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Juan Matos Capote: modified and created electronic appliances (toys, radios, oscillators), field recordings, video.
untitled (2010) (modified electronic toy) by juan matos capote
untitled (2010) by juan matos capote (modified electronic toy)
o este (2009) by juan matos capote (modified electronic devices + tumbi)
“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) (fabricated oscillator + modified electronics) by juan matos capote
jabal (2008) by juan matos capote
(from the album jabal, circuit torçat records, 2009)
Examples of Self-Made Hydrophone Recordings in Rivers by juan matos capote
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 poker bonus organic.
live at miscelanea (2/19/10) by astero by juan matos capote
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).
