Enter the Breaks

Profile: Herman Giebartowski (a.k.a. Primitive Alchemy)

Based in: Melbourne, Australia

Disciplines: Electronic music production · Experimental sound design · Spoken word · Multimedia installation

Genres: Ambient · Post-Industrial · Leftfield electronica · Electroacoustic · Experimental techno · Liquid D&B

Active since: 1995
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📄 Artist Bio

Herman Giebartowski is a Melbourne-based electronic music producer and multimedia artist whose work blends ambient textures, modular\beat synthesis and the spoken word. With a background in audio engineering and live performance, Giebartowski creates immersive soundscapes that often explore urban decay, mythos, memory, and technology. His releases span both digital and cassette formats and have been featured in underground electronic circles across Australia and Europe.
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📄 Artist Bio (Extended)

Herman Giebartowski is a multidisciplinary artist and producer working at the intersection of electronic sound design, experimental music, and conceptual performance.

With a formal background in audio production and sound theory from secondary school onwards, Herman began performing under the tag Pyrotechnica in 1995. His live sets are known for blending slow-evolving ambient landscapes with fragmented post-industrial rhythms and spoken word overlays. His work has appeared at independent electronic events, clubs, warehouse shows, and gallery-based listening rooms throughout Melbourne, with international interest via curated playlists.

Giebartowski is a boundary-dissolving artist navigating the liminal spaces between sound, text, and memory. Drawing on a hybrid lineage of Eastern European folklore, post-communist architecture, and algorithmic decay, his work evokes the static hum of lost transmissions and the poetic distortion of time.

His signature “glitch chants” and ambient-noir soundscapes have earned underground acclaim in Melbourne’s electronic scene and Europe’s cassette-based art communities.

Whether composing for avant-garde theatre, broadcasting cryptic radio rituals, or exhibiting obsolete data as sculpture, Giebartowski’s aesthetic is a constant archaeology of the near-now.

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🔍 Education & Background
•	Bachelor of Arts: The University of Melbourne
•	Bachelor of Creative Arts: La Trobe University

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🛠️ Tools & Gear
•	Impulse Tracker 2.14 - patch #5
•	Ableton Live + Max for Live
•	Virtual DJ
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🔁 Themes in Practice

•	Environmental memory and field resonance
•	Post-industrial spaces and sonic textures
•	Voice and machine interplay
•	Loops and archival processes in sound

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📣 Public Presence
•	Instagram: @primitive.alchemist
•	Affiliated collectives: Pyrotechnica, Mindmonkey: the Monkeymind, Alienation Theory, Primitive Alchemy