The concert series Graveyard Shift is curated by Daniel Fontana of Bad Bonn and Mathis Neuhaus.
The debut album "Sent From My Telephone", which Voice Actor released last October on the Belgian label Stroom, is four and a half hours long and consists of 110 songs. It's an almost alarming amount of music, and anyone who gets into the work won't find their way out in a hurry. The ambitious project was originally conceived as a radio broadcast, and the pieces range from 25-second voice messages to eight-minute ambient excursions. The anchor remains the voice, which leads through crashing noise, fractured beats, hysterical loops and delirious textures. Through "Sent From My Telephone," we can exist for a while in Voice Actor's world, which is a counterproposal to the algorithm-driven, bite-sized, streamlined playlist culture of Spotify and co. The rest of the world decides to chop everything up into TikTok-ready bites, Voice Actor has done the opposite and given us a plea for the long haul.
