Juan Matos Capote: modified / created electronic appliances and field recordings
In his sound practices, Matos Capote uses electronic circuits which he has created and modified (toys, radios, oscillators, pedals), and field recordings.
chalk (excerpt) (2010) by juan matos capote (oscillator + modified radio) (unreleased, from upcoming album)
uveachefe (2010) by juan matos capote (modified radio) (unreleased, from the upcoming split album with murnau on october 2010, cassette and CD format)
untitled (2010) by juan matos capote (modified electronic toy)
"Matos Capote's own effort… is a subtle and multilayered affair... the music attains a somewhat raw, direct and gritty live-quality despite its microtonal finesse on the level of sound design. "Jabal" revolves around an ambient interplay between chance and determination, between human intervention and machinal initiative, between strangely organic movement and alien timbres."
(Tobias Fischer, Tokafi, 2009)
jabal (2008) by juan matos capote (from the album jabal, circuit torçat records, 2009)
"Mr. Capote knows how to make some interesting noise I must say. He has moments of extremity without being harsh and assaulting with subtle and gentle melodies amidst the high frequencies."
(Charlie Martineau [10/10],Connexion Bizarre)
"Capote’s work isn’t exactly minimal but that influence is present. He focuses on constructing pieces from small fragments of sound."
(Drew Dahle,Auxiliary Out)
(modified radio)
eselefe (excerpt) (2010) by juan matos capote (modified radio) (unreleased, from the upcoming split album with murnau on october 2010, cassette and CD format)
(oscillator, modified radio, video @ SÓNAR Festival 2010, Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, MACBA, Spain)
(recording subacuatic river sounds with self-made hydrophone and modiffied walkman) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
monolith
Alfredo Costa Monteiro: turntable Juan Matos Capote: circuit bending
This duo, formed in Barcelona in 2010, employs modified domestic appliances as sound sources. Two faces, two approaches which reveal the same enigma: that of sounds shaped in the moment of their own creation, by way of the simple contact of fingers, or of electricity passing through the internal circuits of the modified devices - or perhaps the amplification of materials (rather than objects) placed on the turntable of a record player. Inviting the most basic kinds of accident, resulting from unstable and minimal constructs, or from a more than simply intuitive handling, sometimes becoming accidents of accidents - either way you might say that the hand is the real instrument which, by way of clever tricks, vibrations, vague movements or tremors, stamps the sound with an indeterminacy which connects it directly to the organic.
live at miscelanea (excerpt) (2/19/2010) by monolith ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
matos & sjöberg
Noemi Sjöberg: video Juan Matos Capote: sound
Working in En Tornos, a project based on sound and video field recordings of urban rivers in Catalunya and the clash bewteen the natural and the artificial. A coexistence which is not always easy and results in a greater or lesser pragmatic balance between human and natural resources.
matos & sjöberg's works:
- Riu Besòs (2009) Audio and visual field recordings of the Besòs River in Barcelona (Spain).
Short edited video excerpt of the audiovisual live performance Riu Besòs on May 23, 2009, during the OPTOSONIC TEA as part of the LOOP FESTIVAL 2009 in Barcelona at Espai Ubu.
Live Video: Noemi Sjoberg Live Sound: Juan Matos Capote
- Riu Segre (2009) Audio and visual field recordings of the Segre River in Lleida (Spain). Audio visual work comissioned by Centre d'Art la Panera for the exhibition "Territori Lleida" (2010).
