INDIAS INDIOS

Benjamin Altermatt's Indias Indios project is a “world fiction” tale. During the last ten years Altermatt has build an specific imaginary, revealing the delicate boundaries in between worldmusic and avantgarde, in between indians crafts and contemporary art. That far a constantly moving form, a colorfull wave, where the epic and the ethnic found a common place giving shape to a range of new born hipnotic frequencies. Indias Indios is open to collaborate with people's alter-vodoo capacities, until nowdays achieves collaborations with Francesco Cavaliere , Felicity Mangan, Andre Castro and Michael Northam, to name a few......................................................... ....................................In these digital times, analog has become oddly synonymous with getting back to nature. Taking such a notion to heart, Benjamin Altermatt collects abandoned or mutilated cassette tapes as one might assemble kindling for a fire by a teepee. He then splices these and merges them into hypnotic, trance- inducing loops that travel through distortion and layer on top of one another.Purporting to “combine contemporary art with Indian crafts”, Altermatt’s sound project Indias Indios brings a strangely spiritual dimension to what might otherwise be classified as noise. Along with spotty evocations of chirping birds and whistling wind, deep in the wisps of feedback one detects an ever so subtle melody..