A recording I made in 2001 for Fällts Invisible Cities series of portraits of the world’s cities painted with sound.

“It was raining outside. I mounted the microphones into an umbrella, took a little walk, came back and heard a perfect track coming from my speakers.”

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Berlin, Falkensee

Virginals

I’m looking forward to present an extended version of Alvin Luciers Music with Magnetic Strings during the SFEMFs eleventh edition

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September 11.2010

SFEMF 2010

at
Brava Theater Center
2781 / 24th Street
San Francisco

Virginals

A Solo Recital of contemporary classics performed on the Octave Virginals, Vox Continental Organ and Tapedecks

Alvin Lucier. Music With Magnetic Strings

Version for amplified Virginals and Electromagnets

Francisco Lopez. Untitled #92

Special version for Cassette Recordings of Mechanical Gramophones and Equalizer (Premiere)

Charlemagne Palestine. Schlongo!!

Version for Vox Continental Organ (Premiere)

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September 09.2010

Echtzeitmusiktage 2010

at
Sophiensæle
Sophienstrasse 18
10178 Berlin-Mitte

«You are
the only one
can ride that horse
th’yonder»

The wonderful Häpna label is back after a break, offering their first sale ever.

You will find my On Tape CD there and I highly recommend to get copies of H.4 Sheriff, H.19 Pita + and H.28 Giuseppe Ielasi.

Brilliant stuff.

I have updated the Releases section with infos and reviews for each item, as well as 728mb of soundfiles.

Please click to visit.

Here are two radio shows by John Twells (aka Xela) on Type, both featuring tracks of mine among many others.
Enjoy*

I.
“Type Radio June 09”

Listen or Download

II.
“Type Radio August 09”

Listen or Download

“The Kapotte Muziek By… series is a project setup by Frans De Waard, Roel Meelkop and Peter Duimelinks, who pass on archival material from their Kapotte Muziek collaboration to a number of leading of contemporary artists for reworking. This time Stephan Mathieu takes the helm, serving up a twenty-one minute piece exploring some of the more extreme timbres you could yank from a computer’s hard drive. Billed with no small amount of irony, ‘A Microsound Fairytale’ is a crisp and precision-crafted beast, manifesting itself as a spluttering rainbow of digital noise that’s more comparable to work by the likes of Florian Hecker and Russell Haswell than the more customary blissful electroacoustic pieces we’ve become accustomed to from this artist. It only goes to confirm Mathieu’s brilliance as a sound designer/engineer and composer that despite the fairly radical shift in musical style he still manages to mix with the very finest in the field. Extreme stuff, but there’s no malevolence behind this onslaught and there’s still something essentially very beautiful about it all.”

Boomkat #307

I have created a dedicated page for Constellations with a project introduction, a new video and booking infos.
Please click to visit.

Planetarium dome at CosmoCaixa Science Park, Barcelona

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A short Question & Answer with Emøke

Constellations

Created especially for the Cosmocaixa Planetarium, Constellations is an audiovisual project by Stephan Mathieu and Caro Mikalef inspired by the music of Antonio de Cabezón, one of the most important Renaissance composers of keyboard music, who was born 500 years ago this year. The roots of the project lie in Stephan Mathieus Virginals series, a set of contemporary works performed with historic media and early instruments.

For Constellations, Mathieu and Mikalef will utilize electromagnets to set the strings of a harpsichord into continuous vibration. By expanding the natural sound of the instrument using magnetic fields, the resonating strings generate harmonically rich sonorities that gradually fill the planetarium space with overtonal patterns.

To frame the piece with a prelude and coda, harpsichordist Carles Budó will perform special interpretations of original music by Antonio de Cabezón (who composed by applying theories of astronomy) on a second instrument, creating a dialogue between the work of the Renaissance composer and Stephan Mathieu and Caro Mikalef’s take on sound.

Another protagonist of the performance is a slowly spinning, purpose built mobile, constructed with optical lenses, mirrors, color filters and metal discs, which projects, illuminated by HMI spotlights, a series of subtle light forms onto the planetarium dome. Spectral light, reflections and shadows will constantly reconfigure, alluding to the constellations that give the piece its name.

The mobile is created with generous support by Carl Zeiss.

Curated by Arnau Horta i Sellarès

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June 17. 18. + 19.2010

SONAR 2010

CosmoCaixa Science Park
C Isaac Newton, 26
Barcelona
Spain

A one minute video for the Constellations project with Caro Mikalef

Play »

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June 17. 18. + 19.2010

SONAR 2010

CosmoCaixa Science Park
C Isaac Newton, 26
Barcelona
Spain

Simmer some fresh top and tailed rosehip gently in 4x the amount of water for 15 minutes
sift
add some honey, Bunny
and enjoy while it’s hot

Music for Columbia Phonoharp and Computer
and realtime generated video by Claudio Sinatti

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May 28.2010

SMART Project Space
Arie Biemondstraat 111
1054 PD Amsterdam
The Netherlands