Biography
Strand could refer to Strand from Belgium, Strand from Detroit, Michigan, USA or the electronic spanish artist living in Belgium.
Strand from Belgium
With Strand, Bert Dockx (Flying Horseman, Dans Dans) ventures into the Dutch language. All alone with an acoustic guitar he plays pure songs, undone from all frills. Impressionistic, poetic music in which light and darkness struggle with each other; in which the silence faces the heaviest storms.
Strand from Detroit
Strand is Brian Bonds, Kech and Brian Boyer. They're known for making funky, yet melodic Detroit techno, house and other forms of electronic music. They're also known for actually playing parts (mistakes and all) when performing live.
Strand from Spain
Miguel Gil Tertre is a musician and visual artist who has released some recordings as Strand, ocasionally with images in labels as City Centre Offices, Foehn, Plataforma-ltw or Toi thich nhac, withexcellent reviews in the international scene (de-bug, elected as one of the 20 best Spanish electronic records of all the time in Dance de Lux).
As Strand nice music made with digital and risky tools is searched. Music is the result of manipulation of sounds played with traditional instruments in software platforms or language programming. The work deals with the capacity of software to arise emotions. Same as audio manipulation, Strand works with real images manipulated with Jitter living a visual answer to music.
He has played in festivals such as Sonar (2 times 1999 and 2003), Fib, Experimentaclub, Sonikas, Arsnicas, Decibelio and La Casa Encendida. In his recordings he has counted on some of the best Spanish digital musicians, and with artists that could be considered dealing with other parameters such as Programme, Pauline en la Playa, Soarse Spoken, 12twelve and Dead Capo.
Besides Strand there are 2 other projects: Nushu (audiovisual performances with poet Bruno Galindo) and Strand+Tres (with dj Tres devoted to experimental hiphop).
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