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Based on name alone, Backbreakerneckbrace already seem a worthy candidate for the effective execution of a grand finale. Based on their refined tendencies towards sensorial- liquefaction, Backbreakerneckbrace confirm their more than capable ability to bring ISSUE’s 5th annual Floating Points Festival to a dizzying, heaving-sigh-of-exhausted-satisfaction-inducing close. Utilizing the festival’s signature Stephan Moore-designed 15-channel Hemisphere speaker system, the group will present a number of new video animations and premiere a grid-based improvisation: Forcefields, Masks, Walls, Flow Patterns.

Comprised of the wife/husband duo of Dawn & Mike Haleta, Backbreakerneckbrace works in shades of throbbing static and electrical storm chaos. Spasmic shards of white noise erupt from pressure-cracks that line the walls of tunnels containing and channeling the seductive throb of beautifully sculpted drones and the crackling flames of tamed digital bonfires. Dawn constructs mesmerizing visual counterpoints to the aural overload, developing organically patterned images that alternately mirror, foreshadow, and comment on the movements of the sound – creating a symbiotic feedback-loop of influence and yielding a cohesive fusion of the optical and auditory senses.

Check the videos and audio below for a small-screen taste of the full-body experience that awaits on Friday. Also, for those unable to attend this week, Backbreakerneckbrace will appear at ISSUE in 2011 for a new world premiere as part of our Emerging Artists Commission series.

508Wall from backbreakerneckbrace on Vimeo.

Cycle412 from backbreakerneckbrace on Vimeo.