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A live musical conversation between Earth Reeves on vocals and Mute State on guitar/electronics
Picturesque downtempo created in the here and now with a guitar, a sampler, and a billion guitar pedals looped and tweaked beyond recognition. With focus on curiosity and playfulness, Mute State aka jazz guitarist Tao Hojgaard creates soundscapes and lush electronic music in real time. Dusty soundscapes, crackling textures, and melodic fragments meets subtle “subby” bass lines in an