Mean Time Between Failure
post-glitch electronica, field recordings, improvised soundscapes, interactive corpus-based synthesis.
Go to http://myspace.com/xmtbf to listen.
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.
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.