Modern Body Festival proudly presents the European premiere of The Brutalist Noise Ensemble!
The Brutalist Noise Ensemble is an audiovisual performance composed for a series of sound-sculptures, aiming to highlight the potential aesthetics of some normally-ignored aural/visual phenomena of the urban life. The sound-sculptures are comprised of “non-musical” objects: electromechanical motors, actuators, bits and pieces of metal. By presenting its “non-beautiful” raw material in sculpture forms, the ensemble takes them through an aesthetic transformation inspired by the Brutalist architecture ethos. This transformation is completed with the help of mechatronics and microcontroller programming, affording the instruments the ability to create precise and repetitive patterns and motions. Limited to right angles, cubes, and rectangles, the instruments are designed for function alone, leaving no room for ornamental features in their strikingly reductionist appearance. This austere visual quality is further highlighted through bursts of fluorescent light, which in negotiating a fine line between the mesmerising and the uncomfortable, intensify the sensory experience of the work in a fully visceral manner.
Audiovisual performance
Date
2 Dec
Time
20:15-20:45
Venue
De Nieuwe Regentes
Grote Zaal
Module
Performance
Links
Website
BIO
Mo H. Zareei aka mHz is an electronic musician, sound artist and researcher. Using custom-built software and hardware, his experiments with sound range from electronic music to kinetic sound-sculpture and audiovisual installations. Regardless of the medium, Zareei’s work is particularly targeted at the point where noise meets grid-based structures. He has exhibited his work at several international events including the International Symposium on Electronic Art, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, and Wellington Lux. Zareei’s sound-sculptures have been featured on Streaming Museum, Creative Applications, and Creators Project. His installation “Rasping Music” received the 1st prize for Sound Art in the Sonic Arts Award 2015. Zareei holds a B.S. in Physics from Shahid Beheshti university of Tehran and a BFA. in music technology from California Institute of the Arts. He recently completed his Ph.D. on the intersections of Brutalism and sound art at Victoria University of Wellington, where he now lectures.