Data Cult Audio

Mark Crowley is a musician, artist, and circuit designer living in Asheville, NC. He works as a hardware engineer for Moog Music. 

Links: 

http://www.mark-crowley.com/ 

https://markcrowley.bandcamp.com/music

Hektor Kafka aka Human Koala
Organic+Electronic+Mechanic Music
Noise Designer, Computer Trasher, Electronic Performer & Producer.
from Techno to Ambient, from Electronica to Smoky Down Tempo, from Mainstream to Experimental, From Computer to Modular Synth, from Noise to Tone, from the Ground to the Sky.
Hector has played live in Paris @ Palais de Tokyo, 104, Point Ephémère, Divan du Monde, Petit Bain, Batofar, Villette Enchantée, Wanderlust.
He has been keeping the live and experimental touch alive since 1994.

https://soundcloud.com/hektor-kafka

https://soundcloud.com/human-koala

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

Raül Peix lives in Barcelona and and performs under the moniker Ralp. He is a technology enthusiast, from retro to modern. He loves synthesizers, analog and digital, electronics, glitch, sci-fi, programming, and DIY culture.

In his spare time Raül makes experimental electronic music, produced with hardware and software. He uses 8 Bit systems such as the Game Boy, and likes to build and modify his own machines. He collect Game Boys, various machines and actually pretty much any device that crosses his path.

Raül is currently working as part of a design, motion graphics and sound design studio called Device. He is also co-directing an 8 Bit and Circuit Bending Net Label called Lowtoy, and an 8 Bit audiovisual collective called Distortled Box.

Links:

http://ralp.org/info/

https://www.facebook.com/ralpeix

http://www.devicers.com

http://www.lowtoy.com

http://www.distortledbox.com

http://ralp.bandcamp.com

https://soundcloud.com/ralp

Over the past few years the Synth Witch (Julia More) has been a constant top act in the Pacific Northwest. Primarily focused on synthesis at an epic scale she enjoys performing with a combination of modular and keyboards all completely live. Most known for her use of Moog Sub37 and Mother 32s, she branches into modular with sound sources from Noise Engineering and lot of sequencing from Malekko Heavy Industry.

As a trans woman she is focused on centering female and non binary voices in synthesis, the Synth Witch coordinated the Modular on the Spot PDX: Women's Takeover in Portland, OR. She also facilitates at the S1 Synth Library teaching synthesis on a regular basis.

Links:

http://thesynthwitch.com

https://www.instagram.com/thesynthwitch/

Yoel Ben Yehuda is a multi-faceted artist/lecturer living in Atlanta, Georgia, where he teaches classes in music theory, intro to recording and production, music management, voice, choir, and piano.

He has worked as a musician/producer with many artists both locally in Atlanta and internationally. Some of his projects include working as keyboardist and co-producer with Diane Durrett and Soul Suga, and as producer/musician with Tribe Records UK and Kazakauta Records Angola, Africa.

Amongst his credits, Yoel has written for television and film, performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and has written several arrangements for the the Naples Philharmonic.

Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Tufoe-Bhairavi-Yoel-ben-Yehuda/dp/B07BNC4ZZS

https://soundcloud.com/yoelbenyehuda

https://www.mixcloud.com/yoel-ben-yehuda/

Joe Miller is a music composer, sound designer, and audio engineer. Since 2008, he has crafted original music and sound for more than 20 films, national TV series, marketing campaigns, games, theater, etc. A decade of writing on commission, in popular genres and with standard tools, created a need for new forms of personal artistic expression. In reaction to this, making music in the "modular method" has become a primary form of self-expression and music experimentation in Joe's life. These improvised experiments are released under the name Xin.

In Chinese philosophy, xin can refer to one's disposition or feelings or to one's confidence or trust in something or someone. Xin has a connotation of intention yet can be used to refer to long-term goals. Xin (心) itself is a concept that is as much cognitive as emotional. This blend of cognitive intention and emotional reaction is the essence of this approach to modular music making.

Links:

https://soundslikejoe.com/

https://soundcloud.com/soundslikejoe

Noah Kalos, AKA Illumination Station, has been playing musical instruments for as long as he can remember. The appearance and construction of these instruments has shifted over the years but his passion for creating noises has never waned. Starting on instruments made of wood, metal strings and horsehair to ones of brass with valves, an ever lasting love for large ones with black and white keys and now instruments made mostly of copper, aluminum and played with knobs and cables. 

Noah's passion for electronic music started while doing a summer program at Berklee for upright jazz bass and he started learning reason and cubase as an elective. Noah was in the box for many years with his electronic music production but in the last few years he has emerge into the world of modular synthesizers do to the unique composition styles and creativity available in this medium. 

Currently working as a synthesizer technician for his day job, Noah has entered fully into the world of modular and couldn't be happier. Noah has been working in the genre of "Modular Dance Music," which is fairly undefined and vague. It is not exclusive to hardware modular but rather a modular thinking and modular approach that can be found within programs such as Pure Data and Reaktor. While Noah tends to exclusively use eurorack, he is excited to see this genre grow and for the creative possibilities inherent in modular composition and performance. Tune in and chillout to some modular dance music provided by Illumination Station.

Links:

https://dsound.audio/#!/@illuminationst8

https://illuminationstation.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/c/IlluminationStation

https://www.facebook.com/Illuminationst8ion

https://steemit.com/@illuminationst8

Under the pseudonym U-Bits , lies Sergio Rodriguez, self-taught musician, sound designer and field recording enthusiast.

U-Bits represents the current projection of the work of an artist who is constantly in search of structures and textures far from standard. A compendium of sound design, field recordings, noise and soundscapes. 

Links:

https://soundcloud.com/ubits

Oliver Dodd is a producer and performer originally from Atlanta but now resides in Nashville. For Data Cult Audio 0050, he brings us an introspective and deep set with the focus and feeling of spring.  The set was composed and recorded using a Eurorack Modular Synth.  

 Patch Notes:

The pitch sequencer is comprised of a random source from the SSF Ultra Random which is fed into the Ornament & Crime Quantermain mode.  Sound sources used are: Rings, Elements, Braids, and Plonk. Further audio processing is from Clouds, Erbe-Verb and Phonogene.  Modulation sources include Function, Voltage Block, SSF Ultra Random, and Quad Clock Divider.  All audio sources are mixed using the WMD Performance mixer and WMD MSCL Stereo Compressor which are sent to a two-channel audio interface. 

Links:

http://www.oliverdodd.com/

https://www.youtube.com/oliverdodd

https://www.instagram.com/_oliverdodd/

https://www.discogs.com/artist/1456-Oliver-Dodd

Fresh from the land of the rising sun and emerging from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo comes Sunshine Lover.

Just over two years ago he started his journey experimenting with Modular Synthesizers, and for his Data Cult debut he has compiled some of his favorite aural experiments for your listening pleasure.

Raw, rough and nasty in places but contrasting with glimpses of light shining through the mirk, sit back, relax and enjoy the ride, and just like Roy Ayers famously sung ‘Everybody loves the.......

Link:

Instagram: sun_shine_lover