Dana Schechter is a Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, vocalist, and producer, hailing originally from
San Francisco, USA.
Monocube, who comes from Odessa, Ukraine and now is based in Berlin, explores the fields of electronic music
mostly using analog synths/instruments.
In their project, the two artists will create an audiovisual project; musically they will combine melodic, harmonic,
and textural patterns using modular synthesis and human voice, to be later merged with their original visual works.
This new collaboration was formed to explore the unity
which exists within the artists' respective sonic and visual fascinations, with a focus on cultivating the exact intersections where their two practices collide.
Regarding the work at EMS, the technical system of
modular synthesis becomes the ideal conduit for the sonic realization of rhythmic and harmonic patterns, and their echoes in the human body. An inspirational point of
reference for this idea comes from the concept of “The Evolutionary Biology of Musical Rhythm”, as found in
Charles Darwin’s "The Descent of Man", which posits a deeply rooted response mechanism in the human brain
and body to rhythmic sounds found within the body itself, such as the heartbeat, gait, or nonlinear oscillations of the brain's neural impulses.
Photo of Dana Schechter by Bart Verhelst
Photo of Monocube by Laurence Chaperon
