Tripped-out techno innovator Spekki Webu and visual artist Matti Vilho checkout cycles of death and renewal in a imaginary vision of boundless reincarnation and psychological improvement.
Spekki Webu hasactually been transferring the Dutch underground electronic music scene to alternate measurements for over 15 years. Probing the lysergic areas in-between techno, hypnotictrance and ambient, the DJ and manufacturer conjures immersive sonic worlds with a preternatural ear for thick, narcotic structures soaked with propulsive stress and extraterrestrial environment. Between his famous sets, his own productions and his prominent label, Mirror Zone, Spekki Webu has showed a direct line of contact with these worlds, makingitpossiblefor audiences to tune in to their weird frequencies and share in their transformative prospective. With Optic Portal, a multidisciplinary imprint refracted straight from the Mirror Zone, he looksfor to shed light on these exploratory transmissions, working with audiovisual artists to make these sounds noticeable. It’s this desire that lies of the heart of Signal Transmutations, a partnership with visual artist Matti Vilho, managed by Joni Stanley of Veli Studio, one of the co-founders of Post Bar and one of the minds behind Solstice Festival, where Spekki Webu played live for the extremely initially time. “I’m captivated about the interconnectedness of audio signals and digital real-time image generation,” discusses Matti Vilho. “Signal Transmutations for me is about the birth, death and renewal of digital signals impacting each other with every cycle. It’s like a metaphor for our lives.” In the excerpt provided above, Spekki Webu and Matti Vilho provide us a look of their brand-new, live AV program, which they will be debuting lateron this year.
“When the time hasactually come to go for us people and we have discovered adequate over the course of life, we signupwith the brand-new measurement and gointo the light. Signal Transmutations is our pointofview on this take,” includes Spekki Webu. “I see the experience of Signal Transmutations as a meditative journey which you can dive deep into and zone out. You puton’t requirement to comprehend whatever, the feelings that occur are most essential,” continues Matti Vilho. Spekki Webu spirals through an climatic assemblage of gas leakage environment, immersed skitter and had drum programs, swirling thick beads of reverb through exuding loops of discovered sound, riding a consistent sneaking stress inbetween natural and artificial textures that is showed back in Matti Vilho’s cyclical landscape, the renewal loop manifested in the time signatures of the music and the area of the virtual world. Screens are immersed in overload water as far future technological userinterfaces hover and turn, radiant fiberoptic cabletelevisions drape from an massive cluster of fungi, wires injury firmly into its mycelium. “The mix of alien and ordinary has constantly been present in my work,” states Matti Vilho. “The giant fungus-like tree is an abstraction of the Tree of Life, linking the past and present in a constant fluid cycle.” Trance-inducing noise streams inbetween smears of hallucinogenic colour, natural matter and alien hardware, all recorded through the imprint’s name ‘optic portal’. “The enjoyable thing is that Matti hasn’t been sendingout out any visuals to get my music going,” notes Spekki Webu. “I began establishing sketches of noise and shared this with him. The visual world structure took off naturally from there. It’s a shared bond of trust we constructed over time.”
“When carryingout my music, I am constantly attempting to send a set of feelings,” he continues. “This live efficiency is a journey into the next world, balancing in inbetween the different phases of life and death.” As is evidenced in his mind-expanding Fact mix, which saw the artist using a hybrid live set up, enabling him to layer rhythms, atmosphere and noise style on the fly, Spekki Webu’s method to live efficiency enables him the liberty to delve muchdeeper into the Mirror Zone, to coax out alluring groove and vertigo-inducing depth. “Going live enables me to take complete control of the audience,” he broadens. “I can tell my story down to excellence and equate every information, taking individuals along on this reflective journey. I have constantly been a eager listener of ambient, speculative electronicdevices, sound, and progressive music. Signal Transmutations is a spiritual method on these types of music, it truly feels like I am goinginto a next action within my profession as an artist.” This restored focus on the more mystical corners of his sonic vocabulary serves as the motivation for Matti Vilho’s visual action, as he highlights its intoxicating mix of technicality and spirituality. “The music of Spekki Webu is so much linedup with my taste that it wa