TRIANGULATION
Piano Duo, Electronic + Visuals. Virtual soundscapes made of carefully structured noise and distorted silence
Triangulation
Piano Duo, Live-Electronic & Visuals
Triangulation is a process of determining the location of a point by measuring angles to it from known points at either end of a fixed baseline. The performance title refers to a historical method of cartography and describes artistic strategy of the trio. Pulsation, audible landscapes and static sound waves mixed with plastic deformation of the video images reference an endless space made of sound and light which is being mapped during the performance from a „bird’s-eye view“.
Triangulation #4 - Radial
The fundamental openness of the music along with their abstract emotional sensitivity are the starting points for a new aesthetic of the (piano-) sound that unfolds in the ears of the listeners. The interplay between two pianists is structured by strictly ordered blocks of generative music followed by improvised parts. Piano cadences encounter prickly and cold computer generated sounds.
Wide-spanning chords, melodic sequences and cluster drones are transformed in realtime by electronic manipulation into floating rhythms and microscopic loops. The result is a synergistic blend of synthetic sounddesign and acoustic passages that emerges in form of a virtual soundscape made of carefully structured noise and distorted silence – a boundless form of „high-tech meditation“.
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Displaced Meanings
Experimental Turntablism, Solo-Project. Cyber-shamanistic catabasis between data necrology and dazzling geometries of post-narrative structures.
Displaced Meanings
Experimental Turntablism, Solo Project
In 2009 Damian Marhulets wrote his graduation thesis titled „From play back machine to music instrument: Studies on the history of composing with the turntable“. Shortly afterwards he began his solo project Displaced Meanings, in which he occupied himself with the possibilities of the turntable at various levels.
Live @Berghain, with DJ Olive
Displaced Meanings dwells on shining putrefaction of frozen data and skin traumas of the medium. It can be understood as a cyber-shamanistic catabasis between data necrology and dazzling geometries of post-narrative structures. The turntable is considered here an undead machine imbued with necrophilic intimacy of anonymous dreams and meanings; a musical instrument, with which one can investigate hidden details and forgotten traces in trusted musical objects.
In place of a typical DJ setup with two turntables Damian works only with one turntable extended, however, through different noisemakers, effect machines, prepared guitar and self programmed instruments. Some of theDisplaced Meanings performances incorporate visual parts, such as 8bit games worm-eaten with terminal glitches or vintage adult game animations drowned in pixel error slime.