Atomino 2010

Timur Kuyanov aka Sonomute is sound artist from Siberia living in Berlin. Working in areas of sound art, performance, installation art with strong influence of ancient spiritual practices as well as modern generative art techniques, dada and surrealists esthetics and psychedelic culture.

Here we present a live track recorded last 26.04.2010 at Madame Claude in Berlin.

For most of his sounds he uses small self-made synthesizers as well as Supercollider on Ipod touch. We enjoy his sounds and the minimalistic concept of his proposal:

The idea behind is to develop new embedded technology into real music instruments, and prove that with amount of equipment which fit into your pocket you can get quite a impressive sound quality as well as make it look interesting for public.

Artist hiding behind laptop is the main failure of computer music, and multitasking concept making it even worse, people never was cutting wood and playing melodies on guitar for example, why shall modern artist check e-mail on his instrument as well as perform in concert hall? (even though in case with many percussive instruments it is not quite true, i agree, but this is another case, they went through long process of development), so even if i’m in general like computer as an sound generating source, without limiting it’s functionality i can’t call this office machine “music instrument”.

With new wave of embedded technology like single-board computers (Beagleboard for example) and powerful mobile platforms like iphone and Android with it’s ability of physical interaction (built-in accelerometers,multi-touch screens) and lack of multitasking (yeah, i know about iphone os 4.0;) these devices much more feels like something that you can take and play as an instrument…Well, you can read about this more in my future final thesis!

Well, needless to say that we are excited about these new fresh ideas… in the meantime know&hear more in Timur Kuyanov Soundcloud Site.