08.11.2012

SONICAUDIOVISUALSERIES – episode VIIII

ZAIMPH is the solo project of ambient noise artist Marcia Bassett.

Although legendary for white-hot guitar and vocal brutality, Zaimph´s recent recordings and performances infuse cracked-raga song structures with dense electronic and synthesizer drones to create soundscapes where a lurking apocalypse is eclipsed by shimmering, meditative beauty.

As a co-founder of Philadelphia´s shambolic psychonauts un and tectonic drone pioneers Double Leopards, Bassett is deeply entwined with the American noise underground, and has mapped regions still only dimly understood by subsequent sonic travelers.

more info under: soundcloud.com/za-mph, zaimph.org

CONCERN is Gordon Wilson Ashworth, the man behind the legendary Oscillating Innards, member of Knelt Rote and proprietor of Iatrogenesis Records.

Using only acoustic sources and field recordings, Concern creates massive, emotionally-resonant drone pieces magnified by the fragility of magnetic tape. more under: soundcloud.com/concern

VALERIO TRICOLI Berlin-based composer, improviser, sound installation artist, producer, sound engineer and curator bridging musique concrete and conceptual forms of sound.

He mostly uses analogue electronic devices (reel-to-reel tape recorders, synthesizers, microphones, light effects, ultrasonic speakers).

The structure of the setup is ever-changing however, seeking multiple relations between the performers, the device and the space in which the event takes place. more under: soundcloud.com/tags/valerio%20tricoli

STEVEN WARWICK aka HEATSICK Berlin-based musician who performs solo under the moniker Heatsick and is also known as one half of the duo Birds of Delay. Heatsick uses various instruments including voice, keyboard and percussion to create saturated washes of tone, floating and disintegrating entropic loops, while also using deliberately broken continuity as a playful, live conceptual gesture. more under perpendicularrain.blogspot.de

BILL KOULIGAS is a sound artist and designer, better known for his solo project Family Battle Snake.

He also runs the cult-label PAN with vinyl editions of electronic and experimental artists. more under: pan-act.com