<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b>New
podcast: Roc Jiménez de Cisneros about EVOL's very free deconstruction
and reinterpretation of György Ligeti's 'Continuum' and Hanne Darboven’s
'Opus 17a'</b><br></span></font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/evol/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/evol/capsula<br></a></span></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br>The
name of EVOL comes from the Catalan word for Sambucus Ebulus, a
herbaceous species of elder with a characteristic foetid smell. Under
this moniker, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros and Stephen Sharp make what they
call 'computer music for hooligans' or 'rave synthesis'.<br><br>Since
1996, their deconstructed rave objects have been released on record
labels such as Editions Mego, Diagonal, Entr'acte, Presto!?, and ALKU,
and presented as installations and live performances worldwide.<br>Even
though they reject a clear divide between high and low culture, their
aesthetic exploration of algorithmic composition could be said to occupy
a neutral place between academia, experimental music and club music.
With influences ranging from popular culture – from Basshunter to 'Close
Encounters of the Third Kind' - to highbrow music by composers such as
György Ligeti and Hanne Darboven, their music is slippery as slime when
it comes to definitions. As their close friend Goodiepal put it a while
ago: 'it’s radical computer music'.<br><br>A list of keywords that have
been applied to their work may offer some clues to crucial and lateral
aspects of their work: rave, synthesis, elasticity, time dilation,
chronesthesia, goo, hoover, hoover-stretching, hyperobject, slime,
psychedelia, altered states, fractal, upward spiral, downward spiral,
warping, hooliganism, mereology, horns, horny, kaiju, tetrafluoroethane,
acid, anti-humanism, mentasmic, climax, freeze-frame, recursive, poing,
non-anthem, strobe, party boobytrap, fold-in, continuum, squashed,
monolith, asymmetry, homeomorphic, recurrence, fluorescence, phlop.<br><br>SON[I]A
talks with Roc Jiménez de Cisneros about EVOL's very free
deconstruction and reinterpretation of György Ligeti's 'Continuum' and
Hanne Darboven’s 'Opus 17a', and how these works relate to the duo’s
current artistic practice. <b>Unusual notions of time in relation to
music, algorithmic reverse engineering, complexity through simplicity,
anti-climax, ancient trance music, weird mental states and Dick Higgins'
Superboredom concept pop up in the conversation.</b><br><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">More EVOL @Radio_Web_MACBA: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_2_evol_marcus_schmickler/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_2_evol_marcus_schmickler/capsula<br></a><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Enjoy!<br></span></font></div></div>