Eloine / Deforma - Flywheel

‘Flywheel’ is a new collaborative album by Puerto Rican industrial/ambient artist Jorge Castro (DEFORMA) and North American instrument inventor Bryan Day (ELOINE). The two previously worked together on 2000’s ‘Dawn Variations,’ a dense collection of layered, noisy electronics and an early release on Day’s label Public Eyesore. For this new release, Castro manipulated sounds from a collection of Day’s various electroacoustic instruments, including amplified piezoelectric sculptures, draggable instruments and modified exercise equipment, using his synth and electronics rig. Day later recorded additional parts at his studio, and the resulting mixes were then sent to Thomas Dimuzio (DUE PROCESS, DIMMER) for mastering. Bryan Day is a sound artist, instrument inventor and conceptual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components and amplified materials, he reimagines them as constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late 1990s, Day has built over a hundred sound devices ranging from amplified measuring tapes and hacked radio transceivers to electromechanical installations using magnets, hard drives and pendulums. He has performed and recorded with projects such as EUPHOTIC, SEEDED PLAIN and PAY DIRT, his duo with Victoria Shen (EVICSHEN). He has performed, taught workshops and built sound installations across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Hailing from San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, Jorge Castro was part of the experimental industrial duo CORNUCOPIA from 1998 until 2011, as well as a member of the international multi-media collective ORIGAMI REPUBLIKA. Besides the above-mentioned previous release with Bryan Day, Castro has also released several other albums on Public Eyesore, between solo work, CORNUCOPIA and a collab record with Carlos Giffoni (MONOTRACT, OLD BOMBS); he has also released music by his various projects on labels such as Bizarre Audio Arts, Self Abuse, Dada Drumming, Oxidation and Hospital Productions.