Donatell is the alter ego of Los Angeles-based artist and producer Daniel Memmi.
As Donatell, Memmi explores the discarded sounds, forgotten techniques, and dead-tech gestures of pop’s past, recombining them into uncanny future possibilities.
…If Italo Calvino had dreamed up Water for his Invisible Cities, he might have imagined it as a place with more screens than people, a city populated solely by screens: screens talking only to one other, faltering unison voices falling out of sync, a daisy chain of recent pasts and slightly less recent pasts, a time loop with a lazy, elliptical flow. A city of screens, and thus also a city of tropes — signs and symbols that have lost all interest in pointing to anything beyond…
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Itta and Marqido once performed under the name 10. However, the duo changed their name to 
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Japanese band 
A sonic essay on memory, 
Roy Montgomery and Martha Skye Murphy extend their thing on 
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