Data Cult Audio

About: PTNA aka Justin Olson began his music journey with the Violin at age 3. By the time he was in college, Justin shared his songs in live performances and open mics building confidence as a performer, and learn the satisfaction of sharing his creations with the world. As an artist, it is easy to become lost in your head and process, live performance is a very important tool to receive feedback and input that guides your creative output and can give you the needed confidence to share it with the world. In 2014, Justin began his journey into Synthesizers, Electronic Drums, Samplers and Drum Machines. Since 2014, Justin has focused on creating musical projects, performances and albums on his Eurorack Modular. He has released 20 + albums of music during this time-frame and has enjoyed the process of patching a song over hours to days and then performing it live and capturing the performance. Justin has performed around the state of Arizona including: Tempe Center for the Arts “ Singer Songwriters Showcase” in partnership with PBS, “Knock the Blues out of Hunger” Blues Festival, Glendale Folk Festival, Weekly “Fun Fridays” at the Tempe Center for the Arts and most recently, a live Eurorack Modular Performance at , “ Wireheads” in downtown Phoenix. Justin enjoys introducing people to Modular synthesis and being a knowledgeable resource to expose and bring students into the area of study and creation. His mission is to help guide newcomers through the vast market of gear, resource material and introducing them to basic skills that build on each other and provide a strong foundation to continue their very personal journey of building their own Modular instrument. Justin is currently a modular Synthesizer instructor and has taught at the Academy of Modern Music Production (AMMP) in Mesa, AZ. Links: https://ptna.bandcamp.com/ http://m.soundcloud.com/ptna

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 seires Rendevous 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://sleepofeons.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/sleepofeons https://facebook.com/sleepofeons

Data Cult Audio 0267 - Blakmoth by DC Audio

About: Yates is an Atlanta native artist. He spent his early years on drums and guitar in metal bands before discovering synths in the early 90's. He has an avid love for the sonic artistry of early industrial acts and how they performed. He currently finds himself in a few musical pathways from creating songs for Internet personalities, scores and sound fx for local film makers, and also a long time musical partner and he are developing a "band" based around live electronics inspired by how Author and punisher and Skinny Puppy plays instruments. He, like many others in the synth world, found himself deep in the modular wormhole. Yates Has a firm belief that his rig knows what he is feeling and knows how to spit it back out at him in ways you wouldn't expect. This session was recorded while under the thumb of chaotic life happenings during the month of sept 2022. It represents a lot of emotions from anger to peace. A sonic pallet swirling inside a black hole millions of light years away from earth. Links: https://yateszaldevour.bandcamp.com

Bio:  Ecotech is a solo electronic music project started by Zachary Sedefian in January 2021. Ecotech often releases dub techno or deep house tracks, but he also records a lot of other music. His submission to Data Cult Audio is an amalgamation of experiments he made in Upstate New York and Lima, Peru. The first half is an exploration of the MengQi Wing Pinger as an instrument, accompanied by a Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus, Lorre-Mill DoubleKnot, and eurorack modular synthesizer. In the second half Ecotech used a Charango (traditional Andean instrument), iPhone, and Cocoquantus to make contemplative grainy soundscapes. This recording combines an interest in the limits of frequency modulation and ping with time-stretched garden sounds and false nostalgia. Links:  https://ecotech.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/Ecotechnologist https://www.instagram.com/ecotechnologist_/

About: A.M. Filipkowski is fascinated by dystopian fiction. This is the starting point for his aural projects. He attributes this to growing up in inner city Detroit, and watching as the city seemed to die around him. Remnants of industry diminished into a barren wasteland engraved a mark on him that is expressed in the sounds he creates. He is also the founding mind behind Data Cult Audio. Links: Bandcamp: https://datacultaudio.bandcamp.com/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/DataCultAudio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacultaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-cult-audio/id1234835844 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/datacultaudio Twitter: https://twitter.com/DataCultAudio Web: http://datacultaudio.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Datacultaudio

