Epilogue by SBVRSV

'Epilogue' is the concluding passage in SBVRSV’s six year documentation of translocal experimental art and music scenes. Formatted as a compilation release and digital zine, it is divided into 2 parts, each consisting of 9 original music productions contributed by a selection of artists who were involved with SBVRSV or influenced its curatorial vision in some capacity. While several of the artists are Canadian, many acts from a diverse range of backgrounds and international regions were also included with the intention of explicating connections between scenes at the micro and macro level.

Aesthetically, the album is multi-faceted, encompassing a broad spectrum of experimental music styles. The only prompt conveyed to the artists was a series of descriptive, stylistic phrases: “power-ambient, industrial-poetry, hybrid-metal, blackened-club, cathartic-noise, harsh-trap and mystical doom.” It was left up to the artists’ discretion as to how they wanted to interpret these descriptors.

Part 1 (tracks 1-9) is oriented around tracks that tend towards a cerebral ambience and dance/club music-adjacent rhythmic structures.

Part 2 (tracks 10 -18) is oriented around tracks that tend towards noise or dissonance and encapsulate a murky, foreboding atmosphere.

In many ways, SBVRSV has come to represent a point of convergence, a node within the greater ecosystem of digitally-mediated arts communities. At this point in time, it feels that the project has reached the culmination of its natural life-cycle and while it will not be continuing in its previous capacities, the hope is that it can act as a sort of archive, or snapshot, of globalized experimental art and music culture during the late 2010’s. Perhaps others can find inspiration in its model and build upon it further, carrying the torch of independent culture forward into the future. Certainly, the scene that SBVRSV helped cultivate will continue to evolve in exciting new directions and formations that we anticipate with great optimism. The close of this chapter does not signify the death of a scene but rather, its ever-expanding emergence and growth.

SBVRSV is an Independent editorial platform documenting the point of intersection between experimental music and new media arts.

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