yvat [ro]
yvat lives in Bucharest, Romania managing his own sound design
company , Media Sound Design, there.
As a professional sound designer, yvat implied himself in
sampling industry and collaborated with Power FX, from Sweden
and Ueberschall Sample Service GmbH, from Germany. At the
present, he is one of Power Fx producers and his works can
be found on company’s web site www.powerfx.com.
yvat’s first release “Concert for Violin and Analog
Orchestra” has been produced by Experimental Seafood
Records, from Birmingham, UK. The album received positive
reviews and parts of it were played during John Peel’s
Show and on Mixing It show broadcasted by BBC Radio 3.
A series of another 3 albums followed on the Analog Orchestra
cycle, being released under the same label: “Analog
Orchestra”, “yvat—live” and “fill
ins”. Together with Justin Wiggan from “dotb”
and “geography of nowhere” a new project ‘”obotii
nu se pot ruga’” was found and four different
releases appeared under this name: “camera comuna”,
“light aversion”, “weird white feathers
fall all across the country’’—produced by
the same label, Experimental Seafood Records—and “the
20-th century fake book”—produced by UAVTAPE U.K.
, respectively. One of the tracks from “Camera Comuna”,
namely “flori crescand, mere muscate” represented
Experimental Seafood Records on the “supersonic Treats
From the City of Birmingham”, released by Capsule as
an overview of their participation at SONAR festival-Barcelona,
2004.
Other three projects have been released under “SubliminalTapeClub”
from Belgium— “Geophone”, “Amusia”
and “Blue Cones”. These are the result of a track
change in yvat’s creative approach, by embracing more
electronic tendencies.
A multimedia project combining yvat’s characteristic
sound and row videos made by Romanian art designers Alexe
Popescu and Paul Dersidan resulted in a series of DVD-s released
by “La Strada Music” under the title “yvat&cut
raw videos” and “folium”, respectively.
A different approach, adding melodic hues to the former geometrical
sound concluded to a new release—Cyma—under Cactus
Island Recordings, U.K. Same label included one of yvat’s
songs on a compilation—Brittle Behaviour.
Another yvat album appeared in 2006 is Oar, produced by Minor
Label, from Germany, an art project combining yvat’s
music with animation films (frame by frame). The product has
a powerful visual impact by using unconventional materials
and packaging techniques. At the same label recently appeared
a compilation including one of yvat’s tracks.
Blending together Martine Viard’s astonishing voice
from George Aperghis’s “Récitations”
(1978) and yvat’s electronic textures, PHONEMA, one
of the latest yvat’s projects, creates a powerful acoustic
impact. The album has been produced by La Strada Music”
and is the first yvat project released on Romanian market.
In the fall of 2006, ±g6pd records from Israel produced
Chroma, an album presenting a new approach, much compliant
with technical and mechanical sound, complex textures emerging
from modern electronic constructions.
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