Akkamiau - Ediacaran EP
cat# Detund LTD 76

https://detund.bandcamp.com/album/ediacaran-ep


"The Ediacaran biota has particular significance for the history of life as it represents the earliest known assemblage of complex multicellular organisms, with “complex” here referring to organisms that host more than just a few different cell types. The Ediacaran world was a rather peaceful one, largely without conflict and predation. The soft-bodied organisms were a largely immobile form of marine life shaped like discs and tubes, fronds and quilted mattresses. The majority were extremely passive, remaining attached in one spot for their entire lives. Many fed by absorbing chemicals from the water through their outer membranes, rather than actively gathering nutrients. Paleontologists have coined the term "Garden of Ediacara" to convey the peace and tranquility that must have prevailed during this period. But there was a lot of churning going on beneath that apparently serene surface."

My previous compositions Interjections and Kummerang dived into the psychology of trauma and worked within the frame of Buddhist ethics and practice of inner ecology. Ediacaran EP continues this exploratory nurturing of one’s inner landscape, reaching for the holistic and sustainable philosophy of life. In the spring of 2020 covid quarantine ‘allowed’ me to spend all the days in the garden behind our house, where I could pay close attention to the awaking plants, bushes and trees, observe insects, many kinds of birds, mice, squirrels and other furry visitors of our garden and learn their times and habits.

Understanding their behavioral patterns made me adjust my own presence accordingly, in the least possible intervention with their way of existence. My goal was to reestablish a sustainable environment for them, in this small space in between the block of flats in the middle of Berlin. Inspiration for this EP
came from reading wonderful book Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness while sitting in the garden and listening to the improvisations I recorded with semi modular synthesizer Grandmother Moog, analog drum synthesizer Vermona DRM1 MkIII, workstation Korg Kronos and Korg Electribe S1. The peaceful time focused on happenings in this microcosmos in our backyard turned into a wish to revisit the seemingly peaceful world before the Cambrian explosion. 

released March 30, 2021

Cover art Fruiting bodies (detail) by Umico Niwa umiconiwa.com

Video credits:
dance impro by Marlene Kahl collapsetofraction.com
video FX by Kero k3ro.net
camera, edit, sound by Akkamiau

Biography:
Audiovisual artist, experimental musician, performer, concept writer, event manager and coordinator, resident in Berlin. As Akkamiau she has performed audiovisual shows since 2006. She has been coordinator of female:pressure network and festival Perspectives Berlin, multimedia festival Multiplace. produced and art directed projects L to the B and Zbrojovka site-specific. In 2012 she co-founded multimedia collective StratoFyzika, for which she created sound compositions inspired by metaphysics. Currently performs as hiT͟Hərˈto͞o live experimental techno, with releases on female:pressure, Decadence recordings, SPRINGSTOFF and Establishment records. As Akkamiau she released EPInterjections [DETUND, 2019] and produced a/v performance Interjections (Liminal Act) in collaboration with collapsetofraction collective. Akkamiau hosted radio shows at Colaboradio (Frei Radio Berlin) and Cashmere radio;
she is a booker for female:pressure Circle and regularly DJs with focus on the emotional power of sound frequencies, presenting a delicate mixture of experimental and dance music.


Links:
akkamiau.weebly.com
www.facebook.com/akkamiau
soundcloud.com/akkamiau
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/akkamiau


Affiliations:
female:pressure, collapsetofraction, Trash Era, Detroit Underground

Gigs:
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/akkamiau/dates

Ediacaran @ bandcamp

Ediacaran EP

Ediacaran

Akkamiau - 04 Dickinsonia Costata

Akkamiau - 01 Kimberella Quadrata

Akkamiau - 02 Annulatubus Flexuosus

Akkamiau - 03 Bradgatia Linfordensis

akkamiau [Detroit Underground] 
Lena Kocisova  / Sound Artist and Composer 
@akkamiau @hithertoo
upcoming gigs:
31/08/24  ∈  DJ set @ EAC sound system@ Yacht Brno
28/09/24  ∈  DJ set @ SILO @ Pulpit Brno
25/10/24  ∈  DJ set @ URNA Fraktal Brno

