Editorial issue n° 11
Dear reader,
Recently I stumbled upon an interesting article, published in the mid-60s. Reading old essays about art is something of a habit of mine. It helps filtering out the noise that is inherent to the excess supply of information in our times. Some of that noise pertains to figuring out what the role should be of the KRAAK festival. If you attended last years’ editions, you know that the festival is associatively conceived as an assertion on the state of music, proposing a wild and highly intuitive cross section of who might be who and what could be what in off-stream music (notice the conditional character of last phrase).
20 February 2018 |
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David Edren
David Edren is the real name of the man behind the long-running and synth project DSR Lines, and his disguise to explore theme-based (non-modular) sound synthesis. Last year he released the piece Electronic Gamelan Music (Social Harmony, 2017) in which he redefines the exotica style using midi-controlled patterns. The soothing and slowly transmutating compositions channel mind burning micro-experiences, and are one of the best current experiments in new age.
20 February 2018 |
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David Edren
Social Harmony is
a non-academic research universe, in which DIETER DURINCK explores the mind-boggling properties of image, geometry and color. In this research he displays a fondness for the imperfection of RGB colors, VHS and tape grittiness and exotica from lost times when melancholy still was a good thing. Social Harmony presents the new synesthetic experience and tape by the Antwerp-based modular synth master David Edren. He will explore the possibilities of electronic gamelan music, redefine exotica and turn it into a mind burning experience. We had a chat about exotica, his work and his relation with the Antwerp scene over the last 10 years.
14 December 2017 |
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Social Harmony
Ghent based Dieter Durinck talks in this interview about a 1990s hiphop mixtape, a low budget diy store in the Ghent neighbourhood De Brugse Poort, moroccan tapes and 1980s new age. Those words actually form a pretty accurate description for his trans-medial publishers outlet Social Harmony.
06 December 2017 |
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