Artifact Unknown is a new music and sound project by Benjamin Bacon (SoundSpade). Music for the Isolation was recorded in a small hotel room in Durham, North Carolina during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus in the USA. This mini-release was recorded with a minimal setup of a Steinberg audio interface, MacBook Pro, and performed on the Moog Matriarch.

Artifact Unknown - Music for the Isolation

SoundSpade - Far ~ Away
From the album A Future Robots Funeral.
Composed, recorded and copyright Benjamin Bacon (SoundSpade).

SoundSpade - Far ~ Away - A Future Robots Funeral

Harmony Bullet Train at China

Ladies & Gentlemen, Welcome Aboard Harmony. at East XuZhou, China

DJ Set 1 & 2 By SoundSpade (Bacon) for Black Eyeliner With Santo Chino at DADA Bar Beijing, November 22, 2013.

DJ SoundSpade - Black Eyeliner With Santo Chino - DADA Beijing - Set 2 - 11.22.2013

Siouxsie Sioux Excerpt From The TV Show Play At Home With Siouxsie And The Banshees

Play At Home With Siouxsie And The Banshees - Siouxsie Sioux Excerpt

Play At Home With Siouxsie And The Banshees - Robert Smith Excerpt

Black Eyeliner - SoundSpade - With FM3老赵 + CAVIA + Shanyinde - Dada Bar Shanghai - May 15, 2015

SoundSpade - 天亮 - Daybreak - Recorded Live on 2015-05-28 at Voltage Divider I at DADA Shanghai. Other live acts included: FM3LaoZhao + CHARM and White+.

VOLTAGE DIVIDER • 分压器 // WHITE+ • FM3LAOZHAO + CHARM • SOUNDSPADE • PENG ZHUANG + VINYL SOUNDSCAPE RECORDS

05月28日 · 星期四 · 2015 · THURSDAY · MAY 28TH
22:00 - LATE · FREE · 免费

Voltage Divider • 分压器 reboots as a bi-monthly event at DADA Shanghai that explores different experimental and avant-garde musical styles and non-traditional production methods. Joining resident SOUNDSPADE (USA/Shanghai) for May 2015 are special guests including PENG ZHUANG + VINYL SOUNDSCAPE RECORDS (Shanghai), FM3LAOZHAO + CHARM (USA/Beijing) and headlining the show is WHITE+ (Beijing, Carsick Cars, The Gar). Visuals and interactive installation by BRKR.

WHITE+ // 白+
beijing // 北京 // Carsick Cars

FM3LAOZHAO • FM3 + CHARM • 演出
usa • beijing // 美国 • 北京 
>> https://soundcloud.com/buddha-machine
>> http://www.mixcloud.com/joshfeola

PENG ZHUANG + VINYL SOUNDSCAPE RECORDS
usa • shanghai // 美国 • 上海

SOUNDSPADE
number stations live • 数字电台现场 
usa • shanghai // 美国 • 上海 // black eyeliner • 黑眼线 // voltager divider • 分压器
>> http://www.lizhi.fm/#/1351052
>> https://soundcloud.com/soundspad

VISUALS • BRKR
usa • shanghai // 美国 • 上海

dada 上海 · dada shanghai
幸福路115号, 近法华镇路 · 上海 ·shanghai · 115 xingfu lu, near fahuazhen lu

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天亮 - Day Break - Recorded Live - 2015-05-28 - Voltage Divider I - DADA Shanghai

DJ Mix By SoundSpade For Black Eyeliner With Special Guest DEAD J At DADA Beijing On July 24th, 2015.

Black Eyeliner - DJ Mix By SoundSpade - With Special Guest DEAD J - DADA Beijing - 2015-07-24

SoundSpade - Sophia Skeleton - Parts I to IV - Beijing Live Bounce On November 2nd, 2015.

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Sophia Skeleton - Parts I to IV - Beijing Live Bounce

// UNFORTUNATELY THE RECORDING IS NOT THE GREATEST //

THE CENTAURS Episode 8: Carl Stone 
With Support from Peng Zhuang and SoundSpade

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has been hailed by the Village Voice as "the king of sampling." and "one of the best composers living in (the USA) today." He has used computers in live performance since 1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between San Francisco and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and the Near East. In addition to his schedule of performance, composition and touring, he is on the faculty of the Department of Media Engineering at Chukyo University in Japan. 

