LYBES DIMEM is a project by visual artist and musician Lukas Rehm. With a focus on digital sound-de¬sign, elaborate beat structures and the use of error, the music plays with cognitive phenomena and abstraction while maintaining an emotional refuge. LYBES DIMEM is presented in formats ranging from spatial sound experiences to sy¬nesthetic shows complementing the auditive layers with visualiza-tions of real-time data, computer graphics and moving image. Lukas Rehms installative art, and compo¬sitions have been internationally presented and awarded with multi¬ple emerging arts prices.
SYNCLEFT CHRONEM is the first album released by LYBES DIMEM in both digital and vinyl format and accompanied by a moving image artwork. The title reflects the pro¬jects interest in the potential of difference, cognitive frictions and exertion: sync = variability in the processing of auditive and visual signals, syncleft = the synaptic cleft, which is a crucial empty spa¬ce in biological neural networks, chronem = the chroneme as a the¬oretical unit to measure the time of an articulated sound. Mathemati¬cally clean sounds juxtapose pat¬terns and transitions familiar from the realm of organic acoustics. Multi-layered noise textures ex¬plore the simulated space. A tem¬porary continuity is provided by percussive and melodic elements, right until the next escalation, eventually awaiting a concluding resolution.
The visual language explores dif¬ferent phenomena and techniques of cognition inspired by the rhe¬torics of big science (computer graphics, discontinuity of materi¬al, pop cultural references). Both the moving image artwork and the graphic design of the release pay tribute to the multi-layered appro¬ach of the music. The design of the vinyl cover by studio BNAG.cc uses subtractive colour synthesis to interchange between abstract for¬mality and representationalism.
SYNCLEFT CHRONEM is the first release by LYBES DIMEM on SVS Records following a first encounter at the SVS residency at the 4D Spa¬tial Sound Institute in Budapest.