Faith No More / Mike Patton
Beth Gibbons / Portishead
Einstürzende Neubauten
Loreena McKennitt
Sarah McLaughlin
Jane's Addiction
Daniel Johnston
George Michael
Depeche Mode
Suzanne Vega
Nikos Xydakis
Skinny Puppy
Daniel Lanois
Tear Garden
Elvis Presley
Art Of Noise
Jane Siberry
Miguel Bosè
Morrissey
cEvin Key
Bee Gees
Mecano
Prince
Sade
MMW
Cure
PSB
NIN
Former incarnations:
-TIDE (1993-1996)
Eye began my first experimental / industrial project in 1993.
Eye taped everything from absurd prank phone conversations
to home appliances, bicycles, bathrooms and acoustic guitars.
4 hours of this nonsense are kept somewhere in my old home.
-Spellbinder (1996-1997)
Eye grew a nice collection of small Yamaha keyboards
because for a long time Eye couldn’t afford a pro synth.
When Eye finally bought my old beat up Akai AX-80,
Eye started to gig under this extravagant moniker,
playing elaborated compositions with piano and harpsichord sounds.
Because of this project Eye was considered a “Goth” for many years.
-Plexus (1997)
Beatless cascades of thick sounds and synthetic textures.
AX-80, Juno-106, an FM tone generator & a Casio synth
separately taped in 2 individual stereo tracks (L/R).
Very few copies of this were distributed in 1998.
-Into Ether [with Adrián Sierra / Viktor A. & Dawn Atlas + guests]
Electronic dance music that could be considered maximal techno
influenced by the sound of analogue synthesizers on magnetic tape.
Live and / or studio collaborations include:
Frown ComPlex (1998-1999)
Cats On CracK (2000)
Mosquito [with Octavio De La Torre]
De:Construcción / Lemniscata / HMV52 [with Heibeg & Viktor Alzina]
Francisco López (On his "untitled sonic microorganisms")
Rafael Flores (On his "noche de los muertos")
Zan Hoffman (On his "here be monsters: aloof traipse"+)
UP [with Andrés Vazquez a.k.a. Nodashi]
25Nombres [with Roger Montserrat]
33Canales [with Vate]
Other works as Minuit:
Soundtracks for theater, dance troupes and independent short films.
Live improvisational backdrops for photography & art exhibitions.
Spoken word performance and live/mix for fashion shows.
MIDI & Recording Studios:
-A cold storage space of spite
(My previous home studio in Tijuana, México)
-The BreedFactor Lab
(Owned and maintained by Héctor i.Benítez a.k.a. Heibeg)
-Sassafras studio
(Formerly held by Adam Joyce a.k.a. Trip Tribe in San Diego, CA)
+Klansoff's Gate Keeper, Out Records Hillcrest studio & El Domino.
Currently recording vocals & / or acoustic instruments
(& / or writing lyrics / journal notes / making friends / taking photos)
in random rooms all over Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia,
Donosti, Bilbao, Paris, Udine, Salzburg, Hallein & Berlin.
Also on trains, airports, radio & / or bus stations and public WCs.
My sentiments exactly:
Eye have a good memory.
Especially when remembering events.
Unimportant knowledge probably doesn't exist to me at all,
because every little thing is a connection to something bigger.
This is how memories work. They are a bulk of impressions.
At night you have got all your thoughts and impressions of the day
in your machine up there, like file folders in a lot of boxes...
In those phases between dreams and waking up
the walls of those boxes tumble down and everything flows together.
That's how memories are created. But that's also how creativity works.
Human consciousness has too much control over these boxes.
You need to pass out in order to let the information flow together.
As a creative person you need to sleep a lot.
Sometimes Eye struggle for hours to find the right expression
for a certain feeling... after a dream or two,
Eye find the words Eye was needing so badly.
Eye am addicted to constant creation and movement.
Eye can't function in the real world without being creative.
And Eye am here ruining my health
knowing that it would be better to lead a life without being creative...
We are living in times when there are many people with technical skills
and financial means to produce art, which can be a kind of false art.
Eye don't see myself as a modern person,
and don’t feel particularly comfortable in the modern world
but Eye am creative and Eye keep on working to preserve my spirit.
The process of working with integrity,
for me is very fulfilling.
All you can do is keep working in the direction you think is right for yourself.
William Blake worked till death.
The fact that he had a chaotic life
and still managed to work is a great inspiration.
The last thing he sent out for was a pencil to draw his wife!
That says it all for me.
Not interested in cracking markets or producing a commodity that sells.
Eye couldn’t give a damn about that. It probably shows but Eye care not.
Eye loathe the new dj-go-lucky / rock star façade
and will do what Eye can to ensure that people know me
for who Eye am, warts and all.
Eye don’t salivate over gear, just over the prospect of making music.
This is why Eye will work with anyone whose work Eye admire,
and who would approach me to collaborate, regardless of whether
that work is pop, neo-classical, techno, experimental or whatever.
Eye am very much against the tagging of music:
What the fuck is "world" music if it's all from this world?
We are segregated enough as people by territorial pissings & politics.
Everything has its own place in time and every kind of music fills a void.
It matters little to me if it's from Norway, la LA land, Brazil or Uranus.
Eye am fascinated by history, geography & culture,
music, people, art, noises and voices, nature & food.
Information can be extremely dangerous,
this does not mean ignorance is bliss.
Eye don't care about borders or the absurdity of politics
and consider racism to be an acidic obstacle for progress.
Injustice in every corner can only be relieved
by furious bravery and the rupture of silence.
That is why Eye say:
Honor and enjoy the gift of freedom.
minuit, thanx so much. you catch me 15 years too late, or 5 years too early. at the moment my daughters and my new girlfriend need me. and besides I have no fucking clue how to finance all this anyway. even without traveling across europe ...
...and black coffee on counters (no refill please!!!!!!), some house deco called "free". Yes, all purple and insane, probably the vicious circle starts and ends with the dalmatian cakes!
no, this is ars electronica/linz/austria ... and the lady is working for art projekt, that includes free sunshelter for mobilusers ... anyway it is kind of macho ... and very sexy!
Hey MinUit hello , como siempre produciendo buena musica, ya sabes se te extraña en la sin city de mexico jejejjee salud man y estamos en contacto.....
Xavier Torres....
