Funny Place, by Artjom

Funny Place

by Artjom

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1.	World 02:45	buy track
2.	We Don't Need This (feat. Park Ranger) 03:29	buy track
3.	Rainy Rainy 02:40	buy track
4.	Funny Place 03:03	buy track
5.	Turntable Blues 03:31	buy track

about

Plot Toy is proud to present its first installment 'Funny Place' by Vienna based musician Artjom.

Artjom Astrov (b.1989) is a musician based in Vienna. His eclectic composition style incorporates both produced and found sound, digital processing and songwriting. Astrov’s use of voice (spoken word, rapping) can be characterised by a sense of alienated lyricism. As a sound designer for various contemporary performance productions, Astrov has developed a distinctively minimalistic approach that relies on spatial and conceptual properties of sound.

As Benzokai, rin la and, most recently, simply as Artjom, he has released several EPs for record labels such as Quantum Natives, Baba Vanga, Trash Can Dance and Serious Serious, an imprint he himself initiated. Founded in 2016 and featuring anything from fashion garments to recordings of street music, Serious Serious documents and showcases a variety of artistic practices, contributing to a collective vision of a music underground.

Astrov’s ongoing collaboration with the choreographer Ruslan
Stepanov has led to staging of several philosophical performances
– humorous and serious, these pieces reflect on contingency,
absurdity and metaphysics while at the same time addressing the
gravity of life in a post-Soviet environment.

Since 2020, together with artists Michaela Kisling and Till Megerle, Artjom Astrov is part of the project “Guiding Light”. It started as a series of videos and later developed into a band practice that can be defined as “deep hanging out” that is neither predetermined nor random. In their performances, the band plays with extremes and contradictions such as “realness” and “artificiality”, both as visual and performative tools in order to continually question the essence of their work.