Stone utilizes a laptop computer as his primary instrument and his works often feature very slowly developing manipulations of samples of acoustic music, speech, or other sounds. Because of this, as well as his preference for tonal melodic and harmonic materials similar to those used in popular musics, Stone's work has been associated with the movement known as minimalism.

Date: Friday, December 11th, 2015 
Venue: YunCai Cafe Shanghai


CARL STONE - THE CENTAURS 8 - LIVE - DECEMBER 11 2015

BLACK EYELINER • 黑眼线 • Welcome To Fear City • DJ Sets By SoundSpade • Cangku Bar • Beijing • June 4th 2016.

DJ Sets

1. BLACK EYELINER • 黑眼线 • Welcome To Fear City • CangKu Bar • Beijing • 6.4.2016 • Main DJ Set (2 Hours 27 Minutes 36 Seconds)

2. BLACK EYELINER • 黑眼线 • Welcome To Fear City • CangKu Bar • Beijing • 6.4.2016 • Warm Up DJ Set (1 Hour 10 Minutes 11 Seconds)

BLACK EYELINER • 黑眼线 • Welcome To Fear City • CangKu Bar • Beijing • 6.4.2016 • Warm Up DJ Set

Alpine Decline And GOOOOOSE Performing Live Modular Synthesizer Sets At Voltage 分压器 Divider + Sub-Cinema Presents on June 7th, 2016 At Shelter Shanghai.

— The Epic 4 Hour Modular Synthesizer Documentary • I DREAM OF WIRES
— Live Modular Synthesizer Performances After The Documentary By • ALPINE DECLINE (Maybe Mars) + GOOOOOSE
— Interactive + Visuals • Dogma Lab

Tracks
1. GOOOOOSE - Live Modular Set At Voltage Divider + Sub-Cinema - Shelter - Shanghai - 2016.06.07
2. Alpine Decline -  Live Modular Set At Voltage Divider + Sub-Cinema - Shelter - Shanghai - 2016.06.07

GOOOOOSE - Live Modular Set At Voltage Divider + Sub-Cinema - Shelter - Shanghai - 2016.06.07

Earsnail is a Beijing electronic music band consisting of Wang Xu (White+ drummer) and Yan Shuai (Da Bang guitarist ). Both of them have been actively playing in different bands for more than a decade in China. They are trying to create unique sound and interesting tunes, in a way that no one else has played before. 

耳蜗（earsnail）来自北京，成员：王旭 (白＋ 鼓手)，阎帅 (Da Bang 吉他手)，风格方向以电子乐为主，成立于2015年末，成员各自玩乐队十年有余，两人希望用不一样的声音或者以前没有尝试过的想法来做一些有意思的音乐


Ants

DJ Set By SoundSpade From MOMA Music Festival In LiuZhou, China On July 30th, 2016. 

MOMA Music Festival - LiuZhou - 2016.07.30

SoundSpade - DJ Set - MOMA Music Festival - LiuZhou - 2016.07.30

Soundspade - A Pocket Full Of (Side-Line Magazine -  Face The Beat Session 4 Compilation) -- https://sidelinemag.bandcamp.com/track/a-pocket-full-of-kic-shanghai-version

https://sidelinemag.bandcamp.com/album/face-the-beat-session-4

Side-Line Magazine launches 4th volume in their popular free 'Face The Beat' series: "Face The Beat: Session 4" - 92 tracks from the industrial underground!

It's almost one year ago that we launched the 3rd volume in the Side-Line powered charity compilation series "Face The Beat". During the past few months we have completed a brand new volume again focusing on getting as many unsigned bands as possible aboard. And what a ride it has been... as we have again been inundated with thousands of submissions. The quality was so high this time that we have increased the number of bands that could participate this time.

