The Wire contributor Rory Gibb talks to the founding members of Quantum Natives, a globally dispersed alliance of musicians and artists.
“”HC SVNT DRACONES” flashes a warning as the Quantum Natives website launches. Moments later you’re gazing down on a bruised far future world, pockmarked by industrial structures and symbols of insects, masked faces and half-remembered video game and corporate motifs. As you navigate its Google Earth-style interface, clicking these glyphs opens audiovisual rabbit holes to unexpected treasures: 3D net art galleries populated by abstract digital collages, hallucinatory films seething with chromatic information, playable adventure games, free album downloads of entrancing music. This surreal map-world is the portal to the hydraheaded work of London born label and collective Quantum Natives, who since 2013 have brought electronic music into freeflowing dialogue with literature, visual art, film and 3D animation. Each new release adds new hyperlinks, visually mirroring their expanding world of sound, from the psychedelic samplecraft and rave noise of co-founders Awe IX (Ornine/Yearning Kru) and James Stringer (Brood Ma) into adventures in digital noise and idiosyncratic electronics from a global collective of artists.”
Quantum Natives presents their new commissioned work Nexus (II) at Rewire 2018. Watch the video for predecessor ‘Grace Nexus’ below and learn more about their Rewire 2018 performance at Quantum Natives.
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