To crumble towards a centre, rather than to the ground. Elischa Heller effortlessly combines electronic music with the gestures of performance art. Delicate, futuristic and emotive melodies, often accompanied by auto-tuned vocals, intersect with high-pitched rapid beats, abundant noise and drones. At times, this evokes a sense of cool internet aesthetics, yet simultaneously feels remarkably organic, even symbiotic in nature. The incense helps. He finds comfort in the vision of a post-time world, where beings, ideas and intuitions prosper in radical simultanities.
It’s field recordings and it’s pop, and in between an arrangement of questions. c) There is so much destruction in understanding, b) To be emotional is the most intellectual thing we can do and a) To feel helpless for a reason. Stop forcing, and never ever ever ever count anything again.
Elischa Heller is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
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