DATURA 1.0 is the sound work of Matt Cisler.In the 1980’s Matt was a founding member of the Minneapolis underground noise bands The Maggots and Duck Kicking Vulture He gained a reputation at the fringes of the Minneapolis Art Punk scene for his extreme muscular/minimal guitar style utilizing high volume walls of layered distortion and feedback. From there he went on to form the alcohol fueled trickster industrial band Cancer Bunny. As DATURA 1.0, Matt was once a member of the internet electronic music collective TAPEGERM (www.tapegerm.com) and is a frequent contributor to the experimental/dark ambient netlabel darkwinter.com. As Datura 1.0 his work has seen a slow evolution from epic low frequency dark ambient soundscapes conceived entirely in the digital realm, to a focus on live performance, circuit bent instruments and video art.Datura 1.0 uses electric guitars and custom built circuit-modified toys and toy keyboards as well as Laptop and desktop computers to create and destroy sound.“I am interested in lucid dreaming, shamanism and ecstatic practices of all kinds for the same reasons I am interested in Music. These are processes to realize a meeting with the mystery which drives consciousness.
If we close our eyes and drift, sounds can take us to places. I am interested in examining the places and emotions that can be created by sounds.â€Datura 1.0 perfoms live by improvising from pre-arranged structural formulae in real time using his strange toy instruments and de-tuned electric guitars processed through the computer.a live performance can run the gamut from brutal noise assaults to sublime ambience.
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