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Tekanan is the full-length debut of Melbourne-based Indonesian-Australian drummer and sound artist, Rama Parwata. A thorough exploration of rhythmic capabilities and percussive improvisation under ever-shifting timbral and stylistic environments, Tekanan is Parwata’s examination and documentation of his vast musical influences in electro-acoustic improvisation, Indonesian gamelan music, free jazz, electronic music, R&B, and noise music, whilst still maintaining an entirely unique non-idiomatic musical voice. Tekanan sees Parwata experimenting with not only the drum kit, but additionally implementing no-input mixing boards, musique-concréte sampling techniques, junk percussion, electric guitar, and computer music production to create a relentlessly metamorphosing soundscape that abruptly, yet seamlessly oscillates between ethereal ambiances to turbulent barrages of rhythm and noise through five unique movements.

Aptly named after the Indonesian word for pressure and stress, Tekanan was composed by Parwata with the intent of it being a listening experience which would pressure the listener to have no clear indication of the direction of the music and where it will ultimately settle, leading the listener on a sinuous, yet intriguing aural journey. This title additionally applies to the pressure of the challenging nature of the music, in a performative sense, which pushed Parwata to his physical and mental limits to perform and compose.

“As cliche or banal this might sound, I tried to make a record that was purposely made to be hard to put into a box. I didn’t want to make a “drumming” record or a noise record or anything of the type, but a record that just contained "good” music (or what I constitute as being good). Many aspects of my musical life were injected into this release: gamelan music (the first music I was exposed to), noise, hip-hop, free-improvisation, Xenakis, jazz, electronic music. Ultimately this record is a homage to those musical influences.” - Rama Parwata

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An active figure in Australia’s experimental music and art scenes, Parwata has worked with the likes of Marco Fusinato, Robin Fox, and Robbie Avenaim, and choreographers Stephanie Lake, Juliet Burnett, and Melanie Lane. He is also a member of seminal long-running Melbourne Doom Metal band, Whitehorse.

As of 2019, Parwata has been a co-curator and committee member of Melbourne’s legendary concert series, Make It Up Club, which has been presenting weekly avant-garde improvised performances since 1998.

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Tekanan

Rama Parwata - I - from Tekanan Cassette - Pre-Order Available Now

DANIELLA LJUNGSBERG - AVIKO KNEW

Death Synth Box is perfectly intertwining into this stinking raw black noise that has been established into the discography of the project, this work is committed to the uprising of total devastation as we have seen with previous Controlled Death releases. Here is presented the embodiment of impure Lo-Fi black noise at its best combined with compositions of utter magnificence. The sounds come from hell, the realm of noise and stench, where men and women wander around crying. The place of the murmuring bedlam, where the giant Nimrod stands out, punished for having recklessly thought of erecting the tower of Babel, with a gigantic horn around his neck that has such a frightening sound that only the "infernal machines" of Maso Yamazaki reproduce it faithfully.
The atmospheres and hums that comes from the bits of CDs "now the painful notes begin" are those of the crackling fire, of the bubbling pitch, of the screaming wind and those that come out of the bodies of devils. Then only moans, sighs, tears, phrases in different languages, horrible speeches, words of pain, accents of anger, high and low voices created by the intertwining of cables and analog processors, without the use of the artist's voice, which it is never present in this monumental and truly admirable work for its dramatic quality, where the ability to recreate the evoked sounds only with cold machines is expressed in an amazing way. Just as the pathos is comparable to the fatal and death-bearing sound of Orlando, when in the battle of Roncesvalles, alongside Charlemagne he falls pierced by his enemies.
Released in an amazing painted and engraved wooden box in 199 hand numbered copies, Death Synth Box contains five CD in cardboard wallets for a duration of more than 5 hours totals, which tear the mind with self-destructive and agonizing screams of synthesizers and then contrasts with the sounds from blossoming machines with other synths and effects. Complete a black cardboard with a picture from Death Control Studios and amazing poster. As essential as they come. Link in bio.

Controlled Death - Untitled Excerpt(from Death Synth Box 4)

Live concert at Tyska kyrkan, Stockholm. 3/10/14
Performed by Johan Graden and Marcus Pal.

DISQUIET (heart)

Party Couch (140)

"4"  for flute solo (play by Zoia Hodan)

From the installation MATTER OF FACT that consists of 5 audio-visual 
compositions:

1. Myself
2. People
3. Society
4. Depression
5. Differences

Commissioned by Norient and CTM for «Seismographic Sounds» exhibition at the CTM Festival 2016 Berlin.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/153378029

All vocal cut-ups are from the interviews with various artists, provided by Norient 

Read the interview: http://gatomonodesign.de/wordpress/svetlana-maras-on-her-video-istallation-matter-of-fact/

More info: https://www.svetlanamaras.com/matteroffact.html

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Matter of fact - MYSELF

Felisha Ledesma Live with 16mm projections by Mia Ferm 
Sarah Davachi Live at S1
Christina Kubisch 

@sarahdavachi @christina-kubisch @s1portland @n10-as

cyanescens 333

This is a work-in-progress and part of a research presented via https://a-desk.org/magazine/within-visual-phenomena-vol-i/


Sound Recordings / Sections:

I — Floaters - Minute 0:00 — 2:02
II — Blue Field - Minute 2:03 — 4:40
III — Tree - Minute 4:42 — 8:58
IV — Hourglass Pattern - Minute 9:06 — 11:13
V — Blue Arcs - Minute 11:13 — 11:34
VI — Phosphene - Minute 11:35 — 14:01

Barcelona — August / September 2019

Within Visual Phenomena Vol. I

Arnau Sala Saez — Within Visual Phenomena Vol. I

Fyzz 
album available on bandcamp 5/1/2020
mastered by glyn maier

Fyzz

From KR001 ZERRO Redux by Apulati Bien
Available October 6 2020: https://krutrecords.bandcamp.com/
Music by Apulati Bien: https://soundcloud.com/apulati-bien ~ https://apulatibien.bandcamp.com/
Artwork by Rufus Mich

Apulati Bien - Ajust

Composer and sound artist. Professor of Creative Music Technology and Co-head of Electronic Studio - Basel. Ex Head of Radio Belgrade's Electronic Studio
www.svetlanamaras.com
marasoffice@gmail.com
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Maraš has presented her work internationally, at venues, festivals and events such as  Ruhr Triennial, CTM (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz), House of Electronic Arts (Basel), Ruhr Triennial, Espace Multimedia Gantner (Bourogne), Musikprotokoll (Graz), Heroines of Sound (Berlin), Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), Ausland (Berlin), Izlog Suvremenog Zvuka (Zagreb), ICMC (New York), International Rostrum of Composers (Wroclaw), ISEA (Dubai), International Music Institute (Darmstadt), Orpheus Institute (Ghent) and many other places. Her music was used in theatre plays, experimental and documentary films, presented at places like MOMA (New York), Aubagne International Film Festival and Bitef theatre (Belgrade).
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Svetlana Maraš was SHAPE artist for 2020, and co-curator of 4fakultät concert series in Hamburg.

Matter of fact - MYSELF

Svetlana Maraš

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