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THE NYCO PROJECT

Psychedelic pop rock band   |   video art

Realism and surrealism, evocative stories, sensual grooves, desert sounds, gritty pop, power blues and psychedelic existential rock.

T N P is Strange Pill's most intimate experimental channel of expression.

Our organic process is based on documenting all individual sounds and recorded performances on camera, capturing each moment from begining to end, which are then treated like cutups of a collage.

T N P is formed by Strange Pill artists, vocalists, human samples and multi-instrumentalists Zahara Muñoz-Vicens and Ben Hardy, together with Daisy Brodskis (bass, keys and backing vocals) and Joantoni Seguí (drums, percussion and backing vocals).

 

The Nyco Project is at the origin of Strange Pill's existence and exploratory process.

 

With the 2000s crisis of the music industry the band was set to experiment with its recording process to experience the rawness of music in a digital landscape, becoming the laboratory to unveil the visual narratives lost in an audio recording. In 2013 received Arts Council Funding and published our first independent EP as the ephemeral interactive audio visual app “The New Machine” (iOS & Android): the first release of a series of deconstructable video-collage perception-expansion music pieces.

These visual elements that make the whole of each song turn into moving paintings that respond to touch.

Press reactions to The New Machine app:

 

“bold” - Stereoboard

“genius” - MusicWeek

“Possibly the coolest EP to have ever existed. Ever” - InvasionMag

“Could The Nyco Project's New EP be the most innovative music app yet?” Appadvice...

 

The New Machine II followed up as a temporary online exhibition and in 2017 we finished The New Machine III.

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The New Machine III music is also the backing track of documentary essay on mapuche circular time concept "The Earthquake of Time" by Gian Marcos Godoy (director of the prized Bob Marley, The Making Of A Legend).

 

The three The New Machine series will be presented as a vinyl (The Twelve Seasons) to be released with the exhibition of The New Machine III as soon as the adequate venue is chosen. Follow us to find out when this will be or join our newsletter.
 

THE TWELVE SEASONS

The video below shows the preview of The New Machine complete series installation, presented as "The Twelve Seasons" in a pop-up gallery off Abbey Road -a phylanthropic space that Strange Pill turned into a three-floor audio visual journey with different linear and non-linear music experiences.

The video demonstrates the engagement & reactions of the audience with the interactive video-collage installation & how these deconstructable pieces work.

THE NEW MACHINE SERIES

NON-INTERACTIVE VIDEO VERSIONS

zahara-scrapyard
ben-snowed-garden
zahara-dublin-castle 2
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zahara- soller train
zahara spray - best of you
fade away - ben picked up
you're so weak - zahara bath tub
20 Picture 45
zahara - field - she's only carbon
nyco-good-ship
Screen Shot daisy wipe me to forget 03 c
nyco all - good ship
jt & z good ship
jt-richmond park
good-ship-all
good-ship-zahara
good-ship-all-2
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DSC_1154
DSC_1156
daisy-nyco-projection
carbon - backing vocals
ben-dublin-castle
ben Norfolk fields w kit & jonny
ben - field - she's only carbon
19 Picture 37
18 Picture 53
17 the pilot song - zahara the bass cell
16 the pilot song - kavus gtr regent sou
15 the pilot song - ben hanks guitars
13 car - zahara vox sta margalida scrapy
12 car - ben bass caravan Norfolk
11_car_-_zahara_gtr_tren_de_sóller_10
10_car_-_zahara_gtr_tren_de_sóller_3
9 all so unnatural - ben flying 3
5 all so unnatural - joan toni barge lon
zahara-dublin-castle
4 all so unnatural - joan toni barge lon
ben - good ship

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