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EPOCH COLLAPSE

Members: Dariusz Roberte

Epoch Collapse is a Dark Ambient, Experimental Electronic & Acousmatic sound art & audiovisual/multi-media project of Dariusz Roberte.

Genre: Dark Ambient, Cinematographic, Electronic, Acousmatic, Electroacoustic.

Some influences: György Ligeti, Roland Kayn, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Terry Riley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, The Mothers of Invention, Lustmord, Cyclobe, Mirror.

Influential genres: Dark Ambient, Musique Concrète, Avant-Garde, Electronic, Acousmatic, Minimalsim, Post-Minimalsim, Indian Ragas, Psychedelic, Industrial, Post-Punk, The Berlin School, Space Rock, No Wave.

Band Interests: Surrealism, Dadaism, Cosmology, Philosophical Science Fiction, Expanded Cinema.

In 2003 Epoch Collapse organised a screening of Yakov Protazanov's "Aelita: Queen of Mars" (1924). Epoch Collapse performed live to the silent film using tape collages. The live mixing and remixing of sounds and samples were performed via an original graphic score, whereby the sound material was controlled through multiple speakers. In 2004, the following year, one of Epoch Collapse works "Dark Ascension" was included on the Singing Bridges CD "Vibrations: Variations". During 2008-2010 Epoch Collapse experimented with voice samples - electro-voice poetry/electro-noise poetry. A number of works were composed, one was a collaborative work - the voice of a reader was sonically manipulated and filtered. This "noise-poem" was released through the Black Rider Press website.

Epoch Collapse is currently working on a massive music project: original piano compositions/improvisations with electronics, entitled 'Unprepared Piano'. When released, this would end up being a series of 20+ CDs.

Some Epoch Collapse CD/Website releases -

ELECTRONIC & ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC (2002) (Limited Edition) Independent release. Produced by Dariusz Roberte All works by Dariusz Roberte.

SINGING BRIDGES - Vibrations: Variations (2004) Compilation CD. Produced by Jodi Rose/Sonic ArtStar Includes one work by Dariusz Roberte - 'Dark Ascension'

SMOOTH SPACE (2009) Compilation sound art project. Produced by Vague Terrain/Microsound Includes one work by Dariusz Roberte (Epoch Collapse) - 'Return of Ulysses to the Fog of Death Island, Part 1'

STRIATED SPACE (2009) Compilation sound art project. Produced by Vague Terrain/Microsound Includes one work by Dariusz Roberte (Epoch Collapse) - 'Water Witches'

BLACK RIDER PRESS - website (2010) Electro-noise poem.

Websites & links for music and audio/visual works: [1] [2] [3]

Websites & links for visual works and writing: [4]