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AWARDED BEST INNOVATION IN A SOUND TOOL OR TECHNIQUE BY:
MFT LABS
THE SOUND MUSEUM
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/// Mashrooms Recording Studio - turning a home into audio visual live performance recording studio
/// Audio visual music collaboration platform
THE ARTISTS
Zahara is a multidisciplinary humanist: musician, video artist, designer, creative thinker, art and audio visual director, producer and curator and collage artist (aka Availability Uncertain).
She has a specific interest in perception expansion and its shifting variability, and in the evocative power of visual narratives and the stories and people behind sounds. She has studied Sociology and creative writing in Escuela de Letras in Madrid, holds a degree in Philosophy and diplomas in Gestalt and mind-body therapies. She’s a singer, guitarist and songwriting with Ben and is currently collaborating with The Cicely Satellites.
Ben is a musician, music technologist and an inventor with background in audio visual production, art direction and performance arts. Ben has studies in Mime and in Music Technology and has a special interest in forming new visions of music in the digital landscape, especially through a visual perspective, challenging technologies beyond the borders of what is considered to be feasible.
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Long Lost Brother managed his previous duo Repairman. He’s a singer, guitarist and song-writer and has also been producer, engineer & music technology mentor to other bands and kids with challenging backgrounds. Currently collaborating with The Cicely Satellites.
AWARDS, EXHIBITIONS, TALKS & PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS
SOUND OF THE YEAR AWARDS in 2022
BEST INNOVATION IN A SOUND TOOL OR TECHNIQUE
Musicjelly Mashup iOS app - multi-channel short video mashup app
BASILDON OPEN LABS
OPEN CALL FEATURED PRIZE
Basildon Audio Visual Music Machine in collaboration with Together in Musical Expression (TIME) charity
INVENTIONS:
PATENT: US11551720B2
United States
A method for creating a synchronised sequence from multiple inputs of audio and video data
RELEVANT EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING
To be announced
PAST
404 International Festival of Art & Technology - 20th Anniversary - New York City (2023)
Piece: net art videoart EP The New Machine III
404 International Festival of Art & Technology - 20th Anniversary - Mexico City (2023)
Piece: net art videoart EP The New Machine III
Athens Digital Arts Festival 2021 "Tactus" - Athens, Greece (2021)
Piece: Astral Music Projections
Second International Video Art Forum - Dammam, Saudi Arabia (2019)
Piece: Audio Visual Music Machine
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York Art Gallery - Aesthetica Art Prize exhibition - York, UK (2019)
Piece: Don’t Say A Word, from The New Machine III series
Irene Taylor Trust - Music In Prisons - Sounding Out Programme COMMISSION - Online pieces (2018-2019)
The Vaults – Kinetica Museum Exhibition - Waterloo, London, UK (2018)
Piece: Propagation
Lauren Baker gallery – Covent Garden, London, UK (2018)
Piece: Don’t Say A Word, from The New Machine III series in local server touchscreen
Cairotronica – Palace of Arts, Cairo, Egypt (2018)
Piece: Audio Visual Music Machine
Kinetica Museum 10th Anniversary – Spitalfields, London, UK (2017)
Piece: Astral Music Projections
Barbican Centre – Deconstructing Mozart & Beethoven with the New York Philharmonic, for NYPhil’s biennial residency at Barbican Centre – Barbican, London, UK (2015)
inTRANSIT Festival Of Arts – Portobello, London, UK (2014)
Piece: Audio Visual Music Machine
Roundhouse – Camden Beach Exhibition – Camden, London, UK (2014)
Piece: Audio Visual Music Machine)
Roundhouse – Reverb Festival: “Giant interactive sonic playground”– Camden, London, UK (2014)
Piece: Audio Visual Music Machine
inHouse Film Festival – Manor House, London, UK (2014)
Piece: Audio Visual Music Machine
Barbican Centre – We Create: “Technology for Self Expression” – Barbican, London, UK (2014)
Piece: Audio Visual Music Machine
RELEVANT TALKS
Lauren Baker gallery – Covent Garden, London, UK (2018)
Kinetica Museum’s 10th anniversary – Spitalfields, London, UK (2017)
London Interactive Music Meetup - Google Campus - Old Street, London, UK (2016)
New Punks on the Block Festival - Digital Punks panel - London City University, London, UK (2016)
MusicTechFest – London, UK (2015)
5/15 – Fitch – London, UK (2015)
Southpaw’s “Furiously Curious” - Kent, UK (2015)
CultureTech (“Technology and The Performing Arts” panel curated by Barbican Centre), Derry, Northern Ireland, UK (2013)
PUBLICATIONS
Electronic Sound Magazine (UK) 2022 - issue 89 - Sound Of The Year Awards feature
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Athens Digital Arts Festival (Greece) - Technotribalism - Online festival 2020 - Installations Videos, featuring Astral Music Projections
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Dammam (Saudi Arabia) Second International Video Art Forum (2019) - Installation Videos, featuring Audio Visual Music Machine
Aesthetica Magazine – Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology 2018 “Future Now: 100 Contemporary Artists”
Kolaj Magazine - Kolaj #19 - https://kolajmagazine.com/content/issues/kolaj-19/
‘For lovers of collage, The Nyco Project is a rare opportunity to see just how far the genre can go’.
StyleBiblio – #1 “Otherness” - http://www.stylebiblio.com/product-page/the-otherness-issue
About The New Machine app:
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The Guardian - top 10 apps of the week
MusicWeek - The Tastemakers - “Genius”
Stereolab - “bold”
InvasionMag - “Possibly the coolest EP to have ever existed. Ever”