The main obsessions of Rudra Vena are recording, putting on tape, every little sounds of his environment. Rudra Vena’s primary intention, in 2001, was to translate human pulses into music: in early works, sounds were generated with digital synthesizers loaded and melted with human body sounds like heartbeat, breath. The result was a rising collage of pulsating noises constructed by biorhythms, which can be described as electronica, experimental music, industrial, ambient: every track was a candy surprise for ears. Between 2001 and 2004, Rudra Vena released tracks selected on reputed labels from France and United States. Thanks to supporters mainly in Japan but also East Europe and United States, Industrial & Rhythmic Noise DJ’s from Tokyo, Berlin and Los Angeles started to playlist tracks in their sets.
His first full-length album, “Blast Proof Head”, was released in 2005 on a Mexican label thanks to Los Angeles and Tijuana supporters. “Blast Proof Head” was powernoise music in terms of sound and structure: hypnotic percussion and hard industrial beats melted with obscure noises. Harsh and distorted, cold and mechanical, could describe the nature of sounds used. After this extreme first release and some catastrophic & chaotic live sets, Rudra Vena disappeared and decided not to perform live in industrial scene for a while. Concerning personal life of Rudra Vena, “Blast Proof Head” was a terrible experience. During recovery time, Rudra Vena spent time collecting natural sounds, found sounds, field recordings, ambient drones, while travelling and collaborating with underground performers in East Europe and South East Asia.
Between 2006 and 2008, Rudra Vena was invited to focus on contemporary art and fashion, and developed contacts from early supporters to these new fields of activity: art, design and fashion. While recording hours of ghostly melodies and spoken words for his own personal collection, he spent time travelling between Europe & United States, attending art events, fashion events, as a weird socialite, travelling from underground areas to mainstream, mixing both influences.
In 2009, Rudra Vena launched the rudra-vena.com experience, first as a testimony of his approach and then to spread the word about his obsessions concerning recording experience, video archive, generative music and human/machine interface. His music is now sound art/experimental music; he acts rather as a media performer/socialite than a musician: not in the usual sense of abstract or avant-garde research, but as a naive and intuitive practice always taking its lead from the accidental act, full of surprises along the way.
Rudra Vena lives and works in Paris, FRANCE.
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/// SOLO RELEASES ///
Rudra Vena-Textures & Manigances [White Label-2001]
Rudra Vena-Blast Proof Head [Diskus Fonográfika-2006]
Rudra Vena-All These Goes To Prove EP [Picomedia-2007/2008]
Rudra Vena-WI.LD [Picomedia-2009]
/// COMPILATIONS APPEARENCES ///
V/A-Like Music to their Ears [Mechanoise Labs-2002]
V/A-QFG a compilation [Parametric-2003]
V/A-Fuck [Hive Records-2004]
V/A-axc_labs [Axess Code-2004]
V/A-Rhythms For Decay [Infekted-2006]
V/A-A Mere Invention Of The Idle Mind [Mechanismz-2006]
V/A-Bunker 54 [Mechanismz-2007]
/// SPLIT RELEASE AND COLLABORATION ///
Industriepalast VS Rudra Vena [Infekted & White Label-2004]
Telepherique VS Rudra Vena-North [Picomedia-2005]
