David August^IT

With almost fifteen years of experience, composer and producer David August continues a deep creative exploration that has taken him from the club to the orchestra and from solo creation to collaboration and interdiscipline.

The warm sound of his early releases, close to house and ambient techno, but also to jazz and more classic and organic sounds, catapulted him to global acclaim, making him a household name on dance floors and at festivals such as Sónar, Primavera or Montreux Jazz between 2015 and 2020. Looking ahead to the new decade, David August's creative expansion has been absolute, both at the head of his 99CHANTS label, where he has published artists such as Bunita Marcus✝, Leena Platonos, Yu Su and Giulio Aldinucci, as well as a producer. VĪS, his most recent album and the result of a five-year process, contains a fascinating balance between experimentation, narrative and emotion.

VĪS is Latin for energy, strength. From there, David imagines alternating narratives between the past and utopian futures, between metaphysics and nature, creating the space in which the producer unleashes a surprising sonic palette that reflects his classical training, his experimental drive and his sensitivity to transmute sounds into stories of deep emotional impact. As part of the long development of VĪS, David collaborated with artists from other disciplines, such as Hiba Baddou, with whom he developed the iconography and the imaginary alphabet used on the album, and the collective Egozen, who developed the digital and interactive counterpart.

For Edition 20, David August will develop a performance commissioned by MUTEK MX, in which he will connect the sounds and ethos of VĪS with the history and energy of the location where he will perform. This transdisciplinary intervention will have special collaborators who we will announce very soon.