Deison / Cranioclast
Cold Star: A Noise Inc.

Cold Star: A Noise Inc. – Deison / Cranioclast: The Sound of the End, the Noise of the Beginning

The cold star has long since extinguished, yet its echo survives in an impossible recording, a ghost wave that creeps into the interstices of silence. Cold Star: A Noise Inc., the collaboration between Deison and Cranioclast, is the residual sound of a world in ruins, a signal transmitted from an extinct civilization, collected and fragmented into eleven distortions of reality.

The result of a virtual exchange lasting from 2019 to 2024, this work is not just a musical piece, but a posthumous recomposition experiment. The sounds are dissected, recombined, deconstructed in a series of enigmatic circular encyclopedias, fragments of lost knowledge reshaped through electronic chaos. The use of anagrams for the titles is not a linguistic game, but a code, a psychic cryptography that hides a secret order in disintegration.

The Cranioclast enigma: between anonymity and sound deconstruction

Little to nothing is known about the members of Cranioclast. There are no personal details, nor biographical data: only an enigmatic aura that has surrounded them since their beginnings. Each of their releases is a fragment of an indecipherable puzzle, each name a linguistic enigma. Their very pseudonym is a continuous mutation: Kranioklast at first, then Cranioclast, and finally Sankt Klario and Soltan Karik, anagrams that chase each other in a game of lexical and conceptual mirrors.

This identity opacity is not a simple elusive strategy, but an act of artistic personality sabotage: the music of Cranioclast is an autonomous organism, a voice that does not need faces. In Cold Star: A Noise Inc. this philosophy reaches its peak: the tracks seem generated by an arcane intelligence, detached from any human attribute.

The sound architecture of collapse

Deison and Cranioclast build their soundscape as an archive of digital debris. Noise becomes structure, distortion transforms into a language, glitch is the heartbeat of a machine that doesn't know it's dead.

Here sound does not accompany: it imposes itself, fractures time and reconfigures it into obsessive cycles, like a loop that dissolves before completing. The soundscapes alternate between sidereal vastness and industrial claustrophobia, between synthetic hisses and feedback flows that resonate like warning sirens of an abandoned city. There is no comfort, no linear narrative, but only total immersion in a hostile and magnetic environment.

A transmission ritual among ruins

The influence of Michael of Kallabris and the reading of Sankt Traumartinszug by Soltan Karik are the final seal on this sound excursion. The voice dissolves into a long wave, a synthetic requiem that accompanies the dissolution of every known reference. The sound art here goes beyond experimentation: it is an act of sound archaeology, an evocation of lost signals, a communication between entities that perhaps no longer exist.

The collaboration between Deison and Cranioclast marks a new chapter in contemporary sound art. Cold Star: A Noise Inc. is an implosion of sound and memory, the crackling of a civilization dissolving in the ether's interferences.

There is no light in this star, only the noise that remains.