Demdike Stare - live
Demdike Stare
28/05/2013
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21:30
by Node
Running time 1h 30'
Demdike Stare is a duo formed by Mancuniani Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty: the first active for years as a solo producer and DJ of the referenced record label Modern Love, the second avid collector of music at 360 degrees. Together they create a sound world that defies definition, a paradox in which Whittaker's techno inclinations coexist with Canty's exotic sounds that helps to focus audiovisual landscapes of rare intensity.
Their research focuses on the technique of sampling, technical device that allows them to develop a dense poetic of reminiscences giving a new shape to the pre-existing sound material; excerpts of scores, fragments of jazz, echoes of ethnic and concrete music are transformed into a flow of sound powerful, mysterious, rhythmic.
Similar treatment is reserved for images that accompany their performances, a sort of surreal and dreamlike collage that combines fragments of forgotten films. As two art archaeologists, Whittaker and Canty evoke the past, allowing us to interpret it with the eyes of the contemporary.
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Demdike Stare
Demdike Stare is the occult themed collaboration between Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker. Using the stepping stones of vinyl and VHS history as inspiration, and obscure hardware as the means, Demdike Stare create ethereal music that emanates from the unconscious. Fusing starkly different musical backgrounds, Sean hails from the Finder's Keeper's stable, and Miles through his numerous techno orientated monikers, they blend the two distinct worlds and genre obfuscation becomes the norm. Crossing from cold analog drones to hints of lush Eastern mysticism without losing focus, Demdike Stare create their own unique atmosphere during their live shows, sampling VHS movies and soundtracking their journey through the visual and aural archive of the last 50 years.