Mike Nigro / Matthew D. Gantt / Lula Asplund / Babak Ahteshamipour
Four sets of electronic sound by Mike Nigro (USA), Matthew D. Gantt (USA), Lula Asplund (USA) and Babak Ahteshamipour (Iran/Greece).
Mike Nigro is an electronic musician and label operator based in Sydney, Australia (previously Brooklyn, NY and Newark, Delaware). His solo practice and collaborations draw inspiration from the minimalists, early synthesizer pioneers, and contemporary experimental underground. His work explores the spaces between musicality and noise; movement and stasis; synthetics and organics. He’s released music with stalwart champions of underground experimentalism such as Constellation Tatsu, Lillerne Tapes, Phinery, A Giant Fern, and his own Oxtail Recordings. Oxtail Recordings is a record label focusing on “ambient noise and broken songs,” which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2024 with showcases in Australia, USA, and EU. The label has been featured in The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, NPR, SPIN, Tiny Mix Tapes and A Closer Listen, among others.
www.oxtailrecordings.bandcamp.com/music
Matthew D. Gantt is an artist, composer and educator from Troy, New York. His practice focuses on sound in virtual spaces, generative systems facilitated by idiosyncratic technology, and digital production presets as sonic readymades He worked between 2016 and 2018 in the studio of electronics pioneer Morton Subotnick. He participates in the international creative community by presenting his work at venues such as Pioneer Works, Issue Project Room, Roulette, Babycastles, SVA Visible Futures Lab, Feral File, IRCAM, ICST Zurich and countless DIY venues. Gantt releases music with Orange Milk and Oxtail Recordings. He is a member of the NEW INC group at the New Museum and has taught experimental composition in both institutional and DIY contexts. His work has been featured on The Wire, Pop Matters, Exclaim!, Tiny Mix Tapes, Bandcamp New and Notable, and more.
www.orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/diagnostics
Lula Asplund is an experimental composer and performer of electroacoustic music working between Chicago and the Bay Area. Asplund’s work brings together visceral sonic elements of psychoacoustics and spectral synthesis to explore dream worlds, memory palaces, alchemy, and wonder. Whispers are disguised and latticed together into an intimate web, hoping to extend a glimpse into a vignette barely held together by strings. Somewhere among ambient, psychedelic, spectral, and experimental, Asplund works with sound as raw material.
www.lulaa.bandcamp.com/album/a-matinee
Babak Ahteshamipour is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer and musician based in Athens, Greece. His works expand across many disciplines such as 3D, graphic design and music that collide into unison exploring topics from cyberspace to ecology and politics to identity via gaming and internet culture. His work has been presented across festivals, venues & spaces such as Centre Pompidou and Milan Machinima Festival, and has been featured on magazines and platforms such as Bandcamp daily and CTM festival’s magazine.
www.daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/babak-ahteshamipour-violent-violins-exposed-review