~ in collaboration with Grambacht ~
Maryia Kamarova and Daniel Dariel explore the audible analogies between physical materials and synthesized textures, navigating on the edge of tangible and virtual environments. In Umwelt, they stage an entanglement of digital and analog organisms, performed by motorized found objects and modular electronic patches, which sound alike whilst remaining perceptually distinct. Some of these organisms visibly crawl across the table, others only exist as vibrations, mediated through a set of speakers to which all are scaled. By entering in dialogue and mimicry, objects, codes, and signals generate a shared field of resonance, questioning the materiality of sound and the distinction of its sources.
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Daniel Dariel is a percussionist and electronic musician, born in Tokyo in 1991. He improvised with Seijiro Murayama, played with Giulio Erasmus in the duo Umarell & Zdaura and with Gábor Kovács in the duo Wash Club, among other bands and collaborations, and performs solo under the names Visage Pâle or Csocsó. Daniel is part of the Third Type Tapes label and a programmer in Les Ateliers Claus, an independent venue in Brussels.
Maryia Kamarova‘s practice is situated at the intersection of performing arts, scenography, sound and installation art. By misplacing and adjusting commonplace objects and technology, her works emphasize the creative potential of nonhuman worlds. She performed internationally in Europe and overseas at Archipel, Rewire, Reveil, Sonic Acts, Lisboa Soa and others. She is a co-founder of PYL collective and is a member of the Q-O2 art team in Brussels.