Multidisciplinary artist Freeka Tet takes on the approach of a computer pirate to create playful, destructive music and visual artworks.
Freeka Tet cannot decide whether it is a hacker, a magician or sales. This may be because most of his time spends all three of these roles. During his speech with reality, he emphasizes the importance of one of his own tattoos, apparently ridiculous, spider’s handwritten ‘ou ou oh et et’ expression. “If you turn it into English, it means: ‘or or or and and’, he explains. And This’? Are you everything or do you need to decide? ”
In addition to reading advertising and graphic design, it is a permanent feeling based on the formalizing years playing in various underground noise scenes in Bordeaux and Paris, a creative output. “Being on the noise scene, playing a punk mouth fight and making tattoos for people, I really confused the fact that I was doing my work in advertising. I really disappeared,” he says. “I had to make a decision, would I be a career in the field of advertising, would I be an experimental musician, or would I be a tattoo artist? I felt that I could not be.”
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To the present day, the free and Freeka Tette proved to be an extraordinary mistake. Multidisciplinary artist, designer, programmer and the artist has a foot in the commercial mainstream, together with Google, Childish Gambino and Margiela, the other side was tightly planted to experimental electronic underground properties, designed music provocation without only instrument or music software.
Using emergency technology, creative coding and a hacker’s approach to artistic production, it creates fun works that question and destroy contemporary attitudes towards cultural consumption. In its own words, the practice undertakes deep technical projects based on learning and research processes, while remaining unknowingly ”, it is not affected by any discipline or methodology. Rarely, the pause for breathing jumps around the new media view, original forms, new models and a appetite that is everywhere for really authentic self -expression modes. This power, which is boiled in a deep personal mantra, is now immortalized with ink. As explained: “I did this tattoo as follows: ‘No problem, friend. You don’t need to decide’”.
You can watch Freeka Tet’s unrest to the first music projects, a various and ambitious working group defined by a stubborn reluctance to be connected to the narrow boundaries of a single species. This has been proven by the artist’s long musical dissemination list, which includes cooperation with the Australian Noisecore artist company Fuck and Gazormass, the artist’s Surrr Grrr, Sgure, Sgur £, Maxi Bacon, Scott Sinclair. Jamiroquai, Marilyn Manson and the Korn, listening to the growing taste of the crowd was dictated: im I was in the south of France.
However, passive listening habits were soon broken with the discovery of Faith No Mike Patton’s lower metal fusion projects, Mr. Bungle and Fantômas. The dizzying anger of Patton’s sonic vocabulary was the spark that was not less than six octaves and would inspire him to make his own music in terms of species. Japanese vocalist Yamatsuka Eye and Houston Hip-Hop Architect DJ screw, all of the high, noisy and twisted love, all of which inform the early voice.
A admiration with computer music has become various experimental electronic projects, but it was with the first records that TET found a serious recognition. An early fan of the project was Stevo Pearce, the founder of Records, which contains the ‘Booyaka vs Jalla’ sgure runway in uncertain review. A little bit of the double album2008 update to 1981 cult classic Some albums This is the first viewers Depeche Mode and The The The Their. Another was James Kirby, who will continue to release SGURE’s 2007 album Anulus pexie V/VM test records lower label vukzid.
Orum I remember telling me about the idea of a guard in 2007, Freeka Tet says Freeka Tet. “I was doing all these maximum/msp things, I remember thinking that it was quite lazy! At that moment I didn’t understand his purpose.” In this early stage of his career, the most influential supporter of the project was Mary Anne Hobbs, who described the experience of listening to the traces of the BBC Radio 1 show in 2007 as “as you were pushed from the top of the Empire State Building”.
A unchanging tendency for complexity has fueled the artist’s ongoing experiments with Max/MSP, a visual programming language, which has become an important tool for an generation of experimental musician. “At first, the sound was literally for me, it wasn’t music,” he explains. “It was something that should be physically. There was already some kind of terrorism or vandalism in the sound. When I started using Max/MSP, I started to take care of visuals more. When I started to make visuals with vandalism”.
During this time, the artist began to take more seriously to hacking, which is something he attributed to his love for the software. “You must be a hacker with Max, or at least you feel like hacking something. This anarchic and random attitude towards music production began to affect the way Freeka Tet was reluctant to approach the sector in which he found a part of him.
Hacking was an important part of the strategy of introducing the world to Ierson Rybod, a mysterious and decisive anonymous producer, where he still worked closely. This included some online reservation agency cheats, which allows Rybod’s first shows to provide a planned promotional stunt that is skillfully and unjustly.
“Rybod also appeared. Syro He was released 10 years after Aphex Twin, disappeared and returned. T Obviously Warp had a large marketing budget. I used Csploit, a hacking tool to look at how easy it would be to hacking the website of the label, and the plan was the launch and picture of Rybod’s album. ”Ultimately, although he was still with the idea, he decided against the stunt for fear of legal reflections:“ Aphex is just a good thing to joke the twin. ”
With its own acceptance, Freeka Tet is less interested in hacking mechanics than the mentality behind it. “I am a hacker, but I really didn’t dedicate it to why. Youtube videos are torn from the site and the existing digital art practice as an important effect on the shit-visual-worker collage and unbalanced environment manipulation is destroyed by a hyperactive video editing application, such as youtube poops, such as proto-maming formats.
This is evident 7H3 P1C7U23 0F F4C371M3It is a sacrifice of a live flowing concept that sees a live streaming performance concept to kidnap Freeka Tet with friends using a face mapping program and real -time productive sound design software to carry out a crazy noise performance using your face. He shattered the scorching soil arrangements of the giant claws and EProm hidden by dead pixels and blurred movement with a crazy twitching and stretching series. At one point, it moves away from the screen, reveals a 3D -welded model sitting with a cross -legged model from the laptop from the laptop, and it appears crazy from an endless repetitive virtual space. Eventually, it joins with an animatronic pink robot mouth for cybernetic karaoke climate session.
For Freeka Tet, magic, hack and art are fundamentally compatible, making its creative practice into a wider task to develop its creative practice for something complex enough to meet the impossible demands of the economy of attention. To explain this, another famous wizard throws: “David Blaine like a hacker. In a way. Hacking your body. You can be a magician, a hacker, a visual artist or an artist who works with technology, they all come from the same way, this is about understanding and breaking the code.”
Just like one of the frequency tet, the artist Justice Yeldham. Yeldham, who is famous for his extraordinary bloody performances that creates an extraordinary bloody performances by licking, breaking and biting a cut glass compartment of several contact microphones, Yeldham brings a similar destructive energy to bring Spectle to the stage. “To do something different, you should go to a place where too many people cannot follow you. And there are very few people who are good enough to do so. Either because they are a really good artist or crazy.” Regardless of the environment, Freeka Tet through technical mastery can constantly pull the carpet under the audience during their performance, a creative control that he understands the basis of hacking.
Words: Henry Bruce-Jones
This feature was initially released in the F/W 2020 which can actually be purchased. HEagain.
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