Camille Altay
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Biografía
- Camille Altay is a chimeric artist who’s work takes many shapes.CAMILLE ALTAY (They/Them) is a visual artist, composer and DJ who lives and works in Climax, New York. Camille spent formative years as a drum and bass dj in the house-heavy rave scene in Chicago in the late 90s. A contrarian in nature, Camille has been known to play genre-bending dj sets with influences ranging from Cumbia to Ghettotech. Camille’s live sets lean toward the spiraling, runaway arpeggiations of synth music in its initial stages of identity crisis - whether to emulate real instruments, or subversively carve a path towards unnamed and evolving shapes of space and identity. Camille has a recent release on the Bunker’s long-form sub label Going In, is a founding member of of the group Birds of Prey (Kathexis Records, Mysteries of the Deep), and collaborates with LA artist Israel Vines under the moniker CAIV, with the most recent release Dwellers EP out on Tresor Records. - Camille’s work is engaged in a multi-disciplinary question of material limits in space and time, driven by a need to expand the conditions of possibility of each medium. It operates at the nexus of the tactile and the transcendental, informed by the evolution of identity and culture as shared burdens. By applying pressure to the constraints of genre, these conversations find themselves at the limits of language and categorization. Through an inquiry into categorization itself, Altay reshapes feelings of instability and otherness by bending the rules of music, materials, and their methods, re-orienting them into 'deeply meaningful transgressions'. “I'm interested in failure as a method - I tend to push things close to their point of failure, not with any ill intent, but because I can't help it and I want to know what might happen. Just to see how things resist, what stresses them out, and what they'd prefer to be doing. Sometimes you think you know how a situation will break down, but more often it's a door into really surprising behavior - things doing or saying something you never thought would be logical or possible.” Camille's works reference the elasticity of technology, and a certain playfulness that results from new technological forms running into old. A particular fascination with the identity crisis of early synthesizers – whether they were meant to be real instruments, or merely act like them – creates a fluid view of linearity, sequence, and replication. Altay’s process is conversational and sculptural, and nothing is off limits. Rooms are made up not only of materials in space and time, but relationships and orientations. Music is not only frequency and vibration, but a complex psychoacoustic system shaped by others in it, by gravity, and memory. There is no outside of the system. Move one body, distort one space, use another hand, and the whole collaboration changes. words by Benoit Pioulard, 2024.̸CAIV - Dwellers EP [Tresor] Melanie Klein Bottle [Going In 024] Studies for a Bright Pattern Live SmhoakXII Deleuzions Diagonals I + II Appears on Israel Vines - Voices EP [Tresor 342] Birds of Prey [KTX 002] Birds of Prey - Oath Birds of Prey - Nocturne Birds of Prey - Entropy
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