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In the fictional Star Trek universe, a tricorder is a handheld device used for scanning an area, interpreting and displaying data from scans to the user, and recording information to isolinear chips.
In the world wide web tricorder(.at) is an experimental weblog of personal and recreational research containing information and links covering all influences, interests and projects of the author – Experimental Music, Social & Political Movements, Glitch Aesthetics, Audio & Video Art, Music Production Technologies and similar subjects.
Goal of tricorder.at is to find & invent new futures by documenting, distributing, observing, connecting, scanning and reflecting informations, styles and attitude critically , using the hunter-gatherer lifestyle in relation to modern social movements & technologies. Impetus behind this weblog is to share and collate findings in a central repository and publish for the benefit of interested and communities.
About the Author:
scanning since 1974
Since the late 80ies s.diwan aka Diwanescu aka Sabotage Hybrid is researching in, and experimenting with short movies, photography, painting and object art, but mainly producing electronic freestyle music.
Being one of the harder to pin down acts on the experimental sample and electronic freestyle music landscape he fuses samples drawn from diverse sources all over the world with hip-hop and jazz compositional ideas – the bustling rhythms of breakbeat, the bent sonic mayhem of ambient and dub are mixed with computers -, sequencers -, keyboards – experiments.
Now residing in the south-spanish village ‘Alcaidesa‘ s.diwan a.ka. Diwanescu started up to produce music in late ’95 as an adjunct to his respective interests in funk and soul, jazz, hip-hop and experimental underground club styles like house, breakbeat, ambient, dub and downbeat.
In 1997, at the age of 22, his first recording was released. It was called “Befreiung” and was some of the most lovely electronic music work ever recorded and shows hard, dark, experimental style. As the nineties progressed, he recorded and released multiple songs, purely for his own pleasure – also collaborations between him and his friend Dedlef Kedrosch at the happy spacemas festival (turntables/synth project ’98) and the famous band project “trish” (rhythms of breakbeat, electro-pop-funk, vocals and conventional instruments ’98) were pushing back s.diwan’s sound clash boundaries.
The following months/years were spent searching and archiving source material for his follow-up, “Project Lift”, which utilized samples from excursions to rolling jungle, cool jazz, galloping basslines with complex trapset orchestration and shrill, screaming horns.
In 2001 s.diwan/diwanescu founded uterus.at, a platform, creative portal and open source ‘re:style’, ‘re:action’, “re:sound” network-project, short ‘digital style grill ™’. Also, tiefparterre.net, a collaboration of DJs, Producers, Graffiti & Tattoo artists was initiated with his assistence.
During following months and years Diwanescu started to play out live and as DJ at various festivals and locations in Austria and Spain.
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