Variatonen (from Echoes, 11.25.2023)

About the Event Echoes: repetitions, reverberations, repercussions. To mirror back, to return, to resound. Featuring Trobol Kontrol (Jon Romero), Joee Mejias, and Variatonen (AJ Domingo) Nov 25, 2023 1F Projects | Manila, Philippines Artists Variatonen: a wall of aural dreams with hints of noise and degradation of sound. A melancholic but hopeful evocation. Trobol Kontrol always relies on practicing unplanned, producing accidental music. Frequently reinforced by circuit-bent transistor radios, an Audio Producer Console, zero input method, several devices and gadgets, he delivers speculative beats, glitch, and noises that compromise the upside of rhythm and melody trying to knock down a form that is abnorm. Joee Meijas is an electronic music act from the Philippines presenting the work of Joee Mejias, a musician and multi-media artist, and her collaborators. Joee Mejias music combines field recordings, traditional and found instruments, electronic beats and voice forming songs that exist in inner memories, dream altered states, fragments of a real or imagined journey.