focus: default #6 – 21.06.2023 with Loto Retina, Atte Elias Kantonen, Diego Behncke & ⊥
Our next event is happening on Wednesday the 21th of June with performances by Loto Retina, Atte Elias Kantonen, Diego Behncke & ⊥.
Our upcoming event is happening this Wednesday and therefore we would like to share with you a selection of works made by the artists set to perform. This focus newsletter highlights works by Loto Retina, Atte Elias Kantonen, Diego Behncke & ⊥.
Loto Retina
In recent years, Loto Retina have become known for their remarkable live performances in which a semi-dancing chaos is composed with velocity and fantasy, inhabited by struck, scraped, caressed percussion and semi-humanoid onomatopoeia.
The samples are jostling and jumping around like in a cartoon. Loto released among others via the Paris-based label Promesses and the playful American Orange Milk Records. Since releasing their latest full-length 2022 in 2020, they’ve uploaded a stream of engaging, mind boggling unique live-excerpts on their Soundcloud and formed the duo Alto Fuero together with Victoria Palacios.
a selection of highlighted releases and uploads include:
a selection of live excerpts
(Soundcloud, 2019-2023)
2022
(Promesses & Orange Milk Records, 2020)
Fiction
(Orange Milk Records, 2017)
Other works include sens (self-released, 2016), split (2015) and guitares confinement 2020 (self-released, 2023). You can find a collection of their mixes here.
Atte Elias Kantonen
Atte Elias Kantonen is a Helsinki, Finland -based sound designer, sonic artist and composer working mostly in the fields of experimental music and contemporary performing arts. The aim of his sounding practice is to sculpt sound into bright and delicate forms encompassing a variety of tones – ranging from glassy to organismic, earthly to ethereal.
For his recent work, Kantonen has been interested in the potential of elastic synthesis and extremely processed sound in abstract storytelling – attempting to build auditive dioramas of naivistic yet ephemeral scenarios and sceneries through assortments of synthetic glugs, tings, whirls, plunks, squeaks & croaks.
His album POP 6 SUSURRUS (2022, mappa), will be followed by an LP to be released by the US-based SODA GONG in 2023.
a selection of highlighted works include:
POP 6 SUSURRUS (mappa, 2022)
ioi / Weeping (Superpang, 2021)
Nom Occasions (Superpang, 2020)
Other releases include Frankille (Active Listeners Club, 2020), Studies in audio fabrics (Granny Records, 2020) and noodles (2021)
Atte also has a side project titled “ant spa ·)((“, which currently consists of a monthly experimental music radio show on IDA radio and a sound performance project that plays with naivistic yet intricate hörspiel-like auditive fantasies of micro-landscapes and insect life.
Diego Behncke
Diego Behncke is an artist and composer currently living in Berlin. His work builds upon the concept of an uncanny listening, derived from the frameworks of noise, transduction and synthesis as relational structures. Taking form through obfuscation operations, his works appear as an abuse of residual conceptual and technical byproducts, a foregrounding of epistemic faults, and a strategic misdirection of ambiguity.
For several years he's been releasing sound works, running the label Prensa Manual, engaging on collective exhibitions, and collaborating with other artists, researchers, and musicians in various practices.
His latest release, Machine Anamnesis (Prensa Manual, 2022) is built upon de- and re-compositions of materials through recursive methodologies. Devising synthetic voices as recalling mechanisms, false patterns are identified and dumb-forms emerge.
At default#6, Diego is presenting a quadraphonic residual dynamic spatialization based on live combinatorial spectrum interpolations of synthetic sound material.
a selection of works include:
Machine Anamnesis
(Prensa Manual, 2022)
less second updates
(Prensa Manual, 2017)
Ensemble Appareil Plays The World of Early Music: From the Middle Ages to the Dawn of the Enlightenment [Naxos - 8.554770-71] (CD, 1999)
(Prensa Manual, 2020)
Paralalia (Monophonic Stereo Synthetic Cutoff, 'freely' Iterated, Pt. 1)
(Soundcloud, 2021)
Other works can be found on Diego’s Soundcloud and Website.
⊥
⊥ is an uptack is an eet is a creator of sounds.
key concepts:
digital noise, absurdity, warped voices, cannibalized public consciousness, tiktok spell casting, computer demon worship, informational overload, invocations of nothing, destruction of the familiar, anti-music disinformation campaign, white noise homogeneity propagation.
⊥ is a big thumbs up to the music industry and sound culture.
After forging together a staple of remarkable Soundcloud uploads, ⊥ is presenting the premiere of his live performance at default#6.
a selection of works include:
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