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 Steve Roach and Thighpaulsandra.


Released recordings include Secret Life (2013) on Coda Recordings, zZyzx Society (2018) on ZSR Records, Patch.cv TWO (2019) on Organic Artists Records and POV (2019) on Blue Trousers Records - commissioned by and sold exclusively on Steveroach.com

Most recently, he was featured in the Patch.cv modular documentary series produced by David Elliot Johnson and Organic Artists LLC.

Links:

https://www.zzyzxsociety.com/

http://www.ear-synth.com/

https://soundcloud.com/petergrenader

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://blackboxtheory.bandcamp.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/blkbxthry/

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 performance artist Ivan E Roth. Her performances with Ivan were part of the vibrant Los Angeles punk and spoken word scene and she played live modular synthesizer, opening for acts including the Minutemen and Henry Rollins. Ivan and Jill released the CD Alphabetical Disorders on Periodic Music featuring “Life is a Noun”.

Links:

http://www.jillfrasermusic.com/

https://thezzyzxsociety.bandcamp.com/releases

https://www.facebook.com/jillfrasermusic

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 and the Flussi media arts festival in Avellino, Italy.

Links:

https://www.mixcloud.com/precociousmouse/

https://threadneedle-community.bandcamp.com/

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