Trevor Mathison
Artist, musician, composer, sound designer and recordist Trevor Mathison is a founding member of the renowned cine-cultural artist group, The Black Audio Film Collective (1982-1995). He was also founder of a number of experimental sonic groups, including the dub techno outfit, Hallucinator (1993-2000), the artist collective, Flow Motion (1993-2000), and Dubmorphology, a production and performance […]
Honour
Honour may or may not have grown up in the US, making beats with a cousin who sang in a church band. They might have toured as a roadie with platinum-selling R&B outfit Pretty Ricky before acing regional video game tournaments and moving to NYC. They could have sold their life story to children’s book […]
Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle
Founded in Munich in 1980, legendary German band Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle still plays with their original line-up: Justin Hoffmann on keyboards and guitar, Thomas Meinecke on guitars, cornet and drum pads, Michaela Melián on bass and cello, Wilfried Petzi on guitar, mandolin and trombone. Since 1990, drummer Carl Oesterhelt has been the fifth permanent member, replacing […]
Läuten der Seele
Läuten der Seele is Christian Schoppik, half of the acclaimed experimental dark folk duo Brannten Schnüre from Wurzburg, Germany. For this project, Shoppik uses a mix of sample collages and recorded instruments that are often used sparsely but as load-bearing elements. Delving into German Volksmusik, but jazzing things up with a vast selection of instruments […]
upsammy
Thessa Torsing as upsammy creates interpretative space, cleverly paradoxical in its concurrent, comfort and desolation. With a keen ear for crystalline melody and intricate rhythm, her music sculpts a certain perpetuity and spatiality, sliding across tempo scales, while retaining an organic touch, a gentle hum of nature digitized. In her DJ sets, she takes cues […]
Rave At Your Fictional Borders
Rave At Your Fictional Borders emerges out of a wholehearted belief that the collective we are, is one bio-organism with planet earth and the universe, rendering the human-made concept of borders obsolete. With one foot in and one foot out of societal realities, the trio strives to push the boundaries of genre, infusing the rich […]
Lutto Lento
Lutto Lento is Lubomir Grzelak, sound artist, producer, DJ and co-owner of DUNNO Recordings, based in Warsaw, Poland. Lone ranger, making uncompromising decisions when it comes to publishing, producing and playing music, achieving blissful states through recontextualization. Inspired equally by post-war avant-garde and indigenous music of Native Americans as well as dancehall and raw off-beat […]
Myriam Van Imschoot & HYOID
For newpolyphonies, Myriam Van Imschoot was inspired by insects, climate marches and the recent manifestations against cutbacks in the arts and in society. Her guiding principle is not the loud chanting of the crowd, but the experience that each individual, like a link in a chain, can set a vortex of sounds in motion. In […]
Carrier
Carrier, aka Guy Brewer has always existed in the hinterlands of electronic music. He began to experiment with sound in the mid-1990s, using a rudimentary setup for his early attempts at drum ‘n’ bass. Ever in search of a new challenge, his head was turned by the quickly evolving, crepuscular sounds emerging from the techno […]
Les certitudes
Juliette Adam on clarinet, Judith Hamann on cello and Léo Dupleix on harpsichord are Les Certitudes. Their music focuses on tones and tuning, working through long musical forms made up of layers and slowly displacing matters. Their music is composed by Léo Dupleix, while the musical direction is the result of a collective spirit. The […]