DVRST
[ˈdʊrst] ↼ illbient | experimental
🔗🔗 CIRCLUSION 🔗🔗 July 17 2020 🔗🔗
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"a word that describes workers of the anus and the mouth, the vagina and the hand as active instead of passive (...) the ring and the tube are rendered active. that’s all there is to it."
Bini Adamczak, On Circlusion, 2016
“Circlusion” stands for an autonomous take on the allegedly diametric term of phallic penetration. Taking a grip of active pleasure for which there hadn’t even been a word for it before Adamczak’s essay in 2016, DVRST transgressively use the term for acts of personal and political empowerment to raise questions about privilege and power structures.
As such, their distinctively creeping industrial bass music tends to gradually suck recipients into their own abyss of self-perception, trauma and binary patterns of thought. Dragging drums consistently collide with dissolved walls of repetition, relishing the trance potential of classical minimalism, thus becoming the only perceivable sense of safety. As binding matter, deep swirling synths form an undertone of severe drone pressure as well as of volatile evaporation. While encrypted layers of vocalism roast the unease artistically and societally, they seemingly transform into entities of collective outrage hiving off into utopian spaces of solidarity.
Since late 2017, the duo Tanja Fuchs and Vinzenz Landl have been working together, creating auditory pieces stemming from their common background of pop flavoured free improvisational music. The emerging soundscapes breed discord and unity between contemporary club culture and avant-garde noise.
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"a word that describes workers of the anus and the mouth, the vagina and the hand as active instead of passive (...) the ring and the tube are rendered active. that’s all there is to it."
Bini Adamczak, On Circlusion, 2016
“Zirklusion” steht für einen autonomen Zugang zum vermeintlichen Antonym zur phallischen “Penetration”. In Aneignung einer Form aktiven und selbstbestimmten Lustempfindens, für das vor Adamczaks im Jahr 2016 erschienenen Essay nicht einmal ein Begriff existierte, verwenden DVRST das Wort übertragen auf Akte persönlicher wie politischer Ermächtigung, die Fragen um Privilegien und Machtstrukturen aufwerfen.
Ihre charakteristische, immersiv-industriell brodelnde Bassmusik schlingt die Rezipierenden nach und nach in deren eigene Abgründe von Selbstwahrnehmung, Trauma und binären Denkmustern. Sich dahin schleppende Beats kollidieren nachdrücklich mit in die Flauschigkeit zerschlagenen Mauern der Repetition, bedienen sich genüsslich am Trance-Potential des klassischen Minimalismus und scheinen der einzige hier wahrnehmbare Safe-Space zu sein. Als bindende Materie oszilliert ein Unterton aus düsteren Synthesizern zwischen flüchtig-pointierter Schärfe und eher unamüsierter Dronegewalt. Dazu schichten sich teils verschlüsselte Stimmlaute und Texte, die sowohl auf künstlerischer wie gesellschaftspolitischer Ebene mit den Grenzen des Unbequemen ins Gericht gehen. Diese verdichten und verselbstständigen sich zu einem scheinbar umzingelnden Mob kollektiver Empörung in utopische Räume der Solidarität.
Seit Ende 2017 arbeiten Tanja Fuchs und Vinzenz Landl als Duo an auditiven Stücken, die sie aus ihrem gemeinsamen Hintergrund, der freien improvisierten Musik mit nuancierten Pop-Einflüssen, heraus entwickeln. Die entstehenden Klangwerke polarisieren zwischen zeitgenössischer Klubkultur und avantgardistischer Noise.
artwork by Gergő Kovács @nufolklore / background photography by Moritz Morast
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Tanja Fuchs (DE)
Vienna based composer, DJ and curator Tanja Fuchs aka Abu Gabi is a progressive force between noise and radical bass vibrance, itching in pop and club cultural stigmata. She studied music production in Salzburg, music & performance in Istanbul and timebased media arts in Linz. Coming from anarcho-pop and improvisational music she’s an activist solo artist as well as part of the contemporary harsh club duo DVRST. Also as a writer, lecturer and curator she’s driven by the intense, deconstructed and allegedly incombinable (Klangfestival, Ars Elektronica Festival 2018, OK Klubinstitut 2019). She is also working at Ventil Records, Vienna based label for adventurous music.
Vinzenz Landl (AT)
Vienna based Vinzenz Gideon Landl studies electroacoustic and experimental music at the Institute for Electroacoustics (ELAK) Vienna. The musician and composer studied astronomy as well and works in sound engineering for film and music. He is part of the bands DVRST and Lurcheffekt (synthesizer / electronics) as well as being a free-jazz influenced drummer in e.g. the country-folk group MIL (drums / electronics). Since 2016 he is part of Klangfestival, since 2019 also member of SMOG collective.
🔗🔗 CIRCLUSION 🔗🔗
self-released | digital
release-date ↼ 17.07.2020
video-premiere ↼ 06.07.2020 by PW Magazine
release-show ↼ TBA
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dvrstig@gmail.com