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ON MAXIMALISM

"... the collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event."
---Iannis Xenakis, Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition

Lately, all this hype about minimalism has gotten to be such a bore. Let's talk about maximalism. Iannis Xenakis' bird swarms and hail storms alongside Dave Lombardo's blast beats and double kicks... Right now, in this moment, I want to make sounds from these kind of ingredients, as live as possible, and not to justify anything with cheap intellectualization. Only to be overwhelmed by raw energy and unfathomable complexity. Nothing more, nothing less.

BIOGRAPHY

Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has played live experimental sound as Macumbista or Derek Holzer--as well as taught workshops in Pure Data and electronics--across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand. He has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR, Mandorla, Frozen Elephants Music and Gruenrekorder labels.

PERFORMANCE + WORKSHOP VIDEOS

cuT 31[RGB]-TONEWHEELS filmed by Eyes_For_Ears from macumbista on Vimeo.
Derek Holzer Live @ Die Remise, Berlin 1 Mar 2009 from macumbista on Vimeo.
Neanderthal Electronics workshop, Tartu Estonia from macumbista on Vimeo.

LIVE PHOTOS

MORE INFO

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