About: Dexba, in his awkward first attempt at talking about himself in the third person, is an Italian musician in love with big soundtracks, ambient noise, and chants coming from the rocky steppe. He started his journey as a cellist, swore he would never work in an orchestra, and decided to move on to synthesizers in order to play more than one note at a time. Born too late to own property, too late to be La Monte Young, and even too late to be a YouTube star, Dexba is trying to find his way in music and maybe this podcast is a sign he is on the right path. Links: https://www.youtube.com/c/Dexba https://www.instagram.com/dexbasynth https://dexba.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/dexbasynth

About: Rodrigo Passannanti is an Italian-born electronic musician based in London UK at the forefront of numerous productions and world-wide releases including bespoke compositions for Sync-music, Caprisar Productions, Media music manager and Warner/Chappell Music as global publisher. Links: https://rodrigopassannanti.bandcamp.com/music https://www.facebook.com/rodrigo.passannanti https://music.apple.com/us/artist/hypercube/159239163 https://soundcloud.com/rodrigopassannanti https://www.instagram.com/rodrigo.passannanti/

About: (As per Aelk Minsur) I'm blessed to be able to do what I love for a living. As an industrial and commercial electrician, I spend my days with badasses building badass stuff. It's incredibly fulfilling to be a part of large scale projects and build things that get put to use everyday. Each construction site has a strong energy - energy from the site itself and especially from the people that work there. It's a loud and in-your-face energy that has a positive, forward momentum. This recording is a distillation of that energy. Some of the beats are brand new and some are taken from my album, "Everything is a Nail". Shoutout to the Data Cult Audio crew for inviting me back. Be sure to support them at their Patreon. I hope you enjoy this set. Turn it up to 11 and bang your head! Links: https://linktr.ee/aelkminsur

About: Glinca is Tazio Iacobacci, a composer from Sicily, Italy. In the early ‘90's he started making music as a drummer with several noise bands. In 2002 he joined a band called “Tellaro", a slow core project signed to 2nd Records which put out four releases. At the same time he developed his interest in composing music ranging from acoustic to electronic soundscapes and he mainly did this under the moniker "Pola" (three records, the first released on Ionik Recordings). He joined several productions as a drummer, guitarist and programming electronic stuff. Actually he started making music with modular synths under the “Glinca" moniker and put out three records, the last one on Werra Foxma Records. "In general, the way I compose does not follow a pre-determined path.Sometimes I search for a sound.Melodic lines are often extrapolated by a process of subtraction: I make a pattern of 16 random notes, I keep 4 or 5 of them, just to make things clear. I leave a lot of room for randomness and in this particular respect, modular synths are perfect. I am into the idea of preserving as much as possible the random melodic line I get from the overall modular process. Lately I've been trying to write music with just a few lines, no superstructures. For instance, the tracks I'm writing right now are compositions with two oscillators and only two melodic lines. No overdubs, pretty stripped down and minimalistic." Links: https://glinca.bandcamp.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Cn6XI5iZOGTvJkU8f272T https://www.instagram.com/glincamusic

About: Analog Monoxide is frequently mistaken for being the name of a group, but is in reality a working alias of Stian Høyberg, musician and producer from Norway. The music released under this banner is typically a huge mix of various influences over the years, ranging from experimental electronica to acoustic jazz, and anything in between. Composition usually happens in his home studio, and is a very free-form process. He started out as a piano player at an early age, and has worked for over 30 years honing his skills on guitars, vocals, drums, percussion, keyboards, synthesizers, and other instruments along the way. While studying music, learning to play jazz, and working with an analog studio recording to 8track tape, he also discovered computers and their increasing capabilities as music tools, while also allowing access to sampling and software emulation of synthesis. The workflow has undergone changes over time, with the development of technology and better tools, but it's essentially the same today. Currently heavily into the combination of Eurorack and various other hardware integrated with Bitwig, and loving this new workflow. About this set: These tunes are all either from recent live performances on various hardware/software combined, or done in studio within the last few weeks, as hardware/modular jams multitracked into Bitwig, then given some post production. Links: https://linktr.ee/analogmonoxide https://www.youtube.com/analogmonoxide https://www.instagram.com/analogmonoxide/ https://analogmonoxide.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/analogmonoxide/

