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Ihan is an electronic duo of two design students from Toulouse, France. Having started from an instrumental background, today they explore the abstract 'plates-formes' of sound. Their first album ever fits perfectly in the electronic imperium of Mille Plateaux. Like SND or Bretschneider, Ihan works with all the new soundfiles and glitches of digital music, but they use it in a very special lighthearted but also cool way. Digital music or sound design still takes place not only on the level of symbolisation and signification, asiginificant material, non-coded forms of expression and elements play a role in the production of the digital as well. In the combination of music and composition, things have to be considered, circumstances which concern the artist but also exceed him. A process of production is initiated in which sound and composition, selection and production in the context of digital synthesis go together. The world of Iota is built on the coexistence of electroacoustic research gains ('techniques de montage', microscopic study of sounds) and the rational pulsation of minimal techno. Dealing with software sets free potential and impulses for something new. Ihan makes the artificial implications of glitch music audible with their 11 titles. It is singular electronic music, pared down, thin, cold and strong at once. Flows of intensity, fluids, continuums and conjunctions of effects, fine segmentation, microperceptions- and always there are colors, sounds, noises, all perfectly programmed in a way, that you have to expect the unexpected.
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