Lucid dreaming, Waking consiousness, Aleister Crowley, Carlos Casteneda, Martial arts, all the sounds I have ever heard, Herpetology, Surrealism, Carl Jung, Heironymous Bosch, Social Pressures, Insects, Disease, Death, Life, Shamanism, Technology, Money, Nightmares, Work, Spirits real and imagined, Freinds, Enemies, Sex, Violence, Circuit bending, alcohol, nicotine, Love, Hate, reverb (lots of reverb) Delay (lots of Delay) William Hope Hodgson, HP Lovecraft etc....................................................................
Sounds Like
"What came up in my imagination was of an abandoned factory, haunted by long-unused machinery"..................
"Evokes the Earth's interior, where giant toads, perched solemnly on even more monstrous fungi, oversee the peregrinations of silver humanoids in chambers lit by noxious green and purple mists"..................
"Undulating moans, hums, buzzes, and rumbles that evoke super-intelligent giant squids going about their squidly business in the eternal twilight of some undersea metropolis".............................
"Deep listening reveals layer upon layer of subtle and slowly morphing developments below the abrasive surfaces of these tracks".......................
DATURA 1.0 is the sound work of Matt Cisler.
In the 1980’s Matt was a founding member of the Minneapolis underground noise bands The Maggots and Duck Kicking Vulture He gained a reputation at the fringes of the Minneapolis Art Punk scene for his extreme muscular/minimal guitar style utilizing high volume walls of layered distortion and feedback. From there he went on to form the alcohol fueled trickster industrial band Cancer Bunny. As DATURA 1.0, Matt was once a member of the internet electronic music collective TAPEGERM (www.tapegerm.com) and is a frequent contributor to the experimental/dark ambient netlabel darkwinter.com. As Datura 1.0 his work has seen a slow evolution from epic low frequency dark ambient soundscapes conceived entirely in the digital realm, to a focus on live performance, circuit bent instruments and video art.
Datura 1.0 uses electric guitars and custom built circuit-modified toys and toy keyboards as well as Laptop and desktop computers to create and destroy sound.
“I am interested in lucid dreaming, shamanism and ecstatic practices of all kinds for the same reasons I am interested in Music. These are processes to realize a meeting with the mystery which drives consciousness.
If we close our eyes and drift, sounds can take us to places. I am interested in examining the places and emotions that can be created by sounds.”
Datura 1.0 perfoms live by improvising from pre-arranged structural formulae in real time using his strange toy instruments and de-tuned electric guitars processed through the computer.a live performance can run the gamut from brutal noise assaults to sublime ambience.
Just wanted to say thanks for being a friend! Have a great day! Come by and see us play at Eclipse Records Thursday July 16th at 7pm. Othr acts are Lollipop Factory, Company Inc. and Ribbons. Stop by our page for more info and a sample of some music!
Thanks so much for coming to the opening last Friday! It really meant loads. I'm going to try to come to your show this Friday, hopefully my car will be fixed by then. Take Care!
Hah! I like that comparison. Glad you liked it. Wish I could have seen the other sets there, but had to get to that cd release party before midnight. Did everyone else record their sets?
