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Swiss experimenters, players with the sounds and traditions of hip-hop, Eisentanz and Bit-Tuner, came to the new “electricity” in St. Petersburg.

Eisentanz

"Pipe". The sewage pipe from PVC, the length is 2.4 m, is called by the microphone. It can be lowered into a barrel of water to change the sound height. Used in the songs "Tube" , "Industube" , "REH" .

"Metal papal drum." Left arm: a steel corner; right hand: aluminum corner; Left leg: metal sheet; Right leg: aluminum plate. Sounds from all plates are removed with microphones and reproduced with the application of electronic effects. Used in the songs "Am Robot" , "Industube" , "Do You Want To Dance?"

"Springs". Two springs and a car shock absorber installed on a wooden resonator. Produce long metal sounds. Used in the song "Black Hope" .

And so on. The audio artist and musician from the alfalfa, calling himself Eisentanz , that is, the “iron dance”, carefully catalogs the instruments hesitated by him (in addition to these, for example, “voting” and “schrotophone”). He works with sounds in the same way: armed with sticks and a recorder, walks along landfills and industrial facilities, taps potentially sonorous garbage and elements of metal structures and takes home - either a new tool itself, or a record that is then charged into a sampler. Eisentanz - collector. It seems that first of all he is interested in the sounds in themselves, and not for some statement. In any case, at the beginning of his three -minute self -portrait, he says: “I am trying to combine noise and sounds, achieving interesting acoustic effects. Such that the listener is amazed that he hears that it is something that he never heard. "

The sound palette, however, turns out to be a familiar. (It is unlikely that there is such a pipe or metal crossbar, according to which Bargeld and Company did not knock on the Eisentanz industrial noise, who survived the enthusiasm of Gothic Rock, Kraftwerk and EBM , adds the sounds of the synthesizer and special effects. It turns out anxious and dance collages in cyber-sai-fi-ovus. Eisentanz live performances, in fact, are an “iron dance”: having put on a “metal pectoral drum” and turning on an electronic minus, the musician launches samples from his audio text, howling himself, and plays on the sounding objects that are furnished with the scene.

Bit-Tuner

Another Swiss in the linep of the current Electro-Mechanics, Marseille Hshwend, aka Bit-Tuner , is also engaged in music built in the game with samples. Only in his case, the material is the finds made not in the course of field research, but when listening to the records. Bit-Tuner started on hip-hop scene, recording music for his Emsi friends and focusing, apparently, on the Anticon , El-P and other experimenters from the genre. (Characteristic examples of the works of this early period are joint tracks with rappers Göldin and Sensation . In the video “Up in the Smoke” , by the way, you can see our hero with his first tool-bass gitar.) And that he studied with quotes, being included in hip-hop-stridition, is also audible in his current music.

After all, a quote can be not only a fragment of some phrase, snatched from context. A recognizable timbre also works as a reference, indicating, if not a specific work, then to some archetype (remember, for example, a special, “cosmic” synthesizer sound, clearly associated with scenes from films in which the ship slowly floats through a starry void). Surprisingly: you listen to Bit-Tuner music-and some faulty daylight lamps, video from surveillance cameras and androids flash in your head. And then you watch his clips, you read the interview - and there are lamps, cameras, and "running around the blade of razor." And by the way, David Lynch. As before, when GSHVEVD worked with rappers, his music is full of a vague threat created by a disorienting crossroads of unclear associations - only now this threat, or, perhaps, frustration, is not articulated by anyone, except that with rare sales votes. (It is curious that at his concerts, dancing in front of the table with samplers, Hshvend from time to time makes gestures that Emsi usually accompany the reading, but it seems that he does not say anything.) However, the degree of all these negative emotions is reduced to pleasantly tickling. By the way, the Bit-Tuner skill is appreciated not only on dance floors: his music sounds both at fashion shows , and, for example, in video installations of artists from ! Mediengruppe Bitnik , who sent Julian Assange a parcel with a webcam.

Together with Eisentanz and Bit-Tuner , a quintet of Suffix.tv , a team that is responsible, for example, for the dance of the patterns that occurs behind the back of the video in the above video, goes to the Electro-Mechanics. Nothing is known about these people, except that they decided to unite forces in 2005 and that in addition to their concert activities, some of them lead and pedagogical - teach in Swiss schools of design and art. Be that as it may, it is clear that a musical connection to a common bank of visual associations will be strengthened by a spectacular picture.