"Face The Beat: Session 4" counts 92 tracks (!) from electro / industrial / experimental bands based allover the world.
All the participating bands have one thing in common: they all are supporting our charity work, which this time will go to build a sanitary installation for a public hospital (based in the Mexican state of Veracruz). Why Mexico? Our chief editor Bernard Van Isacker explains: "When I was in Mexico to get wedded earlier this year, I was rushed to a public hospital (where usually the poor people go) with a serious back injury. I was so incredibly well-received and helped out even though it was very clear that the hospital was very much underfunded. The doctors, the nurses, they have done a splendid job in caring for me. But one thing struck me during this period and that was that the poor people waiting outside (sometimes for hours) had no toilet facilities or a place where they could take care of their babies. The hospital had no funds to build this, so I decided to help them out financially. But what I gave isn't sufficient to finish the construction and complete the sanitary facilities. That's when I realised that the charity project to be supported this time by Face The Beat should be this. You know, we are so damn lucky with our public health service here in Europe. So, if you want to help out, then please donate, you'll make the life of so many people a lot easier and comfortable."

"Face The Beat: Session 4" was compiled by Bernard Van Isacker and features lots of new talents, and several familiar 'faces', from the electro, wave, industrial, dubstep, dark folk scene who wanted to put their shoulders under this release. You'll find well known acts such as The Psychic Force, Kant Kino, Antibody, and many more next to a huge lot of new talents which caught our attention in the past few months, many of these bands don't have a label contract or have just been signed recently.

The material was carefully mastered by Erlend Eilertsen (Essence Of Mind) for your best audio pleasure.

Reaching the end of this tumultuous year, and closing in on the Christmas and New Year's festivities we count on you to be generous with your donations - it's no obligation of course, but you'll make sure that thousands of people will be able to wait in human conditions during their hospital visit.

Good to know, there will be no middleman to transfer the donations and just like the previous time the Side-Line team will be donating 500 Euro too just to show you how much we care about this project. You can also support this project with recurrent donations at www.side-line.com/donations/ if you wish to.

Many thanks to all of the bands and labels that have sent material, too many to name (over 2400 this time), and congratulations to all the bands that have made our selection! United we can show that we have our heart at the right place!

A Pocket Full Of (KIC Shanghai Version)

A Pocket Full Of (Side-Line Magazine -  Face The Beat Session 4 Compilation)

Lets Get Naked & Listen To A Bunch Of Voltage 分压器 Divider

Last Month of The Shelter.. Sad to see a legendary venue and cornerstone of underground and independent electronic music in China leave us.. But I'm sure the good people behind the scenes are scheming an amazing comeback next year.

Live Electronics & Performances By // 电子现场 & 表演 阵容:

• MICROSEQ
• FLØØØD 
• NOISE ARCADE
• 33
• GOOOOOSE
• XC3N
• ZEBRE ROUGE
• PENG ZHUANG
• LOADS~NOTHING
• SOUNDSPADE

• DJ COMPACT DICK

• Visuals And Interactive Works By // 视效互动 : DOGMA Lab

Sunday • December 11th • 2016 // 星期四 • 12月11日 • 2016 • 18:00 • 40RMB • The Shelter • Shanghai // 庇护所TheShelter • 上海

Lets Get Naked And Listen To A Bunch Of Voltage Divider - 2016.12.11 - The Shelter - Shanghai

GOOOOOSE + LOADS~NOTHING - Live At Lets Get Naked And Listen To A Bunch Of Voltage Divider

PENG ZHUANG - Live At Lets Get Naked And Listen To A Bunch Of Voltage Divider

XC3N - Live At Lets Get Naked And Listen To A Bunch Of Voltage Divider

The Centaurs + Voltage Divider Present Mark Verbos 

GOOOOOSE - Live At Yuyintang Livehouse Shanghai May 17, 2017

B6 - Live At Yuyintang Livehouse Shanghai May 17, 2017

Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider - July 2nd 2017 - Club ALL - Shanghai

1. SoundSpade - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Modular Set One)
2. GOOOOOSE - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Set One)(Recording FAILED!)
3. LoN - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Set One)
4. Stefana Fratilia - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider
5. SoundSpade - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Modular Set Two)
6. LoN - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Set Two)
7. Far Infinity - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider
8. GOOOOOSE - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Set Two)(Recording FAILED!)

Interactives by DOGMA

Sunday, July 2nd 2017 -- VOLTAGE 分压器 DIVIDER returns from hiatus to Club ALL in Shanghai. We have two special guests for this event: Stefana Fratila (Romanian) from Toronto, Canada and Far-Infinity, previously based in Beijing but now based in Shanghai. Rounding the evening out is GOOOOOSE, LoN and SoundSpade.

