Mean Time Between Failure
post-glitch electronica, field recordings, improvised soundscapes, interactive corpus-based synthesis.
Go to http://myspace.com/xmtbf to listen.
Rooftop Concert, Paris
Oldine invites to his 10th floor…with 12 more above…
Venue: ROOFTOP CONCERT , Telegraphe , Paris, Ile-de-France 75019 , FR
DVD documentation is available.
Photo by Marie-Eve Bouillon
Exciting sound art festival, Montreuil
The first deambulatory sound art event “FESTIVAL D’EXPÉRIMENTATIONS SONORES” takes place in Montreuil, France, with performances in unusual places such as a whig workshop, a van, a hairdresser’s saloon, an elevator. MTBF will team up with guitar magician Cyril Touzé for a musical exploration of the earth’s stratigraphy.
http://www.myspace.com/circuitsonore
07.12.2008
Live Performance at le CUBE – Sublime Sonus 2 (with theconcatenator)
http://www.lesiteducube.com/site/breve.php?id=413 Après le succès du premier rendez-vous de Sublime Sonus : à la découverte de la musique électroacoustique, proposé par Roland Cahen en mars 2008 au Cube, prolongez l’exploration passionnante de ce genre musical en découvrant quatres grands noms de la musique électroacoustique qui interprèteront quelques unes de leurs œuvres. theconcatenator présenteront un live audio-visuel improvisé, Christian Zanési jouera sur différents dispositifs une version live de 2006, l’aube rouge. Xavier Garcia, aux claviers, présentera Solo, performance improvisée selon le lieu, la circonstance, la pression de l’air et la température ambiante. Enfin, Marco Marini jouera une nouvelle pièce sur Piège à Rêve, l’instrument textile de Maurin Donneau
Venue: le CUBE – Sublime Sonus 2 (with theconcatenator) , 20, Cours Saint Vincent, 92130 Issy-les-moulineaux , Paris, Ile-de-France 92130 , FR
24.10.2008
Silver Sounds Exhibition with MTBF soundscape wins award
See the exhibition’s site at http://www.naughtongallery.org/silversounds.
The exhibition is unique because visitors can ‘hear’ as well as see the University’s silver collection, through using handheld computers to highlight objects and listen to the artists’ interpretations. Ten internationally renowned sound artists created sound pieces to accompany 22 of the silver objects, exploring their origins and the reasons for their creation and use. Read the rest of this entry »
Trowel and Seal Silver Sounds exhibition soundscape, Naughton Gallery, QUB, Belfast
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This composition was commissioned by Queens University, Belfast, for the QUB Silver Collection soundscapes project, a permanent exhibition at QUB’s Naughton Gallery that presents the universities rich silver collection in a setting where each piece is accompanied by a soundscape, commissioned from one of ten internationally renowned sound artists. These soundscapes respond to the provenance of a particular piece of silverware and explore the reasons for its creation, donation and use and combine with the silver objects to create a new immersive artwork.
The exhibition won the 2008 Times Higher Education Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts.
The soundscape for the two exhibition objects Presentation Seal and Trowel (1896) is based on the re-contextualisation of sounds stemming from the life cycle and environment of the exposed objects: their creation, their materiality, their usage, and the concepts and entities they refer to. These sounds are re-contextualised into a soundscape according to their sonic characteristics by corpus-based synthesis, creating a reminiscence of the objects’ presence in its multiple facets, a sort of sonic cubism.
Live Performance at Agence XP
see http://www.leplacard.org/2007/Placardée l’agence XP ::: 12:00 (CEST) .Mean Time Between Failure. – .improvisation + decontextualisation. – .mtbf solo with drones, bidules et field recordings. .12:30 (CEST) .ring sax modulator. – .Etienne Brunet. – .longue traine roll & catenary samba. .13:00 (CEST) .Diemo Schwarz + Etienne Brunet. – .improvisation + recontextualisation. – - .MTBF invite Etienne Brunet pour un Bass corpus clarinet concatenative free drone, ou l’inverse.
