Maria Bertel

Whether in duo with saxophonist Johs Lund, in solo or with the band Selvhenter, Maria Bertel has been pushing the trombone in its physical limits while uncovering new territories for the instrument. Playing her horn through a stack of amps and developing distinctive extended techniques, she delivers ecstatic walls of textures redefining the trombone for the 21st century.

ENGLAND'S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS

ENGLAND'S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS [a.k.a ecolagbohrac2021] is a multimedia [installation, live A/V , quantum research, fashion, crypto & ai] powerhouse, conceptually focusing on mythic themes/folklore that populate the archetypal strata of the modern technological psyche, meta hypermedia hell and our understanding of reality.

Musically in the style of of draconic mediaeval EDM, crystal swampcore, deep-fried Digital Middle Age hyperblackmetalpop, magick Lamborghini ride-core, delysidMIDI trance chord-pack dance tunes for shaking stars, sampling of prayers from alternate worlds, sp3xtral matrix-grim3, postnuclear Barbican skatepark Splice pack mash-up dancefloor music, 3D glitter pandemonium .gif flower garden ambient and folk music of the other syde, their 2023 performances are an audio/visual compendium composed of a hallucinated ‘remix-culture’ [spaces of shared co-creation beyond the boundaries of one’s present time or location > memergence of doom / a total annihilation and reconstruction of reality via cut-ups], hypermedia clairvoyance, speculative cyntery, multiplying reproductions of reality that actually doesn't exist and crystalline euphoria of South London funfair rides across it’s bogs and mires.

They are SHAPE alumni, have performed at venues, clubs and festivals such as FOLD, IKLECTIK, TodaysArt and Sonar Festival. Their previous LP, THE ONLY WAY WE KNOW TO HAVE FUN [self-released, 2021], was highly praised by the likes of The Quietus, XLR8R, The Wire, Electronic Sound, Crack Magazine, FACT, Resonance FM, MTV, BBC. Their next album EUPHORIA will be released on the London based mixed-reality biome and art platform Most Dismal Swamp in the spring of 2023.