Metroxylon - Beautiful Struggle

Jodi Rose is a nomadic artist, writer, performer and creator of Singing Bridges, an urban sonic sculpture using the cables of bridges as musical instruments on a global scale. She has traversed the globe from Helsinki to the Mekong Delta, New York to Besançon  in her endless quest for bridge music. Made with field-recordings, on-site interventions and improvisations, her fascination with bridge music has led to numerous collaborations with artists around the world. Rose continues to explore the philosophical and musical aspects of cable vibrations through global transmissions and installations; developing a musical interface for model bridge instruments; hosting on-site sonic interventions, and imagines linking bridges all over the world in a Global Bridge Symphony. 

Real name Julian Alvarez was born in Badajoz (Extremadura) an August 23, 1971. The beginnings of Psycographics is at least somewhat peculiar in his childhood began to excel at music lessons taught in school, their first approach to an old piano was in a hostel Barcelona and labyrinth of dark corridors with that peculiar smell old man who gave a grim, dark room with wooden floor, the piano against the wall and two doors leading to rooms in which lived very elderly person. One such person was who opened the music offered for allowing pummel the piano and teaching gradually the concept of rhythm and harmony. A piano Julian said the 8 years innocently called him "the piano of color". After a few years, acquiring its first computer with an Amiga 500 which conducts his first experiments with samplers and compositions at the time was the most logical option without having to make a great void in the almost nonexistent coffers. A few years later acquired its first synthesized a Rolad Juno-6 with which combined with a DSP (Digital Sound Processor) and eventually becomes what would be your tool for testing the legendary favorite Rolad JD-800 which was terribly shocked because múscia began to perceive as more than sound. Julian irreversibly a perceived colors, shapes, images, landscapes, movement in all the music that reached his sensitive ears, the fact can be the same Whoever created these landscapes by the music he found it rewarding. Discover synesthesia itself. Later he discovers that the images that your mind creates the music can be seen just the reverse, which led him to dedicate himself professionally as Video Jockey projections made in most rooms Barca's own concept of time, note, velocity , image, color, instead of creating the music for the image creates image for music and thus is able to show that what you see when listening to music. One glaring example is no less curious and a visit to their website where you can check in real time as explained above. Julian made up for it and keeps doing without trying to take something else, with the difference that many years ago it was unthinkable to share it. 

Visual Psycographics currently produces two of the most important technology brands that are in today. Musically speaking Psycographics immersed in video production "triangle" for the theme song of the same name can be heard on the album track PGS-ONE, as a curiosity that item contains ritmic sub-bass frequencies below 400Herz at two points in time only very noticeable in high-end equipment.

<b>BIOGRAPHY</b> (english)
Metroxylon is a new stage in the music of Barcelona artist Roger Mercader. His relationship with music builds up a long-term musical career, which goes from piano lessons and music theory at 10 and the beginning of do-it-yourself production when contacting for the first time with a personal computer at 12, to several record releases in the house/techno scene along with hundreds of dj sets arround Spain during 8 years.
His 4x4 music basis evolves and adds more flexible sonorities and structures once Metroxylon moves to Berlin in 2008. Due to diverse psychedelic experiences and insights, he looks for deeper meaning in what he does, in order to explore his creativity with no structural or stylistic boundaries.
Metroxylon has found the way to make a creative quantum leap and starting to use his music to a higher purpose. Quoting Bill Hicks "Life is just an illusion and we are the imagination of ourselves". And every illusion needs a good soundtrack.
Metroxylon's first album has been released under Suruba Records indie label and he has remixed Senser's new album track "Hex" and "Miss U" by Don Goliath for Dubstep Division Berlin label. He is also involved in some projects related to audiovisuals and dance: Soundtracks for diverse shortfilms and documentaries and he was part of Instant Delay, a multidisciplinary platform presenting live performances with two videoartists and a dancer at Netaudio Berlin Festival 2009 and Visual Berlin Festival 2010.

Metroxylon has also been involved with cinema and videoart creating soundtracks for catalan directors like Hector Prió or Alex Kozzak. Along with Kozzak they created the experimental short film Sick Howlings from Babylon, which was featured on the International Cinema Festival of Sarajevo and also on the Online Arts Festival.

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