Beat Keller

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A duet of electronic improvisation that seeks to replace intention with randomness and the search for a strident, resonant silence; where error and interference become a form of language, of protest and an element of dialogue that opens space for humour and irony.
Shrieking guitars, barking dogs, meowing cats, bursting frequencies, Pena Negra propose us an intense and desperate journey full of abrupt and abysmal landscapes, full of melancholy, anxiety, irony and an overflowing and bucolic madness.
Pena Negra combines sound universes that strangely communicate by resorting to a whole series of strategies and sound resources that spontaneously and sometimes eloquently flood us and submerge us in a universe of complex and hilarious languages.
An anti-romantic cartoon, full of adventures and accidents that are repeated again and again with different results.

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Dueto de improvisación electrónica que busca la sustitución de la intención por el azar y la búsqueda de un silencio estridente, resonante; en donde el error y la interferencia se convierten en una forma de lenguaje, de protesta y un elemento de dialogo que abre espacio para el humor y la ironía. Buscando el punto máximo de tensión en donde el silencio en vecindad con el estruendo, producen instantes brillantes e intensos, en donde lo indecible como tal, queda infinitamente dicho.

JUANJOSÉ RIVAS - Hacked turntables and electronics
BEAT KELLER - feedbacker electric guitar, pedals

Recorded on February 2024 by Luis Ortega Chino in Mexico City.
Mixed and mastered by Beat Keller at Lagerstudios in Winterthur, Switzerland
Artwork and design by Juanjosé Rivas