The Nyco Project
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The Nyco Project STATEMENT We’re independent artists weaving grit-pop, alt-torch, blues rock and psychedelia into interactive video-collages. With our band, The Nyco Project, we experiment with our recording process and explore the concept of a song as a collage by filming the individual original live-performances of each sound and then bring them together into one scene. We’re opening a window for a closer look to the singularities that make the whole and see the actual stories behind our sounds. We wondered what would provide texture to a digital release? Why are most interactive videos meaningless? Can we bring the recording process into the picture? The New Machine EP series are some of our channels for exploring these questions. We record and film each performance in different locations with our mobile recording equipment. Our recording process is free from the restrictions of the studio. By filming and capturing the instruments on location the sounds of the landscape also become part of the piece: the passing rumble of a plane, the fall of the snow on a microphone, singing birds in the forest, the carrying groove of an old train, etc. Rather than trying to clean them out, these sounds are integrated in the piece. It’s a very organic process that brings a grit to our songs which we love. Finally, the songs become interactively deconstructable and are released in EP form, in sets of video-collages to enter a process of exploration of songs unavailable until now, with the ability to isolate visually and aurally the individual sounds’ sources. To deconstruct/reconstruct our songs go HERE For the linear video files go HERE BIO Based in London, The Nyco Project is an artistic band with Zahara Muñoz-Vicens and Ben Hardy at the core. These independent artists with a background in music production, philosophy, gestalt and mime have been exploring the concept of music as a sonic collage and experimenting with filmed original live-performance since 2010. In 2013, with the support of Arts Council England, they released their first interactive EP for mobile, “The New Machine”, with three deconstructable video-collages. The Barbican included them in their CultureTech talks on Technology and The Performing Arts and, by 2014, the work and team extended to transform themselves and hundreds of other filmings of musicians, turntabilists, beatboxers, percussive dancers, vocalists, spoken word artists and every day sounds into the notes of a loop-based audio-visual interactive instrument called Musicjelly, exhibiting at the Barbican Centre in their Weekender “Technology for self-expression”. The installation extended further with commissions from RBKC, exhibiting at inTRANSIT Festival, Reverb Festival at the Roundhouse, Digitalogue at RichMix, FITCH and inHouse Film Festival amongst others. Their collection of video-loops contains well over a thousand samples. Last year, commissioned by Barbican Guildhall they created an interactive installation with 18 New York Philharmonic musicians. Their deconstructable collages of two excerpts of Beethoven (7th Symphony) and Mozart (Jupiter Symphony) were exhibited during the orchestra’s biennial residency at Barbican Centre in April 2015. Later in 2015, their interactive EP “The New Machine II” with three more deconstructable video-collages went online and further iOS apps under the loop-based Musicjelly Mashup concept released on the app store. They are currently working on “The New Machine III” interactive EP which was shortlisted for the Landmark commissioning of TheSpace.org; and creating a 3D-sampling installation in collaboration with the owners of Tupac’s and Gorillaz’ hologram technology. ARTIST CONTACT [click to email] IMAGES
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