RECOMBINANT FESTIVAL 2020

RECOMBINANT FESTIVAL 2020: "Clouds Of Confoundment"
Hosted by RML Founder, Director and Curator Naut Humon
Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7, 2020 | 7pm - 2am

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DAY 1
Recombinant 2020: Fennesz / Lillevan / Byetone / Britton Powell
CHRISTIAN FENNESZ & LILLEVAN (Austria & Germany)
"Agora" and other concert works

BYETONE (Germany)
Techno-tronic rhythmic frameworks from Raster Music

Saariselka (USA)
Atmospheric ambient Americana by Marielle Jakobson - (synths & voice) and Chuck Johnson (pedal steel & treatments).

Spider Compass Good Crime Band (USA)
Experimental noise performance art music unit

Britton Powell (USA)
Hyperreal mixed media - " If Anything Is"

CT::SWaM (USA)
International electro-acoustic multi channel surround audio works with Daniel Neumann and others

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DAY 2
Recombinant 2020: Ryoichi Kurokawa / 404.zero / Pod Blotz
RYOICHI KUROKAWA (Japan & Germany)
"subassemblies" - American immersive Film premiere

404.ZERO (Russia)
"Jet Lag" - mesmerizing mind- melting generative AV

Pod Blotz + Chelley Sherman (USA)
Suzy Poling ( LA ) operating an otherworldly and cathartic mix of electronics, modular synthesis, vox, rhythmic elements, tape manipulation, metals and field recordings with Chelley Sherman's ( SF ) trans visual aural optic Interplay.

Schmitt (USA)
Psychedelic extreme computer music hardcore

Aigokeros (USA)
Hallucinatory aural apex architectonics

Article Collection (USA)
Synthetic Aeronautical Spectra for morphological states

Amma Ateria (USA)
Externalizes daydream futurisms through resonance of stillness and noise

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Last year's compelling Recombinant Festival summoned the sounds and motions of some of the most renowned electronic artists from Asia, America. and Europe, and included the U.S. premiere of "As I Live and Breathe" by tone of the considered godfathers of electronic music Morton Subotnick, the West Coast premiere of the documentary on the legendary band Swans, and the Bay Area debuts of Shanghai's 33EMYBW (SVBKVLT) and Gooooose, and Beijing's Shao. Now in its fifth year, the festival promises an even more ambitious program, with live widescreen AV performances by:

Christian Fennesz (Austria) & Lillevan (Berlin) - concert extravaganza of "Agora," whose 2019's album's prominence on the Pitchfork list of best of year and decade has helped to elevate this expanded U.S. tour opener. The added unique presence of image blazer LILLEVAN united with the Fennesz watermark of oceanic treated guitars through stratospheric electronics will burrow through the endless summer memories of tomorrow's molten ambient abruptions. In the crowded field of electronica Christian Fennesz has remained pre-eminent, transcending its fads and subgenres, and probing beneath its shiny metallic surfaces to meld form with content. "The music enacts a remarkable black hole, a pit opening up, a cloud of unknowing" - David Sylvian

Ryoichi Kurokawa (Osaka & Berlin) is a true signature poet of the transformative cinema, lyrically transfiguring the analogic representations of the forces of nature and architecture into digital streams of wild synesthetic imagery and emotion. Those familiar with RML's past presentations of Herman Kolgen,, Ryoji Ikeda, and CineChamber artists Biosphere won't want to miss this American premiere of his newest most powerful "subassemblies" of surround sound / light and massive screen photogrammetry and staggering imagery.

Byetone (Germany) is Olaf Bender, one of the leading figures of the experimental electronic music scene, and veteran producer and co-founder of Raster-Noton. His spellbinding technotronic pulse, and brazen drone frequencies delve dangerously deeper into the penetrating hypnotic undercurrent that have characterized his unrelenting live AV sets throughout the Continents and decades.

404.Zero (Russia) are the super accomplished and ever compelling duo of Kristina Karpysheva and Sasha Aleksandr Letcius from St. Petersburg, Russia, whose mesmerizing real time generative art and custom coded tools cook up a mind altering AV substance of metastasized and modular digital matter, that is opulent and extraordinarily captivating to experience! Their S.F. debut of "Jet Lag" will conjure up fresh and frightening frontiers as a one-of-a-kind immersion whose synergistic and disembodied dimensions raise the bar on radical extensions of visually driven sound and image.

Saariselka (USA) is inspired by the meeting of earth and light, where slowly moving land masses merge with enveloping light fields. This sonic collaboration between composers Marielle Jakobsons (Fender Rhodes, organ, synthesizers) and Chuck Johnson (pedal steel guitar and treatments) is as expressive as it is enigmatic.

Pod Blotz (USA) & Chelley Sherman. Pod Blotz is Suzy Poling (L.A.), operating an otherworldly and cathartic mix of electronics, modular synthesis, vox, rhythmic elements, tape manipulation, metals and field recordings, with S.F.-based Chelley Sherman's trans-visual aural optic Interplay.

Schmitt (East Bay/USA) (psychedelic extreme computer music hardcore) + Aigokeros (hallucinatory aural apex architectonics ) + Article Collection (Synthetic Aeronautical Spectra for morphological states).

Spider Compass Good Crime Band (S.F./USA) is vulture feasting experimental noise performance art music. Andrew Goldfarb plays keyboards and drum beats while his vulture friend grinds, crashes, and destroys the melodies with harsh electronic effects. It's a beautiful combination of elements, featuring studio and live recordings.

Britton Powell (NYC/USA) - hyperreal mixed media |" If Anything Is."

Amma Ateria (Oakland/USA) (Jeanie Aprille Tang) is an electroacoustic composer, improviser, and sound artist, born in Hong Kong, and based in California. Her work externalizes daydream futurisms through resonance of stillness and noise.

CT::SWaM (NYC/USA) - international electro-acoustic multi-channel surround audio works with Daniel Neumann and others.

More artists and interventionists TBA.

Recombinant Media Labs (RML) was founded in 1991 by Naut Humon. Its mission was to research and deploy the cultural qualities and artistic potential of spatial cinema and surround musics.