She is interested in exploring sonic disintegration and coalescence into new forms and synthesized experiences. Haffar is also the co-founder of Modular on the Spot, a monthly outdoor synth happening that began on the Los Angeles river and has since spread nationally and globally. Links: https://soundcloud.com/banahaffarmusic https://twitter.com/banahaffar https://www.discogs.com/artist/4031728-Bana-Haffar https://www.instagram.com/sinusoidaltendencies https://banahaffar.bandcamp.com/

About: c1t1zen has been releasing electronic music since 1998 with the sounds of trip-hop, electronica and ambient music. Early work on a RISD student compilation earned airtime on WFMU. His music was also featured on KSPC's Synthdactyl Program with a live in studio performance. Live sets include vintage analog gear with a homemade DIY eurorack rig. Past performances include Serge Synthesizerís 40th Anniversary Show, Modular On The Spot 2nd Anniversary and the Earmeal podcast. Links: https://c1t1zen.com https://www.instagram.com/c1t1zen

About: Antonio Steve Tublén is a Swedish film director/writer/whatever. The award winning lo-fi Science Fiction LFO was created with his fascination for strange sounds mixed with his dark humour and was executive produced by Elijah Wood and his company SpectreVision. His English debut feature film; the dark comedy ZOO is now doing the film festival circuit and to be released later this year. About the music: Montage of rough and dirty lo-fi improv performances with only the Buchla Easel + looper + effect pedals. Recorded live straight to stereo. No overdubs etc… Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alan_smithee_040/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-315321379/sets/cacophony.

About: an Boddy has been composing & performing Electronic Music since the late 1970’s. Having fallen in love with the sound-worlds of German electronic bands such as Tangerine Dream, he came across an arts centre that housed a studio filled with reel-to-reel tape machines and analogue synthesisers. He very quickly started performing concerts & releasing three cassette albums in the early 1980’s followed by a further three vinyl albums. By the 1990’s he was regularly releasing music on CD as well as performing both in the UK & on the continent. He also developed further musical strands of activity with his sound design work releasing a series of critically acclaimed sample sound libraries & virtual instruments as well as composing an impressive roster of library music tracks, most notably for DeWolfe. In 1999 he set up the DiN ambient electronica label which sees it’s 20th anniversary this year. There has been over 80 releases on this label with contributions from an international roster of artists such as

About: Art Electronix is a Ukrainian electronic project by two sound producer (Katerina and Yevgeny) from the city of Krivoy Rog, combined with interest in various stylistic genres, ranging from dance music in acid, techno and drum&bass styles, to minimalist audio spaces of ambient pastorals or even interdimensional cosmic noise. When creating their audio paintings musicians trying to convey images of industrial landscapes of the city. Their music have a retro-futuristic sound that can be described as a journey into the depths of minimalism, analog overdrive and electrical digital clicks, howl and crunch of high voltage capacitors, sometimes turning into mechanically drum machine dance beat, and then returning back to the sound of a loose vacuum ambient. Art Electronix's activity connected with music programming, constant search of original sounding, development of art performances and live concerts, experimental quality music production, and many other art forms. While producing cross-genre music for 10 y

About: Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish musician and sound artist who builds and performs with hybrid analogue/digital instruments. She is a “positively ferocious improvisor” (Cycling ‘74), her music refusing to sit nicely between free improv, experimental pop, techno, and noise. Over the last decade she has developed and honed a deliberately challenging and unpredictable performance system that explores the relationships between bodies, sound, environments, and technology. The Wire described her most recent album MANIPULATION (pan y rosas discos) as “skittering melodies and clip-clopping rhythms suggesting a mischievous intelligence emerging from this web of wires”. She is a member of the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop and currently lives in Arizona where she teaches electronic music. Originally broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Commissioned by hcmf//  Links: laurensarahhayes.com instagram.com/elleesaich soundcloud.com/elleesaich twitter.com/elleesaich laurensarahhayes.bandcamp.com pariesa.com

