Disquiet Nights: Dopplereffekt

We are delighted to announce our final instalment of our Late-Night Series “Disquiet Nights” this May with pioneering electronic duo Dopplereffekt.

Working in collaboration with DeepSea Dweller Galway’s electro night, this will be a late night event to remember, with Dopplereffekt playing in Galway Arts Centre’s intimate and beautiful Nuns Island Theatre for one night only.

After three years of experimentation in isolation, Dopplereffekt emerged with ‘Neurotelepathy‘ in 2022, an oracular narrative of cerebral entanglement and advancement. The sleek mathematical models of 2017’s Cellular Automata have evolved into these synaptic interpretations, transferences and modifications, rejecting binary expectations to meditate on the possibilities and pitfalls of what’s to come.

Who controls the mind controls the body

Territory is monitored, traced and scanned, resulting in unexpected modulations. Underlying systems are questioned, competing mindsets animated and mutated: brain-to-brain, brain-to-machine and beyond. ‘Neurotelepathy‘ processes these transformative mental, psychological and transgenerational states both traumatic and triumphant.

With their second LP and fifth release in total on Leisure System, the duo of Rudolf Klorzeiger and To-Nhan have themselves achieved a near-telepathic capacity for collaborative thought and mechanical construction. They continue to use live appearances to present experimental trials of theoretical models, and that effort is heard in the sizzle and swing of the percussive highlights here, programmed with a serious depth and wriggle that reflect both an extension of and return to form. Considerations of the machine-human interface, neurological realities and physical probabilities dominate. But these tracks are economical and precise, glittering with emotional depth and cinematic effects. The album’s core, a three-act movement of symphonic uncertainty and revelation, marks one of the pair’s most evocative compositions in a career full of them.

Image Credit: Dopplereffekt Album Cover – Maria Mendes

Disquiet Nights is curated by Megs Morley supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media through the Late Night Events Scheme. This event has been devised in collaboration with DeepSea Dweller Galway’s electro night and produced by Black Gate Galway.