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Szkieve
Szkieve at Lokananta Studios, Indonesia, December 2014Szkieve at Lokananta Studios, Indonesia, December 2014
Background information
Also known as Dimitri della Faille, Montagnn, Foe[1]
Origin Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres Experimental, Electroacoustic, Noise music
Years active 1997 (1997)–present
Labels HushushAnt-ZenAd NoiseamRape Art ProductionsAntena
Website szkieve.org

Musical artist

Szkieve is the stage name of Dimitri della Faille (born in Belgium). Szkieve is a pioneering ambient musician[2] and new media artist. He has been performing electronic experimental and noise music since 1997.[3] In 2017, he was co-awarded the prestigious Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica in digital musics and sound art.[4]

Szkieve has half a dozen releases, on vinyl and CD, on various record labels from North America and Europe such as Hushush, Ad Noiseam and Ant-Zen. More recently the seminal label from Ecuador, Rape Art Productions has released a full-length CD by Szkieve and Antena, a netlabel from Brazil has released a live show recorded at Plano B in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro.[1]

His music consist of "minimalist percussions" with "diluted glitches" being "delicately mixed".[5] It has been described as being "rich and deep, frozen melodies break through tinny clicks and gloomy buzzes"[6] containing "drones, whirs and familiar yet hypnotic textures".[7] It has been said that in his releases, "sharp, shrill electronic tones and analog synthesizer miasma cut through the sounds of slowly chiming bells".[8]

He performs live with computer software, various child toys, found objects, contact microphones, electromagnetic microphones (telephone pick-ups) and personal digital assistants. Szkieve has presented his work in about twenty countries of Europe, North and South America, and Asia. He played at digital arts and electronic music festivals such as Electric Fields, Elektra, Mois Multi, MUTEK, MUTEK.cl, Send + Receive, WSK Festival and ZuiDianZi Festival.[9]

Szkieve is part of the Popcore collective.[10] He has collaborated on stage or recorded with artists such as Ammo, Ned Bouhalassa, Andrew Duke, Cedrik Fermont, Imminent, Industria Masoquista, John Sellekaers, martiensgohome, The Observatory, Silk Saw, Wukir Suryadi, Torturing Nurse, Vromb and Yoyooyoy. Szkieve also collaborated with visual artists and film artists such as Zev Asher, Gene Kogan, Alex McKenzie, Mark Nugent and TIND.[9]

Szkieve is also active in the New media art scene.[11] In 2003, he participated in the project Clicks'n'Cars which saw musicians performing with car frames "attached to the ceiling and become loudspeakers by sending amplified sound".[12][13] He has presented sound art projects such as his Miniatures Express, a project involving model railways, in various festivals.[14][15] With Montréal visual artist TIND, he presented an audio-visual performance entitled "Lucifer" at various festivals in 2011–2012. In reviews, the performance has been described as "audacious, hypnotizing, alienating, leaving out of breath".[16]

Other work in the arts

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Della Faille founded the Hushush independent record label in 1998.[17] For several years, he maintained the website and mailing list for the influential Belgian electronic body music band, Front 242.[18][19] He was also webmaster for prominent electronic bands such as Dead Voices on Air, Not Breathing and The Tear Garden.[20]

Della Faille sits on the artistic committee of the ACREQ (Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec - The Association for the Creation and Research of Electroacoustic of Quebec).[21] He holds a PhD in Sociology and is a professor in international development at the Université du Québec en Outaouais.[11] And he has published scientific work on music and arts.[22] In 2016, with experimental musician Cedrik Fermont, he co-wrote "Not Your World Music" a book on noise music in Southeast Asia.[23][24][25]

Collaborations and split releases

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  1. ^ a b "Szkieve". Discogs.
  2. ^ "Amplify.ph | WSK 2014: The Festival of the Recently Possible on November 7-9!". Archived from the original on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  3. ^ "About". Tumblr. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Winners 2017 Prix Ars Electronica". Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.{{[cite web](/wiki/Template:Cite%5Fweb "Template:Cite web")}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Igloo Magazine :: Szkieve :: Ekranoplanes (Ant-Zen, CD3)". 8 April 2005.
  7. ^ "szkieve". szkieve.hushush.com. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  8. ^ "Brainwashed - Szkieve, "Ekranoplanes"". Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  9. ^ a b "Szkieve | past events". Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  10. ^ "szkieve". szkieve.hushush.com. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  11. ^ a b "Auto-biography". 23 April 2014.
  12. ^ "Clicks 'n' Cars | Foton". Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  13. ^ "À venir / Previews".
  14. ^ "Szkieve".
  15. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Szkieve - Miniatures express. YouTube.
  16. ^ "Photos: Festival Elektra: Le Québec à l'honneur". 4 May 2012.
  17. ^ "hushush | stash (1998-2009)". stash.hushush.com. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  18. ^ "Newsarchive 2000". Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  19. ^ "Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos". Archived from the original on 9 February 2015.
  20. ^ "WTM > Articles > Hushush". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  21. ^ "ACREQ.COM". acreq.com. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  22. ^ Della Faille, Dimitri (2005). "Espaces de solidarités, de divergences et de conflits dans la musique montréalaise émergente". Volume! (4 : 2): 61–73. doi:10.4000/volume.1359.
  23. ^ "Digging the Asian and African undergrounds with C-drík Kirdec - CDM Create Digital Music". CDM Create Digital Music. 24 August 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  24. ^ "HIS Voice: C-Drík: Kdepak ta vaše world music". www.hisvoice.cz. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  25. ^ "Nouvelle publication pour le professeur della faille". uqo.ca. Retrieved 7 October 2016.