Data Cult Audio

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 real-time using a small battery powered lunchbox modular synth. The results are a new take on found sounds - found melodies. The source code for Scott’s tools is open source and available on Github and you can watch some of his guerrilla composing sessions on

Links:

https://scottmetoyer.com/

https://scottmetoyer.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6qQ9vhT0IvLRzNUQu7g51W

https://www.youtube.com/user/scottmetoyer

Instagram @scottmetoyermusic.

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:

http://soundcloud.com/trovarsiofficial

http://instagram.com/trovarsiofficial

http://instagram.com/socalsynthsociety

https://www.facebook.com/Trovarsiofficial/

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. He is performing with live musicians, sequencers, groove machines and modular synthesizers.

Links:

http://mattpostlemusic.com

http://radek-rudnicki.net/

http://www.wavefolder.net/~~~/rpe-duo/

Data Cult Audio 0131 - Todd Barton by DC Audio

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 Transmissions'. 

LINKS:

pkwst.bandcamp.com

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/