About: [moos] is an electronic music producer from the Netherlands. “I've been making music for over 20 years: electro, dubstep, techno, dub, ambient. For three years now I've been focussing on modular synths, which I find truly inspiring. I did live modbap sets (modular + hiphop beats), glitchy tracks and lofi ambient pieces. Something that's always present in my music is a feeling of melancholy. When I create stuff, I start with an idea, start patching and develop it further. In that process the modular always brings me to new unexpected sound territories. Everything is recorded straight to stereo, no overdubs or edits on the computer. This is challenging but also very rewarding - once it's done it's done.” For Data Cult Audio [moos] created and recorded a new modular set. Enjoy. Links: BandCamp ► moos4.bandcamp.com/releases Instagram ► instagram.com/moosdohmen Spotify ► open.spotify.com/artist/69IMlvgP7PXhl3TXyCgoR5?si=AcRwv6NIQXeTvzD-tmHPhw All music, videos ► linktr.ee/moosdohmen

Luca Francini is a music composer and producer for media. In his quest to find new sounds he discovered the Eurorack world; being able to establish a direct connection between me and the sound in its rawest form is what he find fascinating and inspiring. When Luca is in front of his modules and synths he enjoy creating experimental, generative soundscapes where the listener can loose themselves, meditate or just relax. Links: www.youtube.com/lucafrancinimusic www.Instagram.com/lucafrancinimusic

About: Production Unit Xero (PUX) is an American electronic musician who has been cultivating high-quality IDM that stirs emotions and expands the mind since circa 2001. His work, which also heavily incorporates ambient, electro and breakbeat constructions, evokes the likes of Jega, early Mike Paradinas projects, and Proem. While many like-minded artists who explore the fragmentation and deconstruction of electronic music hot rod down the proverbial bit-crushed strip of plugins and knob twiddling to only forget the importance of emotional connection, Ramon does not fall into this trap. Instead his work summons the spiritual and emotional element that often escapes experimental electronic music. His work takes me elsewhere and this is an important variable that I look for in art. Mr. Mills who resides in Portland Oregon, is an active member of Portland's vibrant live hardware scene and also runs the exquisite and stealthy net label Heterodox Records – which boasts a fine selection of experimental electronic releases from an assortment of underdogs and low profile programming wizards. Links: https://heterodoxrecords.com/artists/production-unit-xero/ https://ra.co/reviews/34817 https://instabio.cc/Puxflux

About: James Staub has spent the last ten years composing music through the design of electroacoustic systems and processes. Pieces are constructed from a tapestry of recorded improvisations for guitar, upright bass, cello and a vast toolkit of original interactive music software. Staub's work as a music technologist and programmer centers on the development of real-time human-computer improvisation. These tools employ machine listening and synthesis techniques to interpret and play along with instrumental improvisations. The incidental and the imperfect nature of his custom made audio programs create a dynamic, texture-rich interplay between acoustic and electronic voices. This mix for Data Cult Audio contains selections from several of James' albums (released under the name Muddy Wires), as well as unreleased studio material. Links: https://muddywires.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/jamesstaub https://www.instagram.com/j_a_m_e_s__a__s_t_a_u_b/

About: Gloom Mountain Gospel is a electronic duo of Jason Vapor and Goldie Paris from the mountains of East Tennessee. They create what they call Electro Gloom a mix of ambient soundscapes and driving drums. They have been creating music together since 2016 with several albums and singles independently released and the last two albums released on Heterodox Records. Links: www.gloommountaingospel.com

About: Android Superstar is the result of monkeys cohabitating with machines. The result is electronic noise distilled into pulsing beats. Links: https://datacultaudio.bandcamp.com/music

