3Ddancer, the ensemble formed by Australian Rachel Lyn, Reykjavik-born artist Bjarg aka Volruptus and Berlin-based artist Alex the Fairy, released an album titled "New exciting Toys," a 42-track live extravaganza spanning nearly four hours of their improvised performances. With their individual origins in modular music, improvisation and electronic dance music, they became 3Ddancers, developing truly powerful combinations of hard rhythm styles. They found each other musically and personally in a very organic way giving 3Ddancer’s experience and musicality a solid ground. Rachel Lyn, already known in Berlin as the mother of the 'Modular Gang', Volruptus, who brings in explosive soundscapes with releases on bbbbbb records and trip records, and Alex the Fairy, a Berlin-based experimental artist with a focus on electronic and concrete methods.

"Embrace some chaos and unpredictability" is what Bjarg calls it, and that's what it looks like at first when you check out their Boiler Room at Funkhaus Berlin 2018.

But then it's not that simple, after all these are improvisations between three different characters, each with their own sound. The fact that the album is a live recorded improvised performance makes it difficult to remember the pieces, and yet so exciting to archive them on an album. Because what is not improvised is rehearsed. I argue that improvisation has an important quality, where music becomes a language on a deeper level, replacing words for communication, and must be learned just like speech.

I ask, "How did you find your own style?" and Bjarg replies, "By fucking up so much."

Owning your own creativity to stumble over a note and let yourself fall into the creative flow doesn't require words, but the confidence to fail, make mistakes, and move on until you are in tune and can navigate organically.

As digital and technical as their setup may look from the outside, when I talk to Rachel, Alex and Bjarg about the inner workings, we go back to the origins of music making, where methodology and emotionality mix within people, only to emerge in the form of creation. "It's an intersection between two very different fields: one is the very technical, mathematical and pure idea of layering ratios, the interplay of sequences of numbers and relationships between them, etc., and the other is the emotional, aesthetic, subjective side, completely non-technical and indefinable." Now, to find one's own style between two disciplines, one must allow oneself to make mistakes and "control the uncontrolled.“ says Alex.