http://soundcloud.com/joncates + http://soundcloud.com/jeffkolar

Performed & Recorded LIVE on August 12, 2015 at Defibrillator Gallery in Chicago, USA.
http://dfbrl8r.org/event/ariadne

"0812215" by Jeff Kolar + jonCates [2015]

Jeff Kolar is a composer, sound artist, and founder of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform established in 2010. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Smithsonian Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, CTM Festival for Adventurous Music, Radio Revolten Radio Art Festival, and reviewed in The New York Times, The Wire Magazine, Red Bull Music Academy, and more.

Overcast Electronics. Damaged Eros, est. 1986
PURGIST is an outlet for focused exploration of urban field recordings, digital artifacts, aural atmospherics, and disjointed noise dynamics. His vivid, cinematic, post-industrial electronic music has a prominent conceptual background based on a deep reflection upon personal vices and self-abusive obsessions.
Hopefully, it inspires you to have a long, deep look in the mirror.

Weird tones on the way to their mission

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02.05.2025
HB55 (Sellerie Weekend)

08.03.2025
BMS48 Neulant

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Crack Belmer

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04.06.2023 21:10
Funkwerke Vol.3

10.09.2022
Neukölln

14.08.2022 00:00
Neulewin

21.06.2022
Schlesisches Tor

My musical journey began in a castle, somewhere between bohemian dreams and raw concrete.
As an unnamed duo of art students, we spent our nights in the adjoining 40-square-meter bunker from World War II - no mobile phones, no internet, just cold stone, tangled power cables, and torn-up grunge riffs.
After that band ended in 1995, a whole new world of electronic sounds opened up for me:
The DrumTraks by Sequential Circuits was my gateway; soon came a DX-7, an Atari ST, and endless loops spun through sleepless nights.

I was completely cut off from the outside world of the pre-internet era - lost in my own cosmos. 
Then came Berlin, and with it, new possibilities.
There’s this saying: "If you remember the ’90s, you weren’t really there."

At some point, I drifted into other things and put music aside for a while.
Until that memorable week in the park, just before COVID: I met a philosophy professor from New York, touring Europe, who tried to numb his post-op pain with red wine and oxycodone. He kept talking about his dream of recording a song. So I took him in, got some microphones and an interface, and after a week, we had produced his love song—radio-ready and brimming with magic.

That spark led me back to my own path: In search of new and inspiring sounds, I discovered the Elements by Mutable Instruments and dove headfirst into the world of modular synthesis. Ever since, I’ve been stuck deep in the rabbit hole - when it comes to choosing between new shoes and a new VCA, music usually wins.

Then, in 2022: a roadside, a spontaneous party, everything I owned that could run on 9 volts in my bag. 
My first live performance - improvised, raw, honest.
What’s grown and evolved from there, I call:

"Weird tones on the way to their mission."