ABOUT: Stefano Trezzi, sound engineer and musician, in 2018 approaches modular synthesis and experimental music. He explores and is guided by the various sounds that are generated consciously or not, building a changing story. His sound is a walk through different atmospheres in order and chaos, created by synths, effects, samplers and sounds of the world. The result is a changing flow of ideas, sounds, instinct and emotions. Stefano is a member of the family, Milano Modulare, a collective of musicians who keep the world of modular synthesis alive in the Milanese hinterland with events and unique live performances. As a bassist and guitarist, he collaborates in productions with different artists from the alternative-rock and hip hop scenes of Brianza and Milan. About the track: Sunset is a live performance recorded during a live show in Milan, all sounds come from modular synths and pedal effects. LINKS: https://www.instagram.com/stefano_trezzi/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/7lYEm3Kc3uETMi8Ak0jvsa https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP0VPmkhtFlu6bL_L5gh_Zg https://soundcloud.com/user-746849781-448050630 https://www.facebook.com/stefano.trezzi.3 https://www.mixcloud.com/MilanoModulare/

About: "shrill thru worlds, the enereph calls!" Connie Fu plays the enereph, one of many characters in her audiovisual universe. She weaves together sounds that remind her of home. In this piece. Octatrack, Digitone, and Hydrasynth recordings are arranged with lap steel guitar*, modular, and soft synth sounds. Peking opera samples and recitations of her poetry offer a glimpse into the inner world. She lives in Seattle with her rabbits Frank and Akemie and can be found working at Patchwerks, the local synth shop. Split album 'premoniss / Bukimi no Tani Genshō' with Production Unit Xero set to be released 2/12/22 on Heterodox Records. *gratitude to Maluhia Castillo for the lap steel > Night Sky jam on 12/21/21. Links: Heterodox Records: https://heterodoxrecords.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/_enereph/ Bandcamp: https://enereph.bandcamp.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwe8PraHAbLCutZkUoZ_NLQ

About: JacqNoise- In her compositions, JacqNoise is looking for the spot where rhythms cross each other's paths. She is deconstructing sounds in order to understand the symphony and the themes that are reflected in it. Andreas Krach-  Andreas Krach spends sleepless nights with crunchy electronic sounds, deriving from circuit bent instruments, no-input mixers and analogue synthesizers. Lots of analogue synthesizers. Besides creating exotic sound he also  built the bulky bleep machine "Krach der Robotter" that haunts clubs and venues on a regular basis. Links: JacqNoise- www.facebook.com/jacqsbook/ www.instagram.com/jacqnoise/ Andreas Krach- www.facebook.com/KrachDerRoboter www.instagram.com/andreas_krach/

About: Novak The Enjoyer is an electronic artist from Los Angeles, CA. Established in 2016 through the discovery of modular synthesizers, Novak released his debut album “Modular Synth Patches Vol. 1” (2018) through bandcamp. Links: https://novaktheenjoyer.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/novaktheenjoyer/

About: Alien worlds, dystopian/utopian deep futures, otherworldly forces, ancient Gods, malevolent AIs, these are the auditory evocations woven by Annelid: an experimental audio/visual project employing modular synthesizers and generative/algorithmic techniques to weave dark ambient soundscapes and visions heavily inspired by science fiction and horror themes. "Annelid" as a moniker is inspired by the cult-classic sci-fi horror rpg System Shock 2, as a nod to one of the most quintessential hive-mind organisms in fiction. Relax, close your eyes, and dissolve into the void. Links: https://annelidvisions.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/annelidvisions https://www.instagram.com/annelid_visions/

About: Theodore The Blacksmith is the main project of Recording Artist Theo Harper (co founder of the noize project W.A.S.T.E. and long time member of the band Manufactura. the blacksmith project has a gravitational focus on mental health and darkness.. P M R (psycho motor retardation) is the brighter side of the spectrum with light hearted melodies with more subject matter driven motivations. Links: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/aiDgc https://instagram.com/theodore_the_blacksmith

About: Worst Night Ever uses a combination of found sounds, generated sounds, and really old sounds no one cares about anymore to create ambient tracks and noise suitable for dark journeys. This is what happens when you stay up so late your refrigerator starts to sound like music. From Queens and Brooklyn NYC. LINKS: https://worstnightever.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/worstnightever

