CYCHOTIC: LIVE AV
with Max Dahlhaus
warning: strobing and flashing lights
Duration: 30 - 50 mins / HD to 4K / Kinect

CYCHOTIC (2.0) is a new Live AV performance by Max Dahlhaus and Defasten. Deconstructing our understanding of futurism, cyberpunk, science-fiction, and post-industrial landscapes, its existence challenges and reshapes our sense of immersion through highly dynamic audio-reactive set pieces traversing layers of meta-reality, in real-time digital 3D. 

Merging elements of club and experimental with cinematic abstraction, the music weaves visceral sonic textures that bursts to reform into complex digital visions, calling towards an unstable new virtual era, like a synthetic digital exoskeleton in rapid evolution, holding together a decaying Anthropocene.

At its core, CYCHOTIC frames a perspective on the cultural clash of our present-day over-reliance/addiction with digital hypermodernity, materializing (un)known signifiers that bridge our insight into the technological, traditional, mythological, all at the intersection of Eastern and Western civilization.

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Max Dahlhaus

Berlin-based music producer Max Dahlhaus intricately weaves emotive narratives with abstract contrasts in his music, transcending boundaries between cinematic, industrial, and experimental realms. The music is massive, yet clear, and his mixing technique is a masterclass in artistry.

Performances, collaborations, releases include: with Born in Flamez during Amplify Berlin, an audio-visual live set during CTM 2020, "No Hiraeth" EP with WRACK (2021) on Absurd TRAX. His album CYCHOTIC (Opal Tapes 2023) includes tracks with Grinderteeth, Miziguruka, Lamb, and Joana Ivanova. Max's latest releases include the single "Ninsei Lane" (2023) on Over My Body and the EP "A Cracked System" (incl. Liliane Chlela, NAJIB, T5UMUT5UMU & xl.iks Remixes) (2022) on U N I Z O N E.

On his 2023 Asia tour, Max performed his CYCHOTIC Live AV in renowned clubs such as OIL Shenzhen, AXIS Chengdu, All Shanghai, Loopy Hangzhou, Groundless Factory in Beijing, 20Alpha in Hong Kong.