V3STA is the experimental music project of the Athenian artist Alexandra Koumantaki.
Alexandra is the founder and artist director of the curatorial collective Hyperlink Athens, she is also a member of OMIO project, an art team focused on large scale installations. Her personal practice consists of light installations and sculptures placed in various landscapes.
On her music project V3STA she produces an array of ambient soundscapes that at times resembles OST film music scores of Sci-Fi movies, that never existed before. The body of her sound is based on digital sampling synthesizers and a free compositional approach. Her main inspirations come from retro-futuristic Japanese animation to cyberpunk dystopias and from ambient bliss to ambient hell.
For her guest mix at HKCK invited by M I R A 新伝統, she makes a selection of her favourite ritual ambient, experimental and noise tracks that span from the late 80s up to early 00s.
Tracklist
Coph Nia – That Which Remains (2000)
Gustaf Hildebrand – Starscape (2004)
Herbst9 – Buried Under Time And Sand (2005)
Inade – Aldebaran (1996)
Black Mountain Transmitter – Black Goat Of The Woods (2009) SIGILLUM S – Bardo Thos-Grol (1987) Predominance – Lord Of Putrefaction (1997)
Coil Zos Kia – Transparent (1997)
Archon Satani – Ende (1997)
Skullflower – Form Destroyer (1989)
非常階段 蔵六の奇病 (1982)
Incapacitants – Ministry Of Foolishness (1995)