[The User] :: The Symphony #1 for dot matrix printers - 1998 

i’m looking forward to the a/visions series this year at mutek!

The Symphony for dot matrix printers is a work which transforms obsolete office technology into an instrument for musical performance. The Symphony focuses the listener’s attention on a nearly forgotten technology: the dot matrix printer. Specifically, it employs the noises the printers make as the sole sound source for a musical composition. Leaving the constituent elements untouched, the process imposes a new order upon them, reorganizing the sounds along a musical structure.

[The User] ::: Coincidence Engine One: Universal People’s Republic Time - 2008

Installation for 1200 battery-powered alarm clocks, CNC cut Styrofoam structure. 

read more about [The User] on Mutek’s blog.

Music For Real Airports by The Black Dog

Music for Real Airports is a multimedia art project by musicians The Black Dog and interactive artists Human which is presented in art galleries. It is also a new album of music by the Black Dog. It is a response to the reality of occupying the semi-public space of an airport, and a contemporary reply to Brian Eno’s work from the 70s. [read more…]

The album is a bittersweet, enveloping and enormously engaging listen. It is ambient, but focused. This is not sonic mush, nor adolescent noise. Nor is it a dance album. Much of the raw material of the album was made in airports over the last three years. While on tour, the Black Dog made 200 hours of field recordings, much of which was processed and combined with new music in the airport itself, waiting for the next flight. This vast amount of content has been slowly distilled into a set of particularly evocative pieces of music.

Plaid & Zoe Martlew @ Faster than Sound 2007 (via @mariamouk)

Mir Nodes - Murcof (live at Montreux feat. Eric Truffaz on the trompet and Talvin Singh on the tablas).

Inspired by the concept of nodes by Jared Tarbel. This experiment is autonomous, that mean that it doesn’t need any input from me.

The concept is really simple; if a certain distance is detected between two particle, there is a communication. Here I think it’s the more basic communication: the particles simply attract each others. I just add to this concept the fact that each particles represent a certain frequency of the sound spectrum and those frequencies change the size and the influence area of each particles. So the more the frequency of one particle is high, the more the influence area will be big.

murcof - ulysses

(2003)

Video clip for the track ULYSSES from the album UTOPIA, made in 2004 by Tijuana’s film director AARON SOTO and performers AZZUL MONRAZ and ALDO GUERRA.