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Sven Hahne (Laptop, Visuals)
Matthias Muche (Slide Trombone, Visuals)
As if the risk of performing as a trombone-laptop-duo would not be enough, the two artists Matthias Muche and Sven Hahne consequently follow their vision of a true fusion of acoustic music, electronic music and computer graphics. Hahne and Muche have been dealing with the aspect of the body in electronic and improvised music for a long time now.
A good instrumentalist practices in his instrument every day. Over the years he is thus able to get the complete automatic control over the kinetic movements of his hands and feet as well as the control over his breath and the movement of his lips. The instruments of such exercised musicians convey the longing for being treated with the same sensitivity as the body of the musician itself would ask for.
In a post-dualistic imagination of body and soul, in terms of Umberto Maturanas and Franzisko Valeras, one could even go a step further: the instrument, intensively combined with the motor function of the musician, can not only be seen as an amplification of his body, but also of his mind. Certainly, it is a wonderful imagination to associate the thinking process of your own mind with the dolce sound of a harp or the well pitched vibrato of a violin.
Also the less dolce sounds of drums and fuzzed guitars can be assigned to specific thoughts. Apart from the mental component, what kind of physical amplification would a machine, such as a computer, display?
"men with motors" is surely one of the most absurd examples from the section of programmatic machine fixation. Human expression transported by acoustic and electronic sounds, as well as by natural and electronic images. The contrasting juxtaposition of these different mediums, interconnected with their input produced by human gesture, is supposed to stage the relation between the human body and the man-made machine.
contact: m3 AT menwithmotors DOT de
Sven Hahne (Laptop, Visuals)
Matthias Muche (Slide Trombone, Visuals)
As if the risk of performing as a trombone-laptop-duo would not be enough, the two artists Matthias Muche and Sven Hahne consequently follow their vision of a true fusion of acoustic music, electronic music and computer graphics. Hahne and Muche have been dealing with the aspect of the body in electronic and improvised music for a long time now.
A good instrumentalist practices in his instrument every day. Over the years he is thus able to get the complete automatic control over the kinetic movements of his hands and feet as well as the control over his breath and the movement of his lips. The instruments of such exercised musicians convey the longing for being treated with the same sensitivity as the body of the musician itself would ask for.
In a post-dualistic imagination of body and soul, in terms of Umberto Maturanas and Franzisko Valeras, one could even go a step further: the instrument, intensively combined with the motor function of the musician, can not only be seen as an amplification of his body, but also of his mind. Certainly, it is a wonderful imagination to associate the thinking process of your own mind with the dolce sound of a harp or the well pitched vibrato of a violin.
Also the less dolce sounds of drums and fuzzed guitars can be assigned to specific thoughts. Apart from the mental component, what kind of physical amplification would a machine, such as a computer, display?
"men with motors" is surely one of the most absurd examples from the section of programmatic machine fixation. Human expression transported by acoustic and electronic sounds, as well as by natural and electronic images. The contrasting juxtaposition of these different mediums, interconnected with their input produced by human gesture, is supposed to stage the relation between the human body and the man-made machine.
contact: m3 AT menwithmotors DOT de