Introducing Ultra Instinct with their cover of Marcy Playground's "Opium." A collaboration between Steph Kretowicz and Ben Babbitt, the Los Angeles-based duo’s busted tragic loser pop draws on spoken word text, collaged field recordings, and live-mangled CDJ edits of original tracks to explore the time-tested ritual of combining words and song. 

https://ultrainstinct.bandcamp.com/album/opium

After publishing a number of recordings since 2020 including "BSAD (buy shit and die)” via CURL, “Brutal” for Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, and the autofictional radio play, “I hate here ft. felicita” (YLE Radio, Finland). Ultra Instinct is a new live iteration of that collaboration.

Upcoming European dates include:

Aug 29- Ultra Instinct at @Meakusma Festival, Eupen https://www.studioneau.be/emissions/meakusma-festival-2024/steph-kretowicz-ben-babbitt/
Sept 5- Ultra Instinct w/ @enhancementtt + @cccconrad at Forma HQ, London
https://forma.org.uk/projects/ultra-instinct/

Ultra Instinct, "Opium" (2024). Courtesy AQNB, Los Angeles.

—Published across visual art, music & critical thought from 2012-2022
—Other discrete projects, as and when

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I am the universe dissociating~an eddy in the river of being

Make sure you play some vidya. "He who knows both vidya and avidya together, transcends mortality through avidya and reaches immortality through vidya" (see Isha Upanishad, Verse 11).