'The exercise of the internal demons', the possibility to expose his obsessions through audio. 'Exorcizo', the title of Israel Martinez' CD, is Spanish slang created with the words exorcism and exercise. If one reads his biography, where he played concerts and some of the prizes he won, you may expect some highly serious, academic form of electro-acoustic music. But that's half the story, I guess. Martinez adds humor to his music, as well as some force to the sounds he uses. Take 'Mi Vida', which starts with the ignition of a car, then a car ride and, how sad, a car crash, all spiced up with car engine sounds. Now that is humor, and noise, I guess. And the recurring theme of noise comes back in the other four tracks too. As said Martinez likes a bit of noise in his music, thus hiding his original sound sources, but he doesn't step into the trap of pure distortion or being too academic in his processing, but rather tells us a nice story of his own, as each of these pieces is a narrative (without words) piece of music, like 'Epidermis', using the sound of someone getting a tattoo, but changing into a massive, machine like piece. This is the noise that I like: thoughtful, loud and simply good. (FdW)
VITAL WEEKLY (NL)
"Mi Vida by Israel Martínez is the acoustic account of a car ride that comes to a sudden, tragic end. The piece is composed solely of traffic noise, engine sounds, the squealing of brakes and the crunching of metal. It doesn’t follow a linear narrative structure; rather, it amalgamates content elements and acoustic components in random, occasionally reversed sequence. The title “Mi Vida” alludes to the automobile’s place in our society and a human being’s own life spent—and ultimately ended—in a car moving from Point A to Point B." TEXT BY ARS ELECTRONICA
ENG
Israel Martínez (Guadalajara, Mexico. 1979) is composer and sound artist with a degree in communications. He has worked for different fields: installation and sound intervention, composition of electroacoustic and experimental music, and video production. He has participated in most of the sound art, electroacoustic and experimental music festivals in Mexico in the last years as Radar, Visiones Sonoras, Transitio MX, Instrumenta, Muestra Internacional de Arte Sonoro, Mutek, Interface and SONOM. Also he has performed and his works have been played at different festivals and concerts in England, Spain, France, Austria and Colombia. Recently Israel won the Award of Distinction of Ars Electronica 2007 in the Digital Musics category.
ESP
Israel Martínez (Guadalajara, México 1979) es artista sonoro, compositor - músico empírico y licenciado en ciencias de la comunicación. Su trabajo se desarrolla en diferentes áreas: instalación e intervención sonora, composición de música experimental – electroacústica y producción de video.
Ha participado en la mayoría de festivales de arte sonoro, música electroacústica y música electrónica experimental de México en los últimos años como Radar, Visiones Sonoras, Mutek, Muestra Internacional de Arte Sonoro, Instrumenta, Interface y SONOM, además de la Bienal Internacional de Arte Electrónico Transitio 02 MX y uno de los encuentros más importantes de artes electrónicas a nivel mundial, el Festival Ars Electronica de Austria, en donde recibió en 2007 el Premio de Distinción en la categoría de Músicas Digitales por su obra “Mi vida”.
Ha presentado obra y tocado en vivo en ciudades de México, Inglaterra, Francia, España y Austria. Su principal enfoque artístico e investigativo es la relación del sonido con la sociedad y sus entornos.
BORDER TALLERES. AGOSTO/SEPTIEMBRE
AGOSTO-OCTUBRE
ANIMACIÓN ANÁLOGA. 40 HORAS.
COLECTIVO DIEZ Y MEDIA
El taller se impartirá los miercoles y viernes de 19 a 21:30 horas en Border. Inicia el Viernes 22 de agosto y finaliza el miercoles 15 de octubre.
AGOSTO-SEPTIEMBRE
DISEÑO Y PRODUCCIÓN DE TATUAJES. 20 HORAS.
VAMPIRO
El taller se impartirá los lunes y jueves de 19 a 21:30 horas en Border. Inicia el lunes 18 de Agosto y finaliza el jueves 11 de Septiembre.
BORDERLAD.
PURE DATA III. 20 HORAS.
JAVIER LARA
Pd I y II se impartirá los martes de 19 a 21:30 horas y los sábados de 16 a 18:30 horas en Border. Inicia el martes 26 de Agosto y finaliza el sábado 20 de Septiembre.
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Lunes a viernes de 12 a 20 horas.
Tras el desarrollo del primer taller de vijing impartido por VJ CHANA y tras un proceso de selección por parte de CHANA, COPY CAT y DESOLLADO, se presenta el trabajo producido por los mismos alumnos.
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that my new album Afrikan Machinery is out now on Tzadik Records. Check out some of the tracks on my profile! You can buy the CD here, here, or here. It's also available on iTunes.
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