Dasha Rush (RU)

Musician, producer, and Russian sound artist based in Berlin, whose work explores the boundaries between experimental electronic music, abstract techno, sound art, and multimedia performance. Born in Moscow, she initially trained in the artistic and computer science fields but soon developed an interest in electronic music, cultivating a deep fascination with the interaction between technology, perception, and sound form. After spending time in France in the early 2000s, she moved to Berlin, which became her main operational hub and one of the most influential centers for her artistic research. Dasha Rush is best known for her techno productions released on labels such as Raster-Noton, Sonic Groove, Fullpanda (which she founded herself), where her approach to sound is always rigorous, cerebral, and sensory at the same time. However, her techno is just one of the many expressions of a broader musical philosophy that includes ambient, acousmatic music, sound installations, and performative works often presented in artistic and museum contexts. Her work is characterized by a constant tension between structure and disintegration, digital purity and emotional disorder, corporeality and abstraction. A distinctive element of her practice is her great attention to spatialization of sound, which becomes a fundamental compositional and perceptual component: her live performances are often designed as immersive experiences where sound surrounds and engages the audience in an almost tactile dimension. In many of her works, Rush explores the idea of dilated time, slow and deep listening, moving away from the functional rhetoric of club electronic music to instead delve into mental landscapes, liminal zones between sleep and consciousness, memory and abstraction. Alongside her solo activities, she has collaborated with visual artists, choreographers, dancers, filmmakers, and other electronic musicians, creating interdisciplinary projects where sound interacts with image, movement, and architectural space. She has been invited to perform at some of the most important festivals worldwide, such as Atonal, Mutek, CTM, Unsound, in addition to numerous artistic residencies and specific commissions. Dasha Rush embodies a type of contemporary artist who rejects simple categorization, choosing instead a personal path characterized by layering and deviations, formal rigor and imaginative impulse. Her music does not aim to be merely decorative or “interesting”: it seeks to challenge perceptual habits of the listener, restoring to sound the power to open parallel, intimate, fragile, and radical dimensions.