EVOL @ENJOY, LEEDS, UK - 20/08/2010

We have great pleasure to announce that Barcelona based computer music
project EVOL will be performing at ENJOY (Unit 22C, Mabgate, Leeds, UK LS9 7DZ)
on the 20th of August. Also performing will be Rian Treanor and
Richard Sides.

Hope you can make it.
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enjoy

EVOL

Richard Sides

Rian Treanor


20/08/10
8pm
£4

Unit 22C
Mabgate
Leeds
UK
LS9 7DZ

info@enjoythevoltaire.co.uk

www.enjoythevoltaire.co.uk

EVOL is a computer music group started in 1996. At the core of the project is Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, an artist and composer living and working in Barcelona. Since the late nineties, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros and his collaborators have been producing what they call "computer music for hooligans", inspired by fractal geometry, quantum theory and rave culture. A vortex of generative basslines, air horns, strangely familiar vocalisations and noise, their music displays a radical and playful approach to algorithmic composition. Their work has been published on international record labels like Entr'acte, Mego, Presto!? or their own ALKU.

"...a razor sharp atonalism that follows its own sense of abandoned humor" (Igloo Mag)
"...a brief record that catches the listener off guard with its pseudo-musical, unpredictable nature." (Michael Tau, Vital Weekly)
"reinforced concrète!" (Joe Gerhardt, Semiconductor Films)
"...sounds like R2D2 being raped" (Graham Sharp)
"Simply too much to be true" (Vital Weekly)
"Un universo a metà tra rilettura ironica e applicazione da studiosi matematici, di dificile penetrazione e altrettanto ardua commerciabilità." (Blow Up)
"Booty, sexy music" (Pedro Soler, curator/director of Hangar)
"Generative violence" (RDL Magazine)
"If you've ever wondered what the Carl Stalling-indebted score to a circa-2109 Pixar plotless cartoon about robotic, hyper house-mice might sound like..." (Grooves)
"Punani Rubberist [...] sounds like Parmeggiani doing a soundtrack to Backdoor Sluts 9." (Han Van Den Hoof)
"...this is what I imagine Chewbacca would sound like after a heavy night on ketamine." (Stephen Sharp)

www.vivapunani.org

www.vimeo.com/8144595

"BLACKOUT. Representation, transformation and de-control in the sound work of Yasunao Tone." (Roc Jiménez de Cisneros 2009)

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Yasunao Tone (Tokyo, 1935) is a Japanese interdisciplinary artist. He graduated from Chiba Japanese National University in 1957, majoring in Japanese literature. He became active in the Fluxus movement in the 1960s and moved to the United States in 1972. He organised and participated in many experimental music and performance groups such as Group Ongaku, Hi-Red Center and Team Random (the first computer art group in Japan). His unconventional musical work brings together certain forms of traditional Eastern culture and post-structuralist theories, and since the mid to late nineties has become a notable influence on new generations of sound artists worldwide. He lives and works in New York.

Roc Jiménez de Cisneros is a musician and composer. His work, mainly as part of computer music group EVOL, explores algorithmic composition, noise, psychedelia, system trajectories and the musical application of fractal geometry and other mathematical phenomena. He lives and works in Barcelona.

The conversations which form the basis for this interview took place in March 2002 (email interview by Anna Ramos) and July 2008, during Yasunao Tone’s visit to Barcelona, coinciding with his performance at MACBA, and were continued by email with Tone, Fell, Hecker and Held during February-March 2009.
Tone’s work has alsobeen featured on issues 1 and 7 of the Ràdio Web MACBA programme Lines of Sight.

http://rwm.macba.cat