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Step into the sonic realm of mockART, my experimental music project that dances to its own beat. Here, in the vibrant landscape, mockART is my venture into uncharted musical territories, where I toss aside conventional patterns in favour of something refreshingly different.
The story of mockART began in the early 2000s when my trusty mobile phone, armed with a less-than-stellar camera, birthed abstract photos that seemed more artistic than accidental. Thus, the term “mockART” was coined. When my foray into music began, it only felt natural for this quirky name to take centre stage.
After navigating through various bands, I realised that my creative voice often got lost in the cacophony of egos. So, in 2005, mockART officially took flight as a solo project. The initial creation, “15 Partes del Mundo,” became a collaborative effort, marking the beginning of a fascinating musical journey.
As the years unfolded, mockART saw the release of albums like “Reflux Ux Bisou,” “ION,” and “Country Songs.” A brief hiatus in 2009 led me into the realms of photography and digital art, but mockART roared back to life in 2018. Enter Christoph Dorner, who joined as a core member in 2020, and together, we embraced the digital landscape during the pandemic, crafting albums like “Men Who Lost Their Heads,” and “views | interrupted.”
Beyond music, I don the hat of a visual artist and the creator of mockART. This project marries my love for experimentation, capturing unconventional sounds, and embracing collaborative creativity. In 2022, mockART’s musical tendrils extended to the exhibition “views | interrupted,” where we crafted a soundtrack interpreting the artworks, receiving acclaim from appreciative audiences.
Looking ahead, mockART envisions projects that weave together various art forms with music. You can find our albums on CD and major streaming platforms like Spotify, iTunes, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music. For a deeper dive into our sonic world, explore Facebook, Bandcamp, YouTube and mockART’s Homepage.
Stay tuned for the symphony of creative collaborations and artistic exploration with mockART, right here on my blog.
While roaming the world, snapping photographs, I also recorded some field recordings which I published on SoundCloud as rabirius.
26 responses to “Music”
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The first sound recording is a Romanian song. I hope that culinary menu of the restaurant was good, as Romanian folk melody! 😀
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Well, it was recorded at a restaurant in Chisinau – and it was the best one I found with local cuisine – so the food was fantastic.
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I really enjoyed listening to these snippets of “life”. Thank you, Rabirius.
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You’re welome – and thank you you for your compliment.
I already uploaded a couple more recordings to SoundCloud.
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This is cool stuff, Rabirius!
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I’m glad you like my field recordings.
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[…] I am starting to get a sense of things that might be,…… […]
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I have included a hyper-link to this page in my recently posted Found Poem.
Field Recordings/ Found Sound are intriguing constructs. It turns aural environment into a kind of multi-layered Found Poetry. There is a whole section of this environmental audio art on archive.org. .
Once again you have created some fascinating work to go with your visual art.
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Thanks a lot!
I haven’t really kept up with uploading more recordings…
…but I still have some waiting to be edited.
Though since changing to windows, I didn’t have time to look for another audio editor – hopefully I’ll do that soon.
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Goldwave is a good editor.
Have you considered taking some of the audio tracks and combining them with your visual compositions ? Just the type of original creative work that gets posted on Vimeo. 🙂
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Okay, thank you, I will take a look at Goldwave.
Actually, I once did something like a video clip to one of my mockART tracks:
I haven’t looked at it for quite some time and I just noticed that it already is 10 years old and the resolution is not very good. I guess back then high resolution was not needed on YouTube. 🙂
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That was very intriguing. You may find Walter Smith’s blog of interest. He has been doing digital video work that has similar elements to your piece.
n e w d i g i t a l s c a p e s https://walterwsmith.wordpress.com/
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Thanks you. I will look at Walter’s site.
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You know a lotIt’s special.
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Thank you.
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Interessante Musik!
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Ja, vielen Dank.
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Ich konnte leider nur reinhören, mehr Zeit blieb mir nicht. Wie so oft.
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Sie läuft ja nicht weg. 🙂
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Your tracks are reminiscent of David Lynch’s music output
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That is a huge compliment. Thank you, Javier.
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[…] you visited the website recently there was not much information, mainly a link to the sound section of rabirius.eu. However, I have decided now to create a proper homepage for mockART again. First I thought I hide […]
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