A PROPOS D'EVOL

EVOL is a computer music cell started in 1996. At the core of the project is Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, a musician and composer living and working in Barcelona. Occasional EVOL members and/or collaborators include Aarhus-based sound artist Rubén Patiño, Danish composer and multi-instrumentist Jakob Draminsky Højmark, English sound artist Joe Gilmore, Spanish writer and sound artist Anna María Ramos, English video artist Andy Davies, and Scottish sound artist Joel Ongthorne. Their work has been released on internationally acclaimed record labels such as Mego, Entr'acte, Lucky Kitchen, Diskono, Scarcelight, Antifrost, fals.ch or their own ALKU.

In 2003 the group started a series of electroacoustic pieces entitled 'Punani' which addresses some of the main aspects of their work, namely: algorithmic composition, noise, psychedelia, system trajectories and the musical application of fractal geometry and other mathematical phenomena, somewhere in between Denis Smalley's concept of "spectromorphology" and what Agostino Di Scipio called "functional iteration synthesis". The series has six parts so far. Future releases of the Punani series will appear on Entr'acte (UK), Presto!? (Italy), Raw Special Effects (USA), Interstice (UK), and ALKU (ES)

Recent works include "A Very Short Proof Of Foresters Rigidity Result" (a generative audio piece by Mark Fell & Roc Jiménez de Cisneros for Matthew Ritchie's The Morning Line anti-pavillion as part of the 3rd International Art Biennial of Seville), "Punani Rubberist" (CD on London-based label Entr'acte), and a trilogy of cassette releases in collaboraton with Mark Fell, released on ALKU. Roc was recently a resident at the Music Research Centre in the University of York in the New Aesthetics in Computer Music Research Programme. He also teaches Pure Data programming and generative music in Barcelona.

A PROPOS DE PATO

Rubén Patiño aka Pato is a sound artist born in Barcelona in 1979. He is currently doing a Bachelor in Electronic Music at DIEM, The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark. His work is a blend of loud algorithmic composition with humorous stochastic flavour and political commitment. Mainly all his sound works are free to download and released in different net labels. Pato´s latest CD on Mattin's label Free Software Series is a good example of home made harsh computer music and tolerant neighbours.

He has perfomed several solo performances in Spain, France and Germany and played in festivals like Zeppelin 2005, MEM 2007 and Transmediale 2006. As well as live improvisations with tabletop guitarrist Olivier Di Placido and occasional collaborations inside EVOL, a computer music cell leaded by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros.

Also as a DJ, his sets are mainly composed of multi-layered cut-up computer music mixed with some old avant-garde classics, noise and commercial music.

Between 2004 to 2006, he was involved in drunk radio shows on burn.fm, streaming live performances during events like Dorkbot Berlin and weird net projects such as racapapu.net. For the last tree years (2005-2008) Pato has been been living in Berlin, being very active in the local experimental/noise scene where he has played and organized noise events like "Black Trash".

Site Pato ----> http://myspace.com/patooo