The Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien
The Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien documents a bewildering duet between the peerless, eccentric French instrument builder and one of his creations, ‘The Mecanium’, recorded live at Studio M - the historic studio-concert hall of Radio-Television of Vojvodina, Serbia.
Bastien plays kundi, rubber band, prepared trumpet, video loops, nail violin and râbab, while the Mecanium - an ensemble of musical automatons constructed from meccano parts and activated by electro-motors - ‘plays’ amplified meccano parts, drums, reeds, rubber bands, paper, nails and flutes.
The results sound like the future when machines have taken over and start getting all nostalgic for their human ancestors/programmers by imitating tribal rituals and free jazz performances while sipping battery fuel from reclaimed jam jars.
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The Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien documents a bewildering duet between the peerless, eccentric French instrument builder and one of his creations, ‘The Mecanium’, recorded live at Studio M - the historic studio-concert hall of Radio-Television of Vojvodina, Serbia.
Bastien plays kundi, rubber band, prepared trumpet, video loops, nail violin and râbab, while the Mecanium - an ensemble of musical automatons constructed from meccano parts and activated by electro-motors - ‘plays’ amplified meccano parts, drums, reeds, rubber bands, paper, nails and flutes.
The results sound like the future when machines have taken over and start getting all nostalgic for their human ancestors/programmers by imitating tribal rituals and free jazz performances while sipping battery fuel from reclaimed jam jars.
The Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien documents a bewildering duet between the peerless, eccentric French instrument builder and one of his creations, ‘The Mecanium’, recorded live at Studio M - the historic studio-concert hall of Radio-Television of Vojvodina, Serbia.
Bastien plays kundi, rubber band, prepared trumpet, video loops, nail violin and râbab, while the Mecanium - an ensemble of musical automatons constructed from meccano parts and activated by electro-motors - ‘plays’ amplified meccano parts, drums, reeds, rubber bands, paper, nails and flutes.
The results sound like the future when machines have taken over and start getting all nostalgic for their human ancestors/programmers by imitating tribal rituals and free jazz performances while sipping battery fuel from reclaimed jam jars.
The Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien documents a bewildering duet between the peerless, eccentric French instrument builder and one of his creations, ‘The Mecanium’, recorded live at Studio M - the historic studio-concert hall of Radio-Television of Vojvodina, Serbia.
Bastien plays kundi, rubber band, prepared trumpet, video loops, nail violin and râbab, while the Mecanium - an ensemble of musical automatons constructed from meccano parts and activated by electro-motors - ‘plays’ amplified meccano parts, drums, reeds, rubber bands, paper, nails and flutes.
The results sound like the future when machines have taken over and start getting all nostalgic for their human ancestors/programmers by imitating tribal rituals and free jazz performances while sipping battery fuel from reclaimed jam jars.
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The Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien documents a bewildering duet between the peerless, eccentric French instrument builder and one of his creations, ‘The Mecanium’, recorded live at Studio M - the historic studio-concert hall of Radio-Television of Vojvodina, Serbia.
Bastien plays kundi, rubber band, prepared trumpet, video loops, nail violin and râbab, while the Mecanium - an ensemble of musical automatons constructed from meccano parts and activated by electro-motors - ‘plays’ amplified meccano parts, drums, reeds, rubber bands, paper, nails and flutes.
The results sound like the future when machines have taken over and start getting all nostalgic for their human ancestors/programmers by imitating tribal rituals and free jazz performances while sipping battery fuel from reclaimed jam jars.