About: Shane Mendonsa is a composer who's worked for almost two decades on award-winning independent films, documentaries, blockbuster Bollywood movies and top charting electronic music across all major platforms and avenues. His latest adventure is making plant music and videos, and as a practicing sound healer is actively exploring the healing effects of music on bodies and spaces. For the Data Cult podcast, Shane has chosen to share generative plant music from his plant series called Signs of Life. Jade Finger and Eucalyptus are from his latest album, House Plants, and Lavender is from Herb Garden. The podcast playlist also includes an unreleased computer generated performance called Causality. You can find Shane's plant music on Bandcamp and on his YouTube channel, where he has made videos for each song. Links: Website - https://www.shanemendonsa.com Bandcamp - https://shanemendonsa.bandcamp.com YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpjl7axNrHYPh53gezouYxA Instagram - @shanemendonsa

About: Spank.AU is Berlin-based experimental synthesist and composer mainly influenced by ambient, house and techno Links: Instagram ► https://bit.ly/3liwG7t Soundcloud ► https://bit.ly/3A6Vndp Bandcamp ► https://bit.ly/3mh2g6a Youtube ► https://bit.ly/392zT5v Spotify ► https://spoti.fi/3CfA6PT

About: Wild Wild Mike is a Los Angeles-based electronic musician whose works explore the homemade spirituality of New Age Music and its edges and overlaps with Ambient, Noise, and Pop Music. Using generative sequencing and a heavy use of resampling layered with aggressively processed vocals, his music touches on the alienation, play, joy, and sorrow reverberating beneath the perpetual sunset. He is a founding member of the kosmische band ON. Links https://wildwildmike.bandcamp.com/releases

About: Jellotonin Lopez is a 26yo multimedia artist from Tucson, Arizona. When she isnt co-hosting events or editing podcast episodes for her collective, Inner Freq, she noodles on her keyboard and modular synths. For this set she tried something new and created it all in Ableton Live. Links: https://www.instagram.com/jellotonin/ https://twitter.com/jellotonin1 https://www.instagram.com/innerfrq/ https://www.tiktok.com/@innerfreq https://www.youtube.com/innerfreq

About: C.K. Sample aka cksample is a Dallas-based electronic music producer and founding member of the soon to be announced [REDACTED] Collective: music producers using a variety of electronic musical instruments to explore new territories of sound design, performing live shows in person and streaming online, and playing at upcoming festivals near you with new techno drops regularly. The vast majority of his techno is at 133bpm and in a blues scale, because he's a recovering guitarist who gave up playing guitar solos with bands and decided to become his own band through the very expensive magic of eurorack synthesizers. He plays on 670HP of gear that he refers to as "The Mothership" and his Akai Force. Audience members have described his music as "good," as "grunge groovy techno," "jazzy techno," and as "melodic spacey galactica techno." C.K. streams multiple times a week to both Earth Modular Society and Blast Radio and reposts his performances regularly to his YouTube and Bandcamp "Streams" ever-growing album. This performance was recorded live, then lightly mastered and prepared for streaming to your ears. Listen either cranked with large stereo speakers or with headphones. Links: https://cksample.com https://instagram.com/cksamplenoodling https://youtube.com/c/cksample https://cksample.bandcamp.com https://www.transductionsignal.com/collective https://www.6amgroup.com/trovarsi-c-k-sample-team-up-to-explore-new-territories-of-sound-design/

About: 'In the church of my heart the choir is on fire' - Vladimir Mayakovsky Links: https://www.instagram.com/burning_the_church/

About: Lina Filipovich is a Belarusian artist and musician based in Paris. Her works explore the relationship between audio and visuals and span a variety of media, including found footage films, experimental electronic music, painting, silkscreening and performance. Working with samples and loops, Lina Filipovich uses techniques of sound collage, musical montage, cut-up and appropriation. Links: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/467gxnxunzZ4c2vptKDr6r iTunes: https://music.apple.com/fr/album/magnificat/1579993913 Bandcamp: https://linafilipovich.bandcamp.com/releases Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-12021770 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linafilipovich/

