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Mark Cooley is an audio-visual artist interested in new genre and forms of art making. Mark’s early interests in improvisational music and stream of consciousness writing peeked with his founding involvement in Verbs, an experimental trio exploring the boundaries of Jazz and Rock forms in a highly improvisational format. After the disbanding of Verbs, Mark focused much of his energies studying various folk music from around the world, particularly, finger picking guitar styles from early%20th century America. More recently, Mark’s interests have grown to embrace composition, audio engineering and soundtrack production. Mark has presented and performed his audio works, either as solo works or in the context of video and installation, at various international exhibitions and festivals including Immedia: Annual Digital Arts Exhibition and NWEAMO: Annual International Electroacoustic Music Festival. And in addition to self produced cd’s, Mark has recently been included on Electroshock Presents: “Electroacoustic Music. Vol. IX” - 2004. (Electro-shock Records ELCD 044) compiled and produced by Artemiy Artemiev. http://www.electroshock.ru/
Mark’s use of instruments and software reflect an interest in hybrid forms of music and art making with a decidedly DIY approach. Mark often combines musical genres and recording technologies and methods that would be frowned upon by “industry professionals” who are guided by efficiency and “what’s hot” in a “time is money” atmosphere. Mark is more interested in experimentation and building compositions over time through the process of recording, resampling and remixing.
Soundedit and HyperEngine
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http://art-design.smsu.edu/cooley/files/audio/recomp.html - Recomposition is an ongoing work initially recorded between 2000 and 2001 using free software and available instrumentation. Recomposition continues to be revisited, remixed and resampled. All sound on Recomposition is built from original performances using the instrumentation listed below. There is no sampling of audio material from other sources except the intro to track one which was recorded in the Metro in Paris in 1999.
Recomposition
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