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Mutation 2

The scales consist of pitches chosen from 21-tet and 34-tet tunings. When played at loud enough level, one can move through the room and experience the vibrations of the standing waves and nodes with one’s head and body. From turning the head to the sides, left-right the sound changes dramatically. Moving slightly forward or backward, one can step into a ‘hotspot’ of pulsing beats. One more step and the effect is completely gone, one only hears the two tones. At a loud volume full otoacoustic emission happens on some of the clusters.

The process of selecting frequencies is a combination of mathematical experimentation and using my ears to select a handful of frequencies for each track. Within this notion, I come closest to being African: by creating my own unique tunings.

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from Alternate African Reality – Electronic, electroacoustic and experimental music from Africa and the diaspora, released January 29, 2020
Cobi van Tonder (South Africa)

Projects: Otoplasma; Telepathic Being

Cobi van Tonder is a South African practice-led researcher, sound artist and composer based in Berlin. Her experimental works explore expanded ways of listening and the reduction of phenomena in order to expose human sensuality. Her works exist as drone music with unique microtonal tuning systems, nature field recordings, algorithmic composition, multi-channel spatial audio and inter-media projects.

www.otoplasma.com
soundcloud.com/otoplasma
telepathicbeing.bandcamp.com
chien.pien@gmail.com

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Syrphe is a platform mostly but not exclusively focused onto experimental, electronic, noise music from Asia and Africa.
Records are published, lectures and sometimes concerts are given, monthly radio shows, news about underground artist from Africa and Asia and our projects are being given too.
Textolux, our sublabel published two vinyls of the electro, minimal wave project Tetra plok.
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