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David Wallraf. Noise artist, researcher and theorist located in Hamburg.

Releases on Econore, Industrial Coast and various other labels. Co-Founder and curator of Noisexistance. Worked with the late Prof. Hans-Joachim Lenger on the radio project AgoRadio.

Plays/played with H, Wallraf/Jetzmann, HSV and Wallraf/Delle.

In academia: BA in musicology at University of Hamburg, MA in time based media at Hochschule für bildende Künste, PhD on noise at HFBK.

Author of 'Grenzen des Hörens. Noise und die Akustik des Politischen [Limits of Hearing. Noise and the Acoustics of the Political]', published in January 2021.

https://davidwallraf.wordpress.com/
https://soundcloud.com/david-wallraf

YUKO ARAKI
(JAPAN, Room 40)

Yuko Araki is one of a number of young female artists emerging from Japan that are redefining the outer boundaries of noise, post-industrial techno and experimental electronics.

Raised as a pianist, Araki’s teenage obsession with metal opened a gateway towards various types of intense sonics. Exploring a range of diverse music projects over the past decade (KUUNATIC, Concierto de la Familia), her solo work resolved in 2019 after she developed an approach to freeform analog noise, releasing her first EP “I” via Indonesian label Gerpfast Kolektif and her debut album “II” via Italian label Commando Vanessa. Working with a reductive set of tools, her methodology was to create work that created a sense of timbral density and complexity through a weaving together of competing elements.
In April 2021 Australian label Room 40 releases “End Of Trilogy”: the new album pushes this approach outward, taking in almost Kosmiche sensibilities, creating a sound that glints with the unsteady radiation of a dissolving pulsar. The album is an offering of competing states of tension and release. It merges polychromatic pulses against waves of sheering noise and uneasy ruptures of sound.

End Of Trilogy is a record of unpredictable momentum and tempered ferocity. Even at its most intense. Yuko Araki’s work maintains a sense of playfulness, and a determination not to succumb to mere sonic nihilism. Drawing on techniques borrowed from 70s prog-rock and even free jazz, she dissolves expectation and in the process reveals an utterly personal approach to noise and experimental electronics.

End Of Trilogy is not merely a conclusion, but rather an interrogation of what comes next.

“Fierce as fuck” - THE WIRE

“Is it possible for noise to be harsh yet harmonious? Can it be scathing but symphonic? Yes, because all of those dichotomous descriptors apply to the noise, post-industrial techno, and experimental electronics that YUKO ARAKI makes. With her approach, a genre that’s easily one of the most challenging to listen to becomes a siren song that has my whole body moving.” - CVLT NATION

“Yuko Araki channels noisy psychedelia… tempering esoteric noise with playful brightness.” - FACT MAG

“End of trilogy pushes the ear’s limits, but it is also underlined by adventure, by the sense that the violence of these thought-storms is not something to repress, but to explore... This is the psychedelic connection that makes Araki’s work so powerfully compelling: the result of that violence is the dust we are made of, and it is through it that we think and feel.” - A CLOSER LISTEN

“The Japanese artist cultivates fresh soundscapes in the most aggressive, gruesome fashion in what is one of the most beguiling experimental offerings so far this year” - SUN 13

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/yukoarakiii
https://www.instagram.com/iamelectricat
https://yuko-araki.tumblr.com
https://www.facebook.com/swampbooking
https://www.instagram.com/swampbooking

https://yukoaraki.bandcamp.com/releases
https://soundcloud.com/user-519451989/sets/yuko-araki-ii
https://www.factmag.com/2021/02/26/yuko-araki-moonstroke-in-the-mountain

Daisy Dickinson is a London-based director/visual artist whose work involves experimental short film, music video, projected installation and live visual performance. She is one half of audio/visual collaboration ‘Adrena Adrena’ with drummer E-da Kazuhisa (Boredoms, Seefeel) as well as working on AV shows with other artists such as Samuel Kerridge & Taylor Burch, Yuko Araki, Snapped Ankles, Toy, Grimm Grimm, Seefeel and the HAHA Sounds Collective. Dickinson’s visuals have been described as ‘magmatic and sulphurous, cosmological and transcendental, drawing attention to the wonder of the earth and our sensuality on it’.​

Her shorts films have been screened at festivals such as The BFI London Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, Encounters Short Film Festival, among others and her installation work has shown at venues such as the ICA, The Tate Modern, Shepards Bush Empire and Village Underground in London, CERN in Geneva and Kraftwerk in Berlin, as well as completing audio-visual tours across the UK, Europe, Japan and Taiwan.

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Links:
https://www.daisydickinson.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/daisy_dickinson_films
https://www.facebook.com/daisydickinsonfilms