Re

2004-2005

Type

Group

Keywords

remix, recontextualise, live sampling, ambient sound

Status

inactive

Entities

Alex Berman, Gabor Papp, Annie Wan

Link

http://timebend.net/re

Re combined Alex Berman's interest in field recordings, and my interest in improvised music to attempt to create music using only live environment sampling.

At shows we would hang microphones out of the windows, or point them out of the doors and process the sound to make the music

The result was a weird reinterpretation of the sounds that our brains had deliberately filtered out. By placing the sounds in a musical context we're forced reconsider them, re-acquaint ourselves with them.

Collaborators Gabor Papp and Annie Wan provided a video complement to the audio, processing live video feeds of the locations that were mic'd.