Szkieve is the stage name of Dimitri della Faille (born in

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). Szkieve is a pioneering

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ian and new media artist. He has been performing

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and

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since 1997. In 2017, he was co-awarded the prestigious Golden Nica

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in digital musics and sound art.

Music

Szkieve has half a dozen releases, on vinyl and CD, on various record labels from North America and Europe such as Hushush,

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and Ant-Zen. More recently the seminal label from

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, ''Rape Art Productions'' has released a full-length CD by Szkieve and ''Antena'', a

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from

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has released a live show recorded at Plano B in

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. His music consist of "minimalist percussions" with "diluted glitches" being "delicately mixed". It has been described as being "rich and deep, frozen melodies break through tinny clicks and gloomy buzzes" containing "drones, whirs and familiar yet hypnotic textures". It has been said that in his releases, "sharp, shrill electronic tones and analog synthesizer miasma cut through the sounds of slowly chiming bells". He performs live with computer software, various child toys, found objects,

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s, electromagnetic microphones ( telephone pick-ups) and

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s. Szkieve has presented his work in about twenty countries of Europe, North and South America, and Asia. He played at

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and electronic music festivals such as Electric Fields, Elektra, Mois Multi, MUTEK, MUTEK.cl, Send + Receive, WSK Festival and ZuiDianZi Festival.

Collaborations

Szkieve is part of the ''Popcore collective''. He has collaborated on stage or recorded with artists such as Ammo,

Ned Bouhalassa Ned Bouhalassa (born 25 August 1962 in Le Mans, France) is a composer of film scores, television scores, and electroacoustic music. Bouhalassa is a Canadian citizen, and has been living in Montreal since 1967. In 1993, he began composing tele ...

, Andrew Duke,

Cedrik Fermont Cedrik Fermont (also known as C-drík Fermont or Kirdec) is a vegan artist, academically trained musician, DJ, singer, composer and drummer. He is a former student of electro-acoustic composer Annette Vande Gorne ( Royal Conservatory of Mons, B ...

, Imminent, Industria Masoquista, John Sellekaers, martiensgohome, The Observatory, Silk Saw, Wukir Suryadi, Torturing Nurse,

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and Yoyooyoy. Szkieve also collaborated with visual artists and film artists such as

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, Gene Kogan, Alex McKenzie, Mark Nugent and TIND.

New media arts

Szkieve is also active in the

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scene. In 2003, he participated in the project ''Clicks'n'Cars'' which saw musicians performing with car frames "attached to the ceiling and become loudspeakers by sending amplified sound". He has presented sound art projects such as his ''Miniatures Express'', a project involving

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, in various festivals. With Montréal visual artist TIND, he presented an audio-visual performance entitled "Lucifer" at various festivals in 2011–2012. In reviews, the performance has been described as "audacious, hypnotizing, alienating, leaving out of breath".

Other work in the arts

Della Faille founded the Hushush

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in 1998. For several years, he maintained the website and mailing list for the influential Belgian

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band, Front 242. He was also webmaster for prominent electronic bands such as

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, Not Breathing and

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. Della Faille sits on the artistic committee of the ACREQ (''Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec'' - The Association for the Creation and Research of Electroacoustic of Quebec). He holds a PhD in

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and is a

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at the

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. And he has published scientific work on music and arts. In 2016, with experimental musician

, he co-wrote "Not Your World Music" a

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Awards

* 2017 : "Golden Nica" by

co-awarded with Cedrik Fermont for their research on noise music in Southeast Asia.

Discography

Solo releases

*''Des Germes de Quelque Chose'', CD, 2000 *''Des Rythmes de Passage'', CD, 2003 *''Palimpseste'', MP3, 2004 *''Ekranoplanes'', CDEP, 2005 *''Ao Vivo No Plano B 21 Julho'', MP3, 2006 *''Chants et Danses Folkloriques des Hauts Plateaux'', CD, 2008

Collaborations and split releases

*''Perturbacée / Terra Amata'', 12", 2002 (split with Ammo) *''Le Pavillon des Oiseaux / Le Monorail'', 7", 2003 (collaboration with

) *''Ostinato 29'', CDr, 2008 (split with Nathan McNinch &

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)

References

External links

Szkieve
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Szkieve Living people Musicians from Montreal Canadian electronic musicians Belgian electronic musicians Noise musicians Year of birth missing (living people)