MAATA is a well-known Moscow band, whose music can be simply described as warm, strong, inspiring, peaceful, beautiful, bright, free, alive, thin, astringent.

Orchestra section, two drums, guitar that brings everything together and the deep voice crowning it all – that is the sound of MAATA. Despite the impressive structure of  8 man, band's music is full of improvisation and spontaneity.

Lead vocalist Olga Milchenko and guitarist Alexei Viguro founded MAATA in early 2011, full of energy, they were working hard on improvisation with different genres and musicians. Group's debut album SJO (live) was released in January 2012. Now the band includes 8 musicians and features more than 20 instruments: Alexei Viguro – guitar, Olga Milchenko – vocal, glockenspiel; Sergei Rakitin – violin, guitar; Olga Kirianova – cello; Danila Lukianov – clarinet, piano; Kirill Osherov – tonbak, cajon; Andrew Tanzu – frame drums; Lilia Shaman Borisenko -  didgeridoo, percussion instruments, corrugated pipes etc. Ekaterina Saprina, the band's director, said ’’MAATA  is a strong and free eclectic soul of contemporary Russian music, a mix of European instrumental fusion music with a flavor of jazz and Eastern aesthetics”. 

The Moscow Eclectic Chamber Orchestra MAATA plays music that sounds unlike anything else, using the most unexpected combinations of instruments. The exotic percussion, glockenspiel, noise of corrugated pipes, didgeridoo and strong voice in one crescendo merges with clarinet, solo piano and classical string section, including guitar, violin and cello. The breath, filling every song of MAATA creates an amazing atmosphere full of creativity and expression. In each set musicians try to destroy their own frames of style and habits, not forgetting to create a bright, catchy melodies and powerful rhythms.


CHMOD è un collettivo di sound artists & visual artists con base a Bologna.
Il gruppo prende il nome dal comando CHMOD (ChangeMODe) dei sistemi operativi UNIX e UNIX-LIKE che permette di cambiare i privilegi utente di un file, ad esempio, da root a pubblico, a voler richiamare la natura aperta del collettivo.

Siamo aperti a collaborazioni, live set, installazioni site specific, release and more.



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CHMOD is a collective of sound and visual artists based in Bologna, Italy.
The group takes the name from command and system call CHMOD (ChangeMODE) in UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems, which may change the access permissions to file system objects,for example, from root to public, to represent the open essence of the collective.

Be free to contact us for any kind of collaboration, live set, site specific installations, release and more.


CHMOD are:

Bruno Armeni
Davide Bartolomei B.
Sofia Braga
Vincenzo Gentile
Katarina Poklepovic
Michele Quadri

Contacts:

chmod.artcollective@gmail.com

barto90@hotmail.it

sobeastmusic@gmail.com

info@gallleriapiu.com



I'm a composer and sound artist. I'm interested in the act of listening, phonography and finding musical ways to express these interests. Now and again I perform live with a laptop, creating soundscapes from field recordings. I do this solo, as Anvil & Stirrup with Antti Saario and with Annie Mahtani as SOUNDkitchen. I also compose music and create sound design for theatre, dance, film and audio drama.

More examples of my work are available here 
https://linktr.ee/iainarmstrong

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