About: Jörgen Kjellgren is a music maker and producer from Stockholm, Sweden. He is a free-range sound designer, musician and songwriter. In 2018 he released five EPs of ambient music, He and his wife, Anna Maria, also released a few tracks as pop duo under the name, Little Boxes. "I made these tracks during a period of heightened creativity that eventually shifted into a few nights of insomnia. Maybe it comes through at the end of the set, that slow, sluggish feeling." Some of the tracks from this episode of Data Cult Audio will be released as an EP after they air here on the podcast. The audio for this episode of Data Cult Audio was mastered by Nathan Moody at Obsidian Sound (obsidiansound.net). Links: https://jorgenkjellgren.bandcamp.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/49dj9JMf1fRLv9VqBggYfi?si=XG-f3h46TNG5heCa88soeQ https://soundcloud.com/jorgenkjellgren

About: Swiss born and LA based Olivier B. Egli aka Sir Archibald Palmer aka Nundale has been involved in electronic music since his early teens. Fascinated by the darker tunes of industrial and electronic body music as well as the rolling punch of early 90s hiphop, he went on to produce beats for Swiss and German acts and released his first EP at the age of 15. In his tracks he seeks to live out his passion for meticulously constructed and micro edited beats (some of which he plays live), processed snares, ratcheting hi hats, twisted breakbeats and unexpected chord progressions. The trained drummer and pianist focusses his musical energy on creating bridges between beat exploration and harmonic research without giving neither one priority but rather finding a haunting balance that moves the body as much as the mind and projects mental pictures strong enough to feel the music rather than just hearing it. Links: https://linktr.ee/nundale https://instagram.com/nundale https://soundcloud.com/nundale

Since 2009, Proud/Father has been the main recording project of Shining Fields. Based in New Orleans, Proud/Father combines droning ambient textures pulled from field recordings, manipulated samples, guitar loops, and processed synthesizers to create a sprawling soundscape of fading memories housed in cassettes. He performs regularly in New Orleans and is in the process of planning his 5th U.S tour, hopefully bringing his music closer to you. This hour of audio features a mix of brand new recordings, live excerpts, and tracks taken from incomplete albums and sketches, from which Proud/Father regularly pulls from. Everything Many thanks to Emma K. for playing guitar on segment 3. 00:00-06:18 Communer of the Solare Tempel 06:18-10:22 The Sunlight Breaks over the Black Pearl 10:22-14:00 It was as though we floated trough the afternoon in a raft in the trees 14:00-21:46 Watashinoyume 21:46-33:16 Live at Coaxial, Los Angeles 1/9/18 excerpt 33:16-41:56 Live at the Mudlark Public

A music producer and diy nerd fiddling around with knobs and modular patches. Although she is a padawan her music comes from the dark side. It is moody and thumping. Her first steps were using software. Soon she started combining it with hardware, then modular. Her set up is constantly changing. Currently she mixes modular with stand -alone synthesizers, passing them through fx modules in her eurorack to add 'that warm effect’. Her journey began in 2014 when she co-founded an electronic music production school called Beatlabs. Somewhere along the way she discovered Befaco’s modular system. It was here she discovered her true passion… building synthesizers. She started building her own eurorack system, and eventually ended up working for Befaco. Since then she has worked for other manufacturers such as Winter Modular, Error Instruments, and Koma Elektronik. Currently she is working at Patch Point. Flavia believes that modular has changed her perception and production of music, however the one thing that

About: Los Angeles born and raised happa native (African+Japanese)  Shiro Fujioka, VoltageCtrlr aka Ghetto Gandalf The FrequenSeer,  One who sees alternative realms through sound and vibration.  Shiro is a multi instrumentalist / song writer / producer / composer.  His main instrument is an analog modular synthesizer, drum machines, singing bowls, tabla and samplers. He produces music in a host of different styles ranging from downtempo, hip hop, modbap, dub, idm, experimental, ambient, jazz and rock. Links: youtube.com/user/VoltageCtrlrTV Streaming all platforms: Shiro Fujioka IG: @voltagectrlr @audibleobjects web: audibleobjects.com

About: TL3SS describes his sound as dark electronics. He uses modular synthesizers to create complex rhythmic soundscapes with a trace of industrial flair and a heavy dose of power electronics. Links: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMonthsbehind https://www.instagram.com/tl3ss/ https://soundcloud.com/tl3ss https://tl3ss.bandcamp.com/