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ARTIST BIO

Ape5 is active since 2001 both like VJ and video-artist basing his performances on the research and experimentation of real-time video, interested in the interaction between arts and video and in the experimentation of glitch aesthetics of the sound. He has taken part and has used his videos in many projects working with international artists all belonging to different spheres, from djing to theatre, from visual arts to dance. He has counted his performances to be over 300 live- sets and screenings of his work have been shown in many different International Contemporary Art and Electronic Culture Festivals (Italy, Spain, Austria, Holland, Germany, France, Mexico, China, Japan…) In 2005 he established vidauxs.net one of the first net labels that focus on real-time audio-video interaction. Lately he is into building audio-video controller that use open-source hardware. [ www.ape5.it ] Matteo de Ruggieri using the pseudonym of EraSer has given birth to his own electronic experimental project trough the art of circuit bending, exclusively playing with toys and musical instruments transformed by him, creating though glitch and lo-fi electronic sounds on an intense melodic basis. As artist and circuit bender, he has set up circuitbend.it the first Italian web-site based on this art, has modified musical toys for other International musicians and has realized interviews, lectures and workshops on this topic (the last one he made was for the TV channel All- Music). Recently he has performed for the DIY Festival in Zurich together with the gurus of hardware hacking, for international festivals of contemporary and electronic music like Time Zones and as the only Italian artist for the Minneapolis and New York Bent Festival. [ www.myspace.com/mydataeraser ]

PERFORMANCE TEXT

“Future sounds like past toys” was born by the collaboration of two major artists, that is the musician and circuit-bender EraSer and the video-artist and vj ape5, and it is based on the concept that contemporary music and the music of the future “sounds like” past toys. The project goes back and begins with the experimentation of sound through modification, errors, “bending” of toys, and focuses on their audio-visualization trough glitch aesthetics, creating a digital analogical dialogue (dianalog) between video and audio, exactly between “past toys” and “new toys”. The audio part of the project avails itself of the art of circuit bending performed by the artist EraSer using toys turned into musical instruments that interact, through micro-controllers and electro-acoustic analysis, with a video-synthesis hardware/software and self-made controller by ape5.