Voltage 分压器 Divider July 2nd 2017 At Club ALL Shanghai

LoN - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Set One)

Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider - July 2nd 2017 - Club ALL - Shanghai

1. SoundSpade - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Modular Set One)
2. GOOOOOSE - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Set One)(Recording FAILED!)
3. LoN - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Set One)
4. Stefana Fratilia - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider
5. SoundSpade - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Modular Set Two)
6. LoN - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Set Two)
7. Far Infinity - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider
8. GOOOOOSE - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Set Two)(Recording FAILED!)

Interactives by DOGMA

Sunday, July 2nd 2017 -- VOLTAGE 分压器 DIVIDER returns from hiatus to Club ALL in Shanghai with a 2 part live musical series in July. We have two special guests for this event: Stefana Fratila (Romanian) from Toronto, Canada and Far-Infinity, previously based in Beijing but now based in Shanghai. Rounding the evening out is GOOOOOSE, LoN and SoundSpade.

Far Infinity - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider

History (SoundSpade Dirty|Clean Remixes)

1. DFG - History (SoundSpade V.3 DIRTY)
2. DFG - History (SoundSpade V.3 CLEAN)

Original song by Duck Fight Goose from the History 7 inch, 2012.

https://www.discogs.com/Duck-Fight-Goose-History/master/898568

SoundSpade is Benjamin Bacon

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SoundSpade - History Remixes

DFG - History (SoundSpade V.3 DIRTY)

Voltage 分压器 Divider

16 July 2017 // 8 pm Doors // 9 pm Performances // 40RMB // ALL Shanghai

Sunday, July 16th, Part 2 of VOLTAGE 分压器 DIVIDER July series of live music events at Club ALL in Shanghai. We have Noise Arcade returning from Beijing, 33 solo from Duck Fight Goose, Uptown R&B legends Peng Zhuang, the mysterious Flitsill, XC3N returns with his hyper 8-bit and SoundSpade.

Tracks

1. Peng Zhuang - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider
2. XC3N - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider
3. SoundSpade - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider (Modular / A Future Robot Funeral)
4. 33 - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider
5. Noise Arcade - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider

Voltage 分压器 Divider - July 16th 2017 At Club ALL Shanghai

Noise Arcade - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider

33 - Live At Voltage 分压器 Divider

SoundSpade - A FUTURE ROBOT FUNERAL (Demo.2)

Recorded At DOGMA on August 6th, 2017

Benjamin Bacon is SoundSpade

A FUTURE ROBOT FUNERAL (DEMOS)

SoundSpade - A FUTURE ROBOT FUNERAL (Demo.2)

Volume I - Dirty Disco - Live And Remastered

Accept The Candy - DOGMA Lab Shanghai - April 19th 2015 (Live and Remastered)

Modular Roll - Club ALL Shanghai - July 2nd 2017 (Live and Remastered)

Far - Intro from A Future Robots Funeral by SoundSpade. Composed by Benjamin Bacon between 2018 - 2019. Composed, recorded and copyright Benjamin Bacon (SoundSpade).

A Future Robots Funeral

Far - Intro (A Future Robots Funeral - Berlin Mix)

Away (The Day After - A Future Robots Funeral)(Shanghai Mix) by SoundSpade. Composed by Benjamin Bacon between 2018 - 2019. Copyright Benjamin Bacon (SoundSpade).

A Future Robots Funeral (Pre-Mix)

Away - The Day After (A Future Robots Funeral - Shanghai Mix)

Music for the Isolation

Artifact Unknown - Music for the Isolation I

Artifact Unknown - Music for the Isolation II

Artifact Unknown is a new music and sound project by Benjamin Bacon (SoundSpade). Performed and recorded live in a small hotel room in Durham, North Carolina on the Moog Matriarch (midi controller) + Elektron Digitone.

Imperfections are the textures of life.

Cultivating Green

Artifact Unknown - Cultivating Green

I am a new media artist, musician and Associate Professor of Media & Arts at Duke Kunshan University. Current music and sound projects: SoundSpade / Artifact Unknown. Co-Founder of DOGMA. https://benjaminbacon.studio

SoundSpade / Artifact Unknown

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