Szkieve

Szkieve

Szkieve at Lokananta Studios, Indonesia, December 2014
Background information
Also known as Dimitri della Faille, Montagnn, Foe[1]
Origin Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres Experimental, Electroacoustic, Noise music
Years active 1997–present
Labels Hushush, Ant-Zen, Ad Noiseam, Rape Art Productions, Antena
Website szkieve.org

Szkieve is the stage name of Dimitri della Faille (born in Belgium). Szkieve is a pioneering ambient musician.[2] He has been performing electronic experimental and noise music since 1997.[3]

Szkieve has half a dozen releases, on vinyl and CD, on various record labels from North America and Europe such as Hushush, Ad Noiseam and Ant-Zen. More recently the seminal label from Ecuador, Rape Art Productions has released a full length CD by Szkieve and Antena, a netlabel from Brazil has released a live show recorded at Plano B in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro.[4]

His music consist of "minimalist percussions" with "diluted glitches" being "delicately mixed".[5] It has been described as being "rich and deep, frozen melodies break through tinny clicks and gloomy buzzes"[6] containing "drones, whirs and familiar yet hypnotic textures".[7] It has been said that in his releases, "sharp, shrill electronic tones and analog synthesizer miasma cut through the sounds of slowly chiming bells".[8]

He performs live with computer software, various child toys, found objects, contact microphones, electromagnetic microphones (telephone pick-ups) and personal digital assistants. Szkieve has presented his work in about twenty countries of Europe, North and South America, and Asia. He played at digital arts and electronic music festivals such as Electric Fields, Elektra, Mois Multi, MUTEK, MUTEK.cl, Send + Receive, WSK Festival and ZuiDianZi Festival.[9]

Collaborations

Szkieve is part of the Popcore collective.[10] He has collaborated on stage or recorded with artists such as Ammo, Ned Bouhalassa, Andrew Duke, C-drik Fermont, Imminent, Industria Masoquista, John Sellekaers, martiensgohome, The Observatory, Silk Saw, Wukir Suryadi, Torturing Nurse, Vromb and Yoyooyoy. Szkieve also collaborated with visual artists and film artists such as Zev Asher, Gene Kogan, Alex McKenzie, Mark Nugent and TIND.[11]

New media arts

Szkieve is also active in the New media art scene.[12] In 2003, he participated in the project Clicks'n'Cars which saw musicians performing with car frames "attached to the ceiling and become loudspeakers by sending amplified sound".[13][14] He has presented sound art projects such as his Miniatures Express, a project involving model railways, in various festivals.[15][16] With Montréal visual artist TIND, he presented an audio-visual performance entitled "Lucifer" at various festivals in 2011-2012. In reviews, the performance has been described as "audacious, hypnotizing, alienating, leaving out of breath".[17]

Other work in the arts

Della Faille founded the Hushush independent record label in 1998.[18] For several years, he maintained the website and mailing list for the influential Belgian electronic body music band, Front 242.[19][20] He was also webmaster for prominent electronic bands such as Dead Voices on Air, Not Breathing and The Tear Garden.[21]

Della Faille sits on the artistic committee of the ACREQ (Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec - The Association for the Creation and Research of Electroacoustic of Quebec).[22] He holds a PhD in Sociology and is a professor in international development at the Université du Québec en Outaouais.[23] And he has published scientific work on music and arts.[24]

Trivia

Alongside with power noise bands such as Whitehouse, the name of Szkieve was included in a early 2000s internet meme and a subsequent internet quiz about industrial music entitled The 5 Stages of Industrial Elitism.[25][26] Szkieve and power noise bands were said to be music suited for the fan of industrial music at the fourth stage of industrial elitism where the fan becomes and intellectual and a photographer, reads obscure philosophical texts such as Nietzsche and Witkiewicz and attends art school.[27][28]

Discography

Solo releases

Collaborations and split releases

References

  1. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/artist/25359-Szkieve
  2. ↑ http://amplify.ph/news/index/wsk-2014-the-festival-of-the-recently-possible-on-november-7-9
  3. ↑ http://szkieve.org/about
  4. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/artist/25359-Szkieve
  5. ↑ http://www.premonition.org/premor.php3?lien=chro/chro.php3X1Xcid=241X3X241&ta=10
  6. ↑ http://igloomag.com/reviews/szkieve-ekranoplanes-ant-zen-cd3
  7. ↑ http://szkieve.hushush.com/recorded_reviews_hsh11.html
  8. ↑ http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=572%3Aszkieve-qekranoplanesq&catid=13%3Aalbums-and-singles&Itemid=1
  9. ↑ http://szkieve.org/past-performances
  10. ↑ http://szkieve.hushush.com/projects_popcore.html
  11. ↑ http://szkieve.org/past-performances
  12. ↑ http://dimitri.sciences-sociales.info/informations/dimitri-della-faille-auto-biography/
  13. ↑ http://pages.foton.be/en/projects/clicksncars
  14. ↑ http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm9-3/Previews.htm
  15. ↑ http://szkieve.hushush.com/projects_miniatures_express.html
  16. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc2OY-2dU5A
  17. ↑ http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/04/festival-elektra_n_1477447.html
  18. ↑ http://stash.hushush.com/
  19. ↑ http://users.telenet.be/itec4all/update00.htm
  20. ↑ https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/rants242/info
  21. ↑ http://www.wtm-paris.com/art_hush.html
  22. ↑ http://acreq.com/
  23. ↑ http://dimitri.sciences-sociales.info/informations/dimitri-della-faille-auto-biography/
  24. ↑ http://volume.revues.org/1359
  25. ↑ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.gothic.francophone/dWbB8QYBky8/Z-pDl5I-ro8J
  26. ↑ http://www.angelfire.com/music6/industrial/quiz/quiz.html
  27. ↑ http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/the-5-stages-of-industrial-elitism.48975/
  28. ↑ http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.248109-A-problem-with-elitist-nerds?page=3#9176135

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