Herzbeat Hotel

Under the moniker Herzbeat Hotel, Jonathan Saldanha and Filipe Silva morph into the identities of Damien Yates and Anton van Ringe, two former theology students gone astray. Yates and van Ringe view themselves as microbes in a complex food chain, decomposing and releasing the energy contained in various sonic and symbolic sources; they are also deeply concerned by the use of memory and evocation in the transmutation of strata of meaning.

Herzbeat Hotel's musical practice employs so-called traditional instruments from various cultures, whose status as reservoirs of accumulated history is explored, but also real-time electronic processing and magnetic tape manipulation, in an analogy of various alchemical processes. 

Ultimately, Herzbeat Hotel invoke illusive cultures, whose traditional and religious music they supposedly reconstitute, in a process akin to argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges' catalogue of parallel civilizations and possible heresies.

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• Damien Yates – various instruments, cuts, electricity, tape manipulation

• Anton van Ringe – various instruments, tape manipulation