Broken Composers push the envelope on powerful, unique techno anthem “ReAct”
Broken Composers share a vivid, frantic and powerful techno anthem
Broken Composers, the pseudonym for the innovative duo Kirill Rave and Vitali Yu, are artists who expertly navigate the space between music and contemporary artistic experience. Since their 2017 debut at the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, they have cultivated a distinctive body of work that seamlessly integrates music, large-scale media installations, light and laser environments, video art, and performative theatre. The duo represent a unique beast, a collaboration of the visual and the audio.. A project that fiercely pushes the boundaries on what’s possible and refuses to fit within the standard “Techno” dogma. The new single “ReAct” continues in this vein, building emphatically with layers of acid and distorted vocals before climaxing at a frantic techno explosion.
HOW IT WAS MADE..
“We don’t use any fancy plugins or complicated synthesizers. Our process is fairly simple. One of us provides the voice and percussion, and the other transforms these sounds into track elements using Ableton Live — our main instrument. We mostly use standard functions: Warp, Pitch, extreme stretching and compression. If we use plugins, they are the most basic ones, like delay and chorus. But we push these functions to extreme values, not the ones the developers probably intended. So the foundation of our music is always something acoustic and physical, natural. That’s why our sound often contains a lot of rawness, roughness, a certain rough-hewn quality, jerkiness, and improvisation.” – Broken Composers
Broken Composers – Live AV performance, “PSR J1032−5804, a 10-meter multimedia sculpture made of a mass of spiky, digital-like glitches that exist not on a screen, but in reality. The shape, music, and graphics on the screens, twitching in sync with bass and melodies, are made from reworked radio signals from this extremely unusual astronomical object” – Broken Composers
Their unique approach blends architectural precision with a scientific sensibility, crafting an artistic language designed to transport audiences beyond ordinary perception into unfamiliar realms. Each piece is meticulously conceived as a “dramaturgy of perception,” structured by sound, rhythm, and evolving expectations that ultimately unravel. What begins as a performance often transforms into something entirely new, marked by rupture, disorientation, and metamorphosis.
With their forthcoming EP and the striking single “ReAct,” Broken Composers continue to push the boundaries of techno, IDM, and experimental genres, delivering a truly unique and potent sound characterized by acid techno layers, analogue synth improvisation, and exceptional production.
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