Broken Machines

Music created with the help of noise synthesizers, modified cassette players, field recordings, and neural networks. This could be a workshop by barkal x wiiu wiiu on the Do It Yourself practical independence course by Cyber-Femin-Club. DIY instruments, or broken machines, allow inventors, musicians, and artists to migrate between technologies of the past and the future, creating spaces of joint experience and telling stories of internal freedom and independence. 

Cover: Vera Barkalova, Obscurity, 2022

Bio

barkal x wiiu wiiu is an audio-visual tandem of Vera Barkalova and Maxim Anpilogov whose roots are in the boundless heart of eastern Siberia. Interweaving field recordings, synthetic sounds, cold, explosive vocals, and noise chords from analogue synthesizers, the artists combine various techniques and media, making their own video controllers and other musical devices and using them in their performative practices.