Next to contribute to the Virtual Utopia series is Melbourne-based Sommi (@sommmi) who’s airborne, breaks-infused sound has really resonated with us in the Corporation since we heard his mix at the dawn of the 13th Chime series. 

This 60-minute program guides us through various landscapes, soundscapes and dreamscapes- beginning with a deep meditative introduction that feels like staring endlessly into a misty valley of crystalline refraction. Moving forward, we hover through views of lush surroundings and trickling waters, where Sommi really compliments the sounds of spring.

Gliding past smooth unknown structures of brushed aluminium, the metallic shades reflect the spectrum of existence back at you. A true ascension into a virtual universe. A pneumatic dream-world of mechanical efficiency. What a utopia earth could be.

During the program we will delve deep into a 3D simulated forest, an endless array of fractal trees and vegetation, rendered real-time. It all seems so realistic, until you look closely and see the edges of everything is pixelated.

Looking up at looping digital skies on seamlessly installed LCD screens. You open your eyes.

Many thanks to Sommi for this stellar contribution and we hope you enjoy!

Virtual Utopia 05: Sommi

Run of AreaAudio for ISF
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Resident Of Fade Radio 
https://www.fade.radio/residents/r-a-s-h

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Resident  of 
https://www.fangoradio.com/shows/350
 
Biography
Empirical as a hard sip spilling from a discharged battery. There is always a nihilistic fetish in these youngsters dealing with technology. Stefano Martino, aka R A S H, is never hiding this darkest side in his composition. His machinery becomes a ritual object within which his human state becomes an algorithmic begging of change making its appearance at warm 50 hertz complacency.

His sound exploration is elaborated through decadent, post-industrial soundscapes inscribing the full failure of a consumer society which noise becomes an evidence whilst its awareness is modelled, reworked within a dystopian hexavalent chromium taste, blended into the future. Uncannily grainy, definitely remote. Until he stumbles upon a retrofuture device. Namely, a mono synth.Owner of  AreaAudio for Infestazioni Soniche Festival / R A S H lab

https://www.fade.radio/residents/r-a-s-h

@sugargliderradio
limbs akimbo on @fbiradiosydney
also 1/2 of a&a

bookings ~ anusha.rana99@gmail.com

Platyrrachos Nikos also known as “Platy:n” comes from Heraklion, Crete and studied at the University of Music Technology and Acoustics in Rethymno.
In 2022 he created the music group “common:sense” together with 2 of his friends, Yiannis Papadogiannakis aka “S.O.N” and Farsaris Giorgos aka “Prince.of.lillies”.
The events they organize are outdoors in natural landscapes where Crete has a lot to offer. Some of the events that have taken place are in the Fourni forest, in the forest of Agia Irini in Spilia, in the chalet of Psiloritis and in the shooting club of Krousonas.

drendiela is the name and concept that DJ, visual artist, and anthropologist Julia Mota adopted in 2016, after crossing paths with a magical Colombian traveler and illusionist. When the magician asked her name, she responded with another question: "What name do you think I have?" The answer was "drendiela," followed by a story about its meaning.

In essence, drendiela represents an imagistic person who transits between worlds, a time traveler who crosses binary divisions, moving through the past, present, and future. Since that singular encounter, Julia has been bringing this character to life, adding new layers of meaning. Julia merges with drendiela when she signs her artistic creations with this name.

For Julia, a native of Paracatu (tupi-guarani name that means ‘good river’), a city in Minas Gerais that hosts one of the largest open-pit gold mines in the world, and living in Brasília, the capital of Brasil, an "idealized city”, since the age of seven, drendiela symbolizes a dream, a utopia, an unfinished code, a disruption, and decentralization. It is a continuous experiment whose purpose is to expand our capacities to imagine other possible worlds, other lines and curves, narratives, textures, sensations and techniques; – to unite the improbable, dig into the concrete to reach the subjective.

drendiela@gmail.com

Tranquilamente Radio
3rd Saturday of every month
@thelotradio

yibing.guo@gmail.com

Record label, mix series & DJ alias

Inner-Mind Technology™

Radio Programmer at @radio-sofa
Resident at @thfradio

Virtual Utopia 05: Sommi

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