Cologne-based multimedia-artist and musician @bidisha-das-2 works largely with improvised electronic music, using digital, analogue, and self-made instruments. Bidisha’s enigmatic soundscapes that are characterised by a consistent DIY-approach reflect her profound interest in the intersection between art, technology, and science. Recurring themes of the artist’s diverse range of work include planetary coexistence, transformation processes, alternative concepts of communication, and rhizomatic thinking. Bidisha is a graduate of Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore and currently studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

Recorded at SCHALLFRONT [Reverie(s)] on 18.09.21

Bidisha Das - live at SCHALLFRONT

In May, 2022, at least for a moment, we were absolved of our sins as the outline of the amoral face of pure consumption at the center of our galaxy was revealed to us.  Reflecting back to us the macro and the micro forms of our existence, its gravitational forces consume, distort, and deform all known structures, sounds, and rhythms.  As a result of this warping, familiar musical elements are deterritorialized to create new forms, but they simultaneously run the risk of collapsing into their own black holes of signification.  

As black holes are both galactic destroyers and creators, this is a space of creation/desire and death/destruction.  Ultimately, the outside observer can not see when one falls into a black hole.  For the outside observer, the person falling appears to slow down and eventually stand still. From the perspective of the falling person though, their experience of time is unchanged.  Their descent is rapid and violent.  In the end, time is fractured in the distance between the observer and the participant, simultaneously being crushed in the infinite density of the blackhole and also perpetually existing, frozen at the edge of the event horizon.
Written by Andy Cowling, July 2022

sgr_a* reflex (excerpt from "we were lost, forever")

"In May, 2022, at least for a moment, we were absolved of our sins as the outline of the amoral face of pure consumption at the center of our galaxy was revealed to us.  Reflecting back to us the macro and the micro forms of our existence, its gravitational forces consume, distort, and deform all known structures, sounds, and rhythms.  As a result of this warping, familiar musical elements are deterritorialized to create new forms, but they simultaneously run the risk of collapsing into their own black holes of signification.  

As black holes are both galactic destroyers and creators, this is a space of creation/desire and death/destruction.  Ultimately, the outside observer can not see when one falls into a black hole.  For the outside observer, the person falling appears to slow down and eventually stand still. From the perspective of the falling person though, their experience of time is unchanged.  Their descent is rapid and violent.  In the end, time is fractured in the distance between the observer and the participant, simultaneously being crushed in the infinite density of the blackhole and also perpetually existing, frozen at the edge of the event horizon."

The accompanying collection of curated screenshots, texts,  and charts can be found here - 
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFOodHLOsE/4QmunJ8V4RGC0Mgrrn7vMQ/edit?utm_content=DAFOodHLOsE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

The curation of these images is an ongoing process and subject to change.

BONUS: https://youtu.be/2tI6o-Bn5jQ 

This project was generously supported by the Musikfonds NEUSTART KULTUR program.

we were lost, forever (preview)

Black To Comm
Providence
1-sided Picture-Disc LP (Hybrid Vinyl)
Dekorder 074

Release Date: April 28, 2014

https://dekorder.bandcamp.com/album/providence

Dekorder 10-Year Anniversary Hybrid-Vinyl Series

Pye Corner Audio
Excepter
Bill Kouligas
Experimental Audio Research
Vindicatrix
Black To Comm
Kemialliset Ystävät
Ensemble Economique
Alien Radio

https://dekorder.bandcamp.com/album/10-year-anniversary-hybrid-vinyl-series

Black To Comm - Providence (Dekorder 074)

Commissioned by Tyler J. Borden from Mivos Quartet
Instrumentations: Cello with Live Electronics, Live Video and Lightings 
World Premiere: April 2016 	
Tyler J. Borden  
San Diego, USA

I Have the Right to [De]Story Myself [2013-2015]

Taurus Duo
Daniel Kantha & Andy Cowling
guitars: Bernd Martin (Granada)
recording: Hannover St. Benno Church Linden 2016

Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982)- Suite Madrileñas, Tirana (Taurus Duo)

Instrumentations: Bass Clarinet with Live Electronics 
Clarinet: Samuel Dunscombe 
Live Electronics: Hunjoo Jung 
San Diego, USA

refLEction refRAction difFRAction [2016]

Performed by TALEA Ensemble 
Live recording from DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City, NY, USA, August 1st, 2017. 
Produced by The Earle Brown Music Foundation, recorded during the TIME SPANS 2017 Festival

Discursive Unities [2017]

Instrumentations: Clarinet, Cello and Contrabass 
World Premiere: 	August 2018 
Ensemble Multilaterale 
Residency for Altitude University, Saint-Martin Vésubie, France

Take; Be Taken [2018]

Cherryrain Rec. (radio edit)

tiled

experimental event series run by Merve Cowling, @andycowling, @j-o_n-a, @johnrobinbold

XX.XX.22
15.10. Ludwig Wandinger, Hunjoo Jung
21.10. Viola Yip, Lain Iwakura
22.10. Black To Comm, Lukas Wegscheider

XX.XX.21
18.09.21 Thomas Pfaffinger, Bidisha Das
23.10.21 Anna-Katharina Schau, Tim Pauli
05.11.21 Michael Brailey, Marijana Janevska

Bidisha Das - live at SCHALLFRONT

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