Evitceles - Endless Reach

Last year Bulgarian producer Etien Slavchev, who makes austere and searing electronic music as Evitceles, joined forces with the suggestively named Spite Cathedral for a split release on Mälmo’s experimental imprint Sound Matter. ‘Endless Reach’ is the doom-laden opener to that release, pairing dread bass and haunted strings to chilling effect. Slavchev enlisted the talents of programmer and artist Rim Mustafin to create a visual accompaniment, which he created using a generative adversarial network. By feeding images of buildings in Sofia, Berlin and Perm into the machine learning framework, Mustafin is able to combine these images in a lysergic process of merging that blurs the line between art and science. “‘Endless Reach’ is a trip down the memory lane via a neural recollection of memories,” explains Mustafin. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Refik Anadol and Kevin McGloughlin, Mustafin describes the work as “a walk in a latent space of the latest generative adversarial network model, orchestra