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#FLUID (born 2016) - a queer act based in Bucharest - is the collaboration between Paul Dunca/Paula Dunker (performer, choreographer, actress, writer), Alex Bălă (musician) and other warped creatures. Using sound, music and a microphone as tender tools, FLUID fits into the techno-faggothique neo-genre. The duo's live appearances include very diverse  scenes and events as : MACAZ -  Bar Teatru Coop., POINT - Theatre, Sala Dalles for Eco Delta Dunării Project, Replika - Center for Educational Theatre, Street Delivery 2016, Bucharest Pride 2016, Queer Night, Voila Psychiatric Hospital (for the project ”Normality, Such a Brutal Word !” - MNAC), CAPITOL Summer Theatre, Amural Festival 3 &4/ 2017 + 2018 (Brașov), the exhibition WE WILL NOT CHANGE OUR SHOW, Brno, Czech Republic, One Gallery, Sofia, OWR 2019  & 2020 Film Festival and two weddings.

COUGHY as a project has it’s beginning at the end of 2009 following a spontaneous performance at an underground location in Bucharest, between Vlad (laptop + samplers) & Ovidiu (guitar + vox), Augustin Nicolae (bass) and Color Nurse (visuals).

The concept of COUGHY was to be an exact opposite of clinging to one particular sound or a tedious rehearsal of prior established songs. Improvisation, spontaneity, obscure cultural influences and a complete and reciprocal trust were to be the principles of this project, and a strong live visual input provided by the visual artist Color Nurse. The result, often unpredictable even to the protagonists, associates freely drones and rhythms, noise and harmony, digital and analog, atmospheric and psychedelic, pop and experiment.

In the summer of 2012, the duo enters the studio to record a 6 hour non-stop session of improv with themes collected from their prior performances. The meticulously edited result represents the eponymous debut material.

Coughy was signed to R&S/Apollo Records(UK) after releasing the material. No other contact was made after this. Afterwards, the band signed with Bucharest based Local Records.

Coughy has opened for acts like Jamie Woon, Factory Floor or No Age, The Raveonettes, Space Dimension Controller and others. Coughy also performed at Rokolectiv Festival 2013 edition alongside artists like Burnt Friedman&Jaki Liebezeit, CUCA Festival in 2014 and in Bern (Switzerland) during Romanian Culture Week 2014.

The video for Fruit: http://vimeo.com/47621647
The video for This Mass Extinction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuKzbhEXxyA

In april 2016 the project was put to a halt by the members.

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