Venue: Agence XP , 15 rue de l’aude , Paris 14e, , FR
27.07.2007
Live Performance at placard 10, la generale en manufacture
27.07.2007
Live Performance at Placard 2007
le placard headphone festival http://leplacard.org/2007/placard%20X%20paris/
Venue: 6 grande rue , Sevres, Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France , FR
19.12.2006
Rien du tout Performance at Live Algorithms for Music Conference, London
Concert 2: New Computer Music by LAM Network members
Performance “Rien du tout” with Diemo Schwarz and Sam Britton using real time concatenative synthesis:
Drawing on compositional models proposed by John Cage and Luc Ferrari, we assert that it is possible, through a process of re-composition to record environmental sounds and interpret and contextualise them into a musical framework. We propose to demonstrate the possibilities of such an approach by using the CataRT corpus based concatenative synthesis engine as a tool for real-time analysis and catagorisation of recorded sound whilst simultaneously affecting a process of re-synthesis using specific compositional strategies and techniques. We will present various derivatives of this approach in a performance scenario where the emphasis will be based on capturing sound events in real-time using microphones and processing these recordings using CataRT. During the duration of the performance we hope to be able to start with nothing at all (Rien de tout) and by recording and re-composing environmental sound, evolve a musical structure by tracing a non-linear path through the increasing corpus of recorded sound and thereby orchestrating a counter-point to our own linear perception of time. Our aim is to construct a compositional framework from any given source material that may be interpreted as being musical by virtue of the fact that it’s parts have been intelligently re-arranged according to specific sonic and temporal criteria.
2 – 4 pm Venue: <i>Great Hall</i>, Goldsmith’s University , New Cross, London , UK
18.12.2006
Live Performance with George Lewis and Evan Parker, London
Performance with George Lewis and Evan Parker at the LAM Conference for Live Algorithms for Music:
Concert 1: George Lewis, Evan Parker and friends with Voyager and other live algorithms
The concert will feature the Voyager system and experiments with computer systems developed by LAM network members.
7.30 pm Venue: Great Hall, Goldsmiths College £10(£6) , New Cross, London , UK
06.08.2006
placard #9 headphone festival, Paris
noise ambient drone field recordings mechanical toys contact mike surface scrape electronics patch corpus-based concatenative exploration mean time between failures.
MTBF + guest live at the placard #9 festival, La Générale, Paris. Some audience noises picked up by the contact mic on the autoharp.
Diemo Schwarz (as MTBF): autoharp, wind-up toys, e- and a-bow, Max/MSP, cataRT;
Guillaume Boutard (guest): drone guitar
08.02.2006
Live at Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Belfast
Live at Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Belfast, with Belfast electronic improvisers
05.09.2005
Off-ICMC concert, Barcelona
MTBF live at the Off-ICMC festival alongside the International Computer Music Conference, Metropol, Barcelona
Diemo Schwarz: contact mic, wind-up toys, various field recordings, Max/MSP, cataRT
07.07.2005
placard #8 headphone festival, Paris
MTBF solo live at the placard #8 headphone and streaming festival, gallery Glassbox, Paris.
Diemo Schwarz: inverse stylophone, wind-up toys, Nutella surprise egg shaker, various field recordings, jMax, all clicks and bugs intentional: MTBF = 0.42 seconds.
19.10.2004
Live concert for the launch of the Creative Commons License in France, Maison des Métallos, Paris
Live concert for the launch of the Creative Commons License in France at Ars Longa in the Maison des Métallos, Paris
21.06.2004
Live concert at Fête de la Musique Libre, Paris
Live concert at the Fête de la Musique Libre, Paris, a free and open source software event organised by the April association.
01.05.2004
Live concert at the Linux Sound Night, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Live concert at the Linux Sound Night on the 2nd International Linux Audio Conference in the ZKM, Karlsruhe
Electro-Mechanical Ambience is a live set of 30-45 minutes. It was performed two times before, first in 2001 at the Buro Placard #4 72h non-stop headphone festival, streamed between Paris and Vienna, and second in 2003 at the Reseaunances streaming concerts, an alternative (viral) event to Ircam’s host festival Resonances in Paris. Read the rest of this entry »
20.10.2003
Live concert at the Réseaunances off festival, Ircam, Paris
Live concert at the Réseaunances streaming off festival to Resonances 2003 at Ircam, Paris
Roland analog vocoder, jMax, Boss Digital Delay, inversed Stylophone
28.07.2001
büro placard #4 headphone festival, Paris
Rabbits|Sorrow vs. MTBF live at the büro placard #4 festival.
Sebastien Roux (as Rabbits|Sorrow): guitar, e-bow, effects;
Diemo Schwarz (as MTBF): minidisc, effects, analogue synthesizer, stylophone, drum computer
First public appearance of MTBF.
03.05.1997
Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
Some time in 1997, at the first Noise Transmission Festival in Aachen, Germany, invention of the name Mean Time Between Failure for Diemo Schwarz’s musical project exploring the errors and artefacts in digital sound.