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Live Recording at Next Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia, Dec 12, 2009
Mastered by Gisburg, Harvestworks, NYC
Total Time: 32:44
Mario de Vega´s work explores the potential of fragility, ambiguity and contextual relations between objects, spaces and users.
His interventions, sound sculptures, documents and projects are framed in the context of the accident and distortion between a thin line of simulation and reality. Rules in which previous negotiations and agreements where solved. His projects are not strictlly legal or ilegal and some and sometimes are just produced for sound or photo documentation.As sound improviser, his work is the result of unstable sound objetcs, the intensification of acustic space with overlayering of sound information and the design - modification of electronic devices for sound improvisation.
Using turntables, circuit bent devices, analog electronics and custom software in different combinations, his improvisations are unpredictable situations caused by fragile objects and the potential of its failure.
Mario de Vega. Next Festival. Bratislava, 2009 from -- on Vimeo.
Frans DeWaal / Vital Weekly
... a relatively short solo one by Mario de Vega, who is a member of Die Schrauber, who had a disc before on Acheulian Handaxe. De Vega plays here modified turntables, objects and electronics. Six heavy slabs of improvised noise, lasting twenty six minutes (and not thirty-two as listed on the cover). A deep end rumble produced on the rotating surface, feeding through some effects and the rattle of objects on top. Intense stuff that falls somewhere in between improvised music (obviously) and noise, even when it never really goes over the top, which I guess is a good thing. Perhaps the concise nature of this excursion helps too.
