Perfect Immortal Machine
Audiovisual artist Valentina Berthelon (Recent Arts) strikes out solo with "Perfect Immortal Machine", a sickly set of robotic sci-fi electronics and brittle electro grooves.
Musically best known for her work with NSI's Tobias Freund as Recent Arts, Chilean A/V expert Berthelon is an established artist who's exhibited across the world. On "Perfect Immortal Machine" she taps into well-established electro themes, experimenting with dislocated voices and robotic sounds to create a cyberpunk atmosphere that buoys her crisp rhythms and HD DSP FX. Her background in A/V art allows Berthelon to fabricate a world that feels bright and tangible; computerized sounds glitch and chatter but it's never chaotic, there's an order to her process that veers closer to Raster Noton's precise minimalism than the coarse, jerky (and often corny) futurism of IDM.
On tracks like 'Cyberspace', Berthelon's sonic space sounds completely weightless, with barely present beats that practically hang in mid-air, and ruffled, distorted voices that sound as if they're being beamed in from a far off galaxy. She allows placid harmonies to pierce the atmosphere, but not at the expense of her chromium-plated mood. 'Perfect Immortal Machine' is an even more solid example, almost electro but stripped of all its club potential, leaving emotionless robotic voices and cycling kick-snare patterns that sidestep into echoing vortexes. Soundtrack music, for sure.
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Audiovisual artist Valentina Berthelon (Recent Arts) strikes out solo with "Perfect Immortal Machine", a sickly set of robotic sci-fi electronics and brittle electro grooves.
Musically best known for her work with NSI's Tobias Freund as Recent Arts, Chilean A/V expert Berthelon is an established artist who's exhibited across the world. On "Perfect Immortal Machine" she taps into well-established electro themes, experimenting with dislocated voices and robotic sounds to create a cyberpunk atmosphere that buoys her crisp rhythms and HD DSP FX. Her background in A/V art allows Berthelon to fabricate a world that feels bright and tangible; computerized sounds glitch and chatter but it's never chaotic, there's an order to her process that veers closer to Raster Noton's precise minimalism than the coarse, jerky (and often corny) futurism of IDM.
On tracks like 'Cyberspace', Berthelon's sonic space sounds completely weightless, with barely present beats that practically hang in mid-air, and ruffled, distorted voices that sound as if they're being beamed in from a far off galaxy. She allows placid harmonies to pierce the atmosphere, but not at the expense of her chromium-plated mood. 'Perfect Immortal Machine' is an even more solid example, almost electro but stripped of all its club potential, leaving emotionless robotic voices and cycling kick-snare patterns that sidestep into echoing vortexes. Soundtrack music, for sure.
Audiovisual artist Valentina Berthelon (Recent Arts) strikes out solo with "Perfect Immortal Machine", a sickly set of robotic sci-fi electronics and brittle electro grooves.
Musically best known for her work with NSI's Tobias Freund as Recent Arts, Chilean A/V expert Berthelon is an established artist who's exhibited across the world. On "Perfect Immortal Machine" she taps into well-established electro themes, experimenting with dislocated voices and robotic sounds to create a cyberpunk atmosphere that buoys her crisp rhythms and HD DSP FX. Her background in A/V art allows Berthelon to fabricate a world that feels bright and tangible; computerized sounds glitch and chatter but it's never chaotic, there's an order to her process that veers closer to Raster Noton's precise minimalism than the coarse, jerky (and often corny) futurism of IDM.
On tracks like 'Cyberspace', Berthelon's sonic space sounds completely weightless, with barely present beats that practically hang in mid-air, and ruffled, distorted voices that sound as if they're being beamed in from a far off galaxy. She allows placid harmonies to pierce the atmosphere, but not at the expense of her chromium-plated mood. 'Perfect Immortal Machine' is an even more solid example, almost electro but stripped of all its club potential, leaving emotionless robotic voices and cycling kick-snare patterns that sidestep into echoing vortexes. Soundtrack music, for sure.
Audiovisual artist Valentina Berthelon (Recent Arts) strikes out solo with "Perfect Immortal Machine", a sickly set of robotic sci-fi electronics and brittle electro grooves.
Musically best known for her work with NSI's Tobias Freund as Recent Arts, Chilean A/V expert Berthelon is an established artist who's exhibited across the world. On "Perfect Immortal Machine" she taps into well-established electro themes, experimenting with dislocated voices and robotic sounds to create a cyberpunk atmosphere that buoys her crisp rhythms and HD DSP FX. Her background in A/V art allows Berthelon to fabricate a world that feels bright and tangible; computerized sounds glitch and chatter but it's never chaotic, there's an order to her process that veers closer to Raster Noton's precise minimalism than the coarse, jerky (and often corny) futurism of IDM.
On tracks like 'Cyberspace', Berthelon's sonic space sounds completely weightless, with barely present beats that practically hang in mid-air, and ruffled, distorted voices that sound as if they're being beamed in from a far off galaxy. She allows placid harmonies to pierce the atmosphere, but not at the expense of her chromium-plated mood. 'Perfect Immortal Machine' is an even more solid example, almost electro but stripped of all its club potential, leaving emotionless robotic voices and cycling kick-snare patterns that sidestep into echoing vortexes. Soundtrack music, for sure.