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 noise music 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 Disques Hushush Inc. (also known as Disques Hushush or more simply as Hushush) is an independent record label created by Dimitri della Faille (aka recording artist Szkieve) in Montreal (Quebec), Canada in 1998. Hushush mainly releases experimental ...

, Ad Noiseam 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

netlabel A netlabel (also online label, web label, digi label, MP3 label or download label) is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio formats (such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or WAV) over the Internet. While similar to tradi ...

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 tel ...

, Andrew Duke, Cedrik Fermont, Imminent, Industria Masoquista, John Sellekaers, martiensgohome, The Observatory, Silk Saw, Wukir Suryadi, Torturing Nurse, Vromb and Yoyooyoy. Szkieve also collaborated with visual artists and film artists such as Zev Asher, Gene Kogan, Alex McKenzie, Mark Nugent and TIND.

New media arts

Szkieve is also active in the

New media art New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D prin ...

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 model railways, 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

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

electronic body music Electronic body music (acronymized to EBM) is a genre of electronic music that combines elements of industrial music and synth-punk with elements of disco and dance music. It developed in the early 1980s in Western Europe as an outgrowth of bot ...

band,

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. He was also webmaster for prominent electronic bands such as Dead Voices on Air, Not Breathing and

The Tear Garden The Tear Garden is a psychedelic/ experimental/ electronic band, formed by Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in 1985 after Key served as a sound engineer on tour in Canada for Ka-Spel. An EP, ''The Tear G ...

. 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

Université du Québec en Outaouais The Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) is a constituent university of the Université du Québec system located in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. As of September 2010, combined enrolment at UQO's Gatineau and Saint-Jérôme campuses was 6,017, ...

. And he has published scientific work on music and arts. In 2016, with experimental musician Cedrik Fermont, he co-wrote "Not Your World Music" a

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on noise music in

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

References

External links

Szkieve
Official website
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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)