29/08/24  ∈  DJ set @ LFS UH
22/06/24  ∈  DJ set @ Rochus UH
03/05/24  ∈  DJ set @ Nur Altenburg 1964 Praha
19/04/24  ∈  DJ set @ URNA Fraktal Brno
14/04/24  ∈  DJ set @ Technicolor Chapoux Rouge Praha
30/3/24  ∈  DJ set @ Berlin Syndrome Perpetuum Brno 
26/01/24  ∈  DJ set @ Space Adventure Mir UH 
10/12/23 ∈  DJ set @ RE Union FAVU  @ Kabinet Muz Brno
02/06/23 ∈  live @ Interzone + DURCH/ MenschMeier Berlin
19/05/23 ∈  DJ set @  Roderich Berlin
11/05/23 ∈  DJ set @ FLINTA FATALA / Renate Berlin
17/03/23 ∈  DJ set @ female:pressure x Borderless Berlin AVA Berlin
07/03/23 ∈  DJ set @ female:pressure International WOMENS / FLINTA Day @ Club OST
17/02/23 ∈  DJ set @ female:pressure x Borderless AVA Berlin
26/01/23 ∈ DJ set @ DETUND - BRLN showcase Urban Spree
20/01/23 ∈ DJ set @ Vorspiel/Transmediale/CTM opening Panke
19/12/22 ∈  Voltage 4.0 @ Refuge worldwide Berlin
16/12/22 ∈  DJ set @ female:pressure x Borderless AVA Berlin
25/11/22 ∈  DJ set @ Borderless Global Underground AVA Berlin
09/11/22 ∈  panel talk Raw Chicks @ Most Wanted: Music 2022 Berlin
30/10/22 ∈ live @ acoustic neuroma / Berlin
28/10/22 ∈ jam with Lady Starlight @ Signals festival / Funkhaus_berlin
04/10/22 ∈ DJ set @ Maushaus Fleda Brno
10/09/22 ∈ live @ zusaMMen:female:pressure / MenschMeier Berlin
29/08/22 ∈ VOLTAGE 2.0 @ Dublab radio 
​07/07/22 ∈ DJ set @ Diffuse Reality / About Blank Berlin
​02/07/22 ∈ DJ set @ Pattern.Berlin online stream
​24/06/22 ∈ DJ set @ Diffuse Reality / About Blank Berlin
​08/05/22 ∈  DJ set @ Renate Garten Berlin

.....all started in 1990s ∈  orga + DJ set @ Party Zone, Voice if Future & Space Energy @ Veseli n/Mor

Audiovisual artist, experimental musician, performer, concept writer and art event manager and coordinator, resident in Berlin. In 2014, she received her PhD in Audiovisual Performance from FaVU Brno University of Technology (CZ), where she studied Performance Art, under Professor Tomas Ruller, pedagogy, multimedia and arts management. Living and traveling throughout Europe and United States collecting experiences in art and music club subculture, she has been a member and coordinator of international network female:pressure (festival Perspectives, Rituals x f:p, Circle), new media festival Multiplace, Czech it!, Anymade Studio, and Fauchmiau. She was also Art Director of projects L to the B and Zbrojovka site-specific. She has performed experimental audiovisual shows since 2006 as Akkamiau, from 2012 -2019 she created sound compositions inspired by metaphysics for audiovisual collective StratoFyzika. In 2016 launched an experimental techno project hiT͟Hərˈto͞o, with releases on female:pressure, Decadence recordings, SPRINGSTOFF, Establishment records and kashev tapes. Latest art direction production was audiovisual performance Interjections (Liminal Act) in 2019  and Voltage 2.0 in international collaboration.
http://akkamiau.weebly.com/
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/akkamiau
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/hitherto

Experiments on the field of visual and audio art tweak around the equations, weird matters, spiritual energy, fictional time and space. Freezing her past in obsessive loops of moving pictures, illusive disappearing installations, sound labyrinths of hermetic knowledge. Akkamiau is the soundtrack for the life with cold echoes and disrupted harmonies, destructive laments of suffering nonhuman beings - lo-fi chilly lolly pop.

Born in middle earth Europe, found at the coast of Pacific Ocean, leaped through the time and space into a black hole Berlin to finalise her transformation from an evil human monster into the beloved cat emperor.