Mean Time Between Failure

post-glitch electronica, field recordings, improvised soundscapes, interactive corpus-based synthesis.

Go to http://myspace.com/xmtbf to listen.

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.