About: Over the years spent along the various paths of sound synthesis, many names have changed, many genres have been produced, many lives have been lived, but the important thing is that now uncertainty makes us discover new lands. Today the primary activity is sound design and electronic compositions with a cinematic approach to try to disconnect the listener from reality for a while. A bit of meditation immersed in sound, out of respect for Silence. -Tym Frost Links: https://tymfrost.bandcamp.com/follow_me https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCknEXeA0LLn0L3qc9nJdf9w?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.facebook.com/tymfrost https://www.instagram.com/tymfrost.music/ https://soundcloud.com/tymfrost/tracks

About: Rafael Timoner has been working on visual arts, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and video installations, under a minimalist and conceptual style, and for more than 30 years. He has numerous exhibitions, individual and collective, in Spain and in many other countries. His art works are present in numerous public and private art collections, with some sculptures installed in public spaces in Spain. Since 2012 he has been working and experimenting with sound. At first Rafael was working with software and virtual synthesizers and plugins, later with semi-modular, and finally discovering the universe of eurorack and modular synthesis. After three years of experimentation, learning, and selection, he set up his own system based on eurorack modules. His system is based on Serge Eurorack R*S, Catalyst Audio Bucha Serie 100, and Verbos Electronics,. It's versatility allows him to develop and create his new sonic proposals. Links: https://linktr.ee/rtimoner https://rafaeltimoner.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/RafaelTimonerAVA https://www.instagram.com/rafaeltimoner/?hl=es https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCixTgpzo2UzkklgEPMLnzjg https://modular-station.com/modulisme/session/49/

About: Luke Killen is a musician from Sydney, Australia who produces music and imagined spaces using modular synthesizers. At the turn of the century, he co-ran the Record label Couchblip His practice has been concerned with exploring the edges of established genre confines, while ensuring that he makes it a difficult as possible for himself by using a modular synthesizers to reach goals probably better achieved by using microphones and a computer. He has been doing this to himself since 1998. Links: https://www.youtube.com/lukekillen https://www.instagram.com/clocks_divide/ https://lukekillen.bandcamp.com/

About: Residing in Los Angeles, California, Jnatra is an multi-instrumentalist, producer, and musician. He started making music during the stay at home orders during 2020 and turned one of the spare rooms in his house into a music studio. He creates sonic landscapes using different mediums from eurorack synths, psychedelic guitar effects, and vocal modulation, mixing different textures into song. Links: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7HjAVRA4LhKw6ni7TVL7vD?si=hj_ffZsHRXyRlqHCjYwYlw&dl_branch=1 https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/PJBhqt8itJsveL1UA https://instagram.com/jnatra_?utm_medium=copy_link https://jnatra.bandcamp.com/

About: Megan Leber is a Rotterdam based producer, sound designer and live performer who drags you deep into a dark ocean of soundscapes, profound basslines and airy percussion. She combines her modular system with other hardware and ensures you will eventually always resurface. Links: https://www.instagram.com/meganleber/ https://soundcloud.com/meganleber https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6CyZKlnYJlBAlZm_Y8QBOA https://blastradio.com/meganleber

About Alienated Entity is a musician, sound designer and programmer who has explored sound in different ways since 2015. Before 2015 he played in some metal bands, later transitioning into experimental music and research/study on sound itself. He uses a variety of media to create his works such as analog and digital synthesizers, drum machines, pedals, field recordings, sampling, and programming code (Tidal Cycles). His music goes through dense sound atmospheres, complex rhythms and chaotic musical structures. Links: https://alienatedentity.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/alienatedentity/ https://www.instagram.com/alienatedentity/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZwawsmNs_hXDfoQJbhrHoA https://soundcloud.com/alienatedentity

About: Emotional melodies, rhythms, drones, noises, blips, multilayers of analogue and digital samples sequenced in various machines. Inspired by psychoanalysis, cycling, nature, travelling, space, technology, video games, movie soundtracks, anxiety, death and solitude. Links: https://alexamomtaz.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/alexa-momtaz https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000351962126 https://www.instagram.com/alexamomtaz/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJCexpgRFVGVEA5OkBBPa8Q

About: Saxophonist, synthesist, composer, and producer Warren Walker earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Nevada, Reno and currently tours internationally with his groups The Kandinsky Effect, oddAtlas, Collektor and Twinlux as well as playing in the Daniel Hunter Quartet, and Dirty Elegance. Merging the world of modular synthesizers and music samples sent from musicians of his own galaxy, he traverses elements of electronic music, jazz, ambient, sound poems, dance music and everything in between. Links: www.warrenwalkermusic.com https://www.instagram.com/warrenwalkermusic/

About: A.M. Filipkowski is fascinated by dystopian fiction. This is the starting point for his aural projects. He attributes this to growing up in inner city Detroit, and watching as the city seemed to die around him. Remnants of industry diminished into a barren wasteland engraved a mark on him that is expressed in the sounds he creates. He is also the founding mind behind Data Cult Audio. Links: FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/DataCultAudio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacultaudio/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/…/pod…/data-cult-audio/id1234835844 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/datacultaudio Twitter: https://twitter.com/DataCultAudio Web: http://datacultaudio.com/

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 soundscapes. Links: https://soundcloud.com/aria_cluster https://ariacluster.bandcamp.com/releases https://open.spotify.com/album/4Uu3d4cJoHDSOFgA6T6hdu

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 internationally as a DJ and live performer and has been featured at notable events from Movement Electronic Music Festival to Tresor in Berlin. Goldberg has self-released music and multimedia projects and her output ranges from 4/4 Detroit techno to experimental/avant-garde electronic music. She has written original scores for classic films Le Voyage Dans La Lune and Gojira, including live performances at David Lynch's members-only club, Silencio, in Paris and Armageddon Beachparty in Detroit, respectively. Her latest release, BUILDINGS, is a collaboration with Italian artist and labelmate, SickBoy, released Spring 2021 via Detroit Underground. LINKS: http://bit.ly/rebecca__goldberg www.rebecca-goldberg.com http://313acidqueen.bandcamp.com http://instagram.com/rebecca__goldberg http://instagram.com/313acidqueen http://facebook.com/rebeccagoldbergmusic http://soundcloud.com/rebeccagoldbergmusic http://ra.co/dj/rebeccagoldberg

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 Madison, Moxy produced the sold out show ‘Say A Little Prayer: An Aretha Franklin Celebration' held at the Lincoln Theatre, February 2020. Moxy has also performed and released music as Osea Merdis since 2016. The Osea Merdis project is structured around ideas which are 100% created on analog synths (mainly Moog Mother 32 ecosystem). These ideas, paired with self captured field recordings, contort everyday life into a uniquely identifying audio personality. Moxy's Osea Merdis project is very discerning, emotionally intentional, and based in the need to express the softer side of life even through struggles and sufferings. Links: https://oseamerdis.bandcamp.com https://moxymartinez.bandcamp.com

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://cyberneticohm.bandcamp.com/music

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 Diasporic futurism, critical thinking and leadership, including music technology through the lens of the blues tradition for girls and gender non conforming youth in New York City. 
Intro: Freedom Groove Chapter I. Frae-Frae's Groove Chapter II. Saine Chapter III. Quantum Quadrille (a reimagining of the traditional 1800s dance craze popularized in New Orleans)   www.groovediplomacy.org - an NGO inspired by the creative & healing principles of spirituals, blues, jazz and improvisation. A groove makes you move; movement creates unity, community & change! Youth Big Band Siberia 2018 - https://youtu.be/4XoSTnoJEVQ Youth Big Band, Siberia, Russia 2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyeVr8Pgxsc&feature=youtu.be Drum Solo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuo1_4o60LI Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/groovediplomacy/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Sonic-Black-236810456367707