pacification!
Our curated contribution during the Ars Electronica is a new performance by Wanda & Nova deViator (Maja Delak & Luka Prin?i?).
pacification!
Resistance is a move towards the transcendence of a dancefloor, especially of its potential of conscious and deliberate bodily resistance to the force of rationality. It uses a language of electronic rhythms, repetitive patterns of metalic melody, violent funk and carefuly crafted dynamics of suspense, peaks and minimalism. Away from the spectacle it reaches closer to sweaty bodies in darkness.
"The album 'Pacification' eludes all strict genre classification, though it is concretely rooted in the European, mainly British sound
tradition. It could be said that the album is driven by a remarkable attitude of self-confidence, an autonomy both at the level of the
content and at the level of the merit of its delivery. The most outstanding positive characteristic of Pacification is how it skilfully
traverses the boundaries between serious artistic and raving club discourse, without any of them losing its weight on account of the other." -- Pina Gabrijan, Radio Student, Ljubljana
The music sets the mood throughout, mostly it is pure dance music, rhythmically aggressive and perversely obscene, at times escapist cold, alienated, but always in harmony with the texts which round off the contrasting image of songs, making a sound-wise manifold whole. We are used to seeing contemporary electronic music finding itself trapped in formulas and it's not unusual to find on albums two or three properly done songs and ten others made only to repeat the recipe that succeeded. In contrast, Prin?i? and Delak imprint a special character to each of the twelve songs, what's more, with their immediate appeal, the songs stay in the memory already on the first hearing." -- Goran Kompoš, ODZVEN, sigic.si
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Wanda & Nova deViator (Maja Delak & Luka Prin?i?) are an
artistic/performative duo that works with variety of media
(performance, sound, video, physical computing, texts, situations) in
order to research and artistically reflect the state of contemporary
living. http://wndv.si
