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AUDIO

mpld: rncd-r #4 20min06sec, 27.7 MB
Sound from prepared slide projectors. This is the audio component of one mpld rehearsal take, performed just before the Lapse Pacing show at Roulette's Mixology Festival. There is a 15 minutes excerpt from the actual performance in the video section below.

Gill Arnò: Contact fix 8min22sec, 11.5 MB
Listening to the amplified sound of contact microphones while I was soldering them gave me the idea for this track, a studio piece constructed with various field recordings from Winter 2006.

Gill Arnò: Flu high 5min02sec, 7 MB
I did this sketch during a really cold April night in the studio, with in my mind little Vera's antibodies buildup. Sound sources: glockenspiel, synthesizer, piano soundboard, music box, computer.

Gill Arnò: Summer sleepwalk/Acra 05 7min56sec, 11.2 MB
Field recordings and the theme of sound journal often meet in a strive toward authenticity - a strategic resistance to the mediascape's endemic deceitfulness. However, the approach I chose for the Sleepwalk series aims rather at engaging the subjectivity of recollection, as I find myself fascinated by how memory and perception reconstruct, distort, somehow always intervene against pure factuality.
This track originally appeared on the compilation 8 Sound Works - A disc in support of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology.

Gill Arnò: Winter sleepwalk/Pirratinze 05-06 15min00sec, 21.2 MB
I could never really decide if the big, noisy refrigerator that adds a quasi-constant layer of resonant hum to my living space is utterly annoying or a harmoniously pleasant, even reassuring presence - it is probably both. In this track I offer my contribution to the exploration of musical possibilities of kitchen appliances. Other source sounds used were recorded in the Swiss Alps during new year's eve.
This track originally appeared with the title Still on radio home listen, in a show of farewell for Broadcastatic.

Gill Arnò: rncd-r #3 - Low speed dangeous 20min09sec, 27.7 MB
I don't know what a "dangeous" could actually be, but I thought that it was an inspiring phrase... The title of this track comes from a sticker found in NYC Chinatown's Mahayana Buddhist Temple. Field recordings, tape manipulations, amplified slide projectors and other sources were composed into this somewhat hallucinated Christmas soundwalk through one of my favourite neighborhoods.

mpld/ben owen: Untitled #1 16min35sec, 22.8 MB
This is the first track released in unframed recordings' 10e series. Actually, it is altogether the first of unframed's "anti-products:" after the 10 copies of the edition are gone, the release as a commercial item is dead.
Don't be mislead by the deadpan title - the barest surfaces sometimes are nothing but a screen.

EA: EA meets the ghost puppeteers 24min21sec, 36.8 MB
"...Was Nixon involved with that clique, sir?..."
My contribution to EA's remix/rework project. I embedded a "ghost" performer into the mix, counterpointing through software automation one already quite eventful improvised session. Like a sonic Frankenstein, and arguably like all recorded music, the resulting piece incorporates live breath and inanimate prosthetics.



VIDEO

mpld: Lapse pacing, live excerpt 1 14min59sec, 48.7 MB
Live at Roulette's Mixology Festival, NYC, 2005.
Video and audio recorded by Jim Staley and Zeljko McMullen.

mpld: Lapse pacing, live excerpt 2 2min21sec, 7.7 MB
Just a short snippet of the mpld amplified slide projection - this is a shorter excerpt from the previous example.
Video and audio recorded by Jim Staley and Zeljko McMullen.

EA: live at NISUS - improvisation #1 12min53sec, 40.5 MB
Sound: Ben Owen and Gil Sansón
Image: mpld, Andy Graydon
Video and audio recorded by Andy Graydon.

EA: live at NISUS - improvisation #2 11min39sec, 38.5 MB
Sound: Richard Garet, Andy Graydon
Image: mpld
Video and audio recorded by Andy Graydon.

Little Strings: live at NISUS excerpt 11min53sec, 18.6 MB
Gil Sansón and mpld's collaboration, live from NISUS- Galeria Galou dated May 26th, 2005.
Video recorded by Theres Wegmann, audio recorded by Gill Arnò.

ben owen and mpld: s. intro 3min17sec, 9.8 MB
In the Spring of 2003, after a long collaboration as label Broklyn Beat's resident visualists at Subtonic's Barreled events, Ben and I got together with the intent to broaden the range of our collaboration. Ben had been active with the group Ting Ting Jahe for several years already, and at the time was starting his seasonal series of experimental music events. I had been thinking of moving beyond the silent image and back into music making after a six-years hyatus. s. intro is the outcome of our first intermedia exchange, and our collaboration is still happily developing to this day.

Criterion/mpld: B'way 6min18sec, 20 MB
Excerpt from La Ciudad, a 20 minutes video piece released by Broklyn Beats records in 2005. Criterion's broken beats function as the structure to which I have anchored a quite hectic video editing. The footage was shot over a four-years span, trying to abstract the living pulse from a few blocks around Broklyn Beats' headquarters (and our homes). The video was featured at the Transit 06, Transmediale 07 and VBrooklyn 07 festivals.


BOOKS/STILL IMAGE

One more episode in between recollection and amnesia pdf, 7 by 5 inches, 22 pages; 3.7 MB.
I prepared this book (and an accompanying cd) as a material parallel to the mpld performance in the series A fold in the fabric, organized by LMAKprojects in the fall of 2006. In the performance the image flow is all but static, appearing from darkness on a large screen in a slowly evolving cinematic flicker. The book does not try to suggest the live motion and the scale of the live performance. It focuses instead on the possibilities of the printed image - the prints are hence based on a selection of multi-layered stills, cropped and sequenced in order to allow their textural quality to emerge according to the individual pace of the viewer.

Albinea burnout pdf, 8.89 by 6.67 inches, 16 pages; 604 KB.
When I was asked for a contribution for Sonic scope quarterly I set out to explore the possibilities of web distribution and the pdf format. Looking for something that would stand in between static and animated image, and also refer to matter and appearance, I came to the idea of a digital flipbook that would put in dynamic relation the idea of permanence and some of its opposites like decay and vulnerability.

Temporary sequence #4 pdf, 5.35 by 3.54 inches, 36 pages; 1.9 MB.
The Temporary sequences were published to keep a record of the projected environments made for the seasonal intermedia series. Two screens were juxtaposed in a room allowing for the brief encounter of two found slides - mnemonic fragments having lost the connection with their original context. The title, Temporary Sequence, points to the ephemeral and arbitrary nature of this encounter, and to the way in which narratives can develop in the mind of the observer.