Monday, May 31, 2021
8:30pm CT
Streaming on YouTube
FREE
Sam and Melissa speak with Jorge Juan B. Wieneke (AKA similarobjects) about opening the Philipines 1st Minecraft night club + DJ Culture and organzing in the Philipines! W Special guest cohosts Ion 1 + Ion 2 of the Ion Pack.
Jorge Juan B. Wieneke (AKA similarobjects) is an electronic music educator and producer from Metro Manila, Philippines. Seeking to aurally express the junction of technology, video games, and art by utilizing the theoretical frameworks of polystylism, spirituality, and esoterics; Jorge reaches into the depths of the modern-day with older, almost forgotten cultural lenses. Creating balanced soundscapes that fluctuate between our day’s chaos and the distant, hypnotic cries of nature; similarobjects is a constant effort to unite the now with an imagined spiritual past.
He is one of the founders of BuwanBuwan Collective, an electronic artist community & record label focused on cultivating the Philippine beat maker scene and its intersections and is also a co-founder of Manila Community Radio, a PH-based decentralized community radio initiative made by the community for the community and one of the co-founders of Club Matryoshka, a Philippines-based but international virtual venue hosted in Minecraft established to enable a diverse and experimental set of artists to perform in a decolonized space that platforms and focuses on performers with non-white, LGBTQIA+, female, and neurodivergent majority lineups.
Jorge also teaches Electronic Music at his own electronic music school/mentorship program called Cosmic Sonic Arts, where he fosters a spiritual, meditative, and introspective approach to creating music.
The Ion Pack, New York City’s still-anonymous Instagram troll of the downtown film world........
Relevant Links -
https://soundcloud.com/similarobjects
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ion-pod/id1507673502