Unlike other festivals, MUTEK is a movable community. Whether you’re one of our international headliners, a local talent from just up the street, a digital artist lighting up one of Montreal’s downtown buildings, or a fan from thousands of miles away, once you arrive at MUTEK you join a communal experience.
Above and beyond providing a reference point for the many activities planned over the 5 days of our 12th edition, the festival website regroups the most complete information possible for each featured artist featured. Mp3s, videos, links to articles and more have been assembled to help you preview those unfamiliar and intriguing names listed as part of this year’s lineup.
Musician & Label-Owner Quantazelle AKA Liz McLean Knight has made the reference public on her publicity photos. It’s based on the (now) most expensive photograph ever, Untitled #153. Check out the comparison and her artist statement here.
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The 4th Annual Experimental Garage Sale to be held on June 11 in Chicago is a craft fair that focuses on circuit bending and DIY musical instruments, taking place at the indoor Experimental Sound Studio space with a dozen sellers hawking circuit bent devices, un-bent toys, electronic parts, kits, experimental instruments, contact microphones, guitar pedals, art, and more. It runs from 12:00 PM until 6:00 PM.
Check out the Facebook Event page for more info.
Here are some photos by the sellers:
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Tim Exile of Warp Records explains his live performance setup featuring his own custom patches, live looping & sampling, using Native Instrument’s Reaktor and The Finger with hardware controllers.
Here is a really lovely remix of Bjork by Kettel that was probably done in 2010.
This is a documentary from BBC 4 about British synthpop & synthesizers in the late 70s and early 80s and features interviews with members of New Order, Human League, Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire, OMD, Gary Numan and more. Watch the full series here.
