13. "In Praise of Absurdity" by Paula Daunt (aka Agnosie)

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Black Magic Cyborg was created and is based In Austin Texas by Brandon Lynch in 2016. The music sounds resembles old Skinny puppy and Doubting Thomas brap sessions. With horror and Sci-Fi movie sound tracks influences like Begotten and The Texas Chainsaw massacre.  Major influences are the video work of Fever Ray musical influences of Coil, Skinny puppy, Diamanda Gala’s, Nurse with wound and influenced by the writings of William S. Burroughs, Philp K. Dick. Every song is based on a spell with instruments incased in bones and electronics. The look is a combination of cyber punk and witch craft. This is the chronicles of William Philp and his experiences with what would magic sound like.

Head of the queer identifying VRAAA label and a celebrated protagonist in Berlin’s nightlife, both Projekt Gestalten is the identity of Brazilian producer and DJ, Diego Garcia. Adorning their DJ sets in various forms of white wedding dresses and baroque embroidery, Projekt Gestalten’s queer desire and bold feminine spirit flaunts a unrivaled promiscuity of tongue-in-cheek tawdry that’s pushing techno music and its artistic, sexual appetites that much further.  Having found pride of place as an established entity controlling soundtracks at risque nightspots and parties the world over - namely making their way through London, St. Petersburg and New York to São Paulo and Paris - Diego Garcia’s emergence from the obscure raves of Berlin and its presiding internet culture now sees the artist, with a burgeoning discography and remix catalogue for the reckoning, as an out and loud center stage presence and trailblazing queer, music identity.

Bookings: wittes@questagency.net

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Quando eu morrer batam em latas,
Rompam aos saltos e aos pinotes,
Façam estalar no ar chicotes,
Chamem palhaços e acrobatas!

Que o meu caixão vá sobre um burro
Ajaezado à andaluza...
A um morto nada se recusa,
Eu quero por força ir de burro.

Mário de Sá-Carneiro

Artist: Hyllis Hyman
Production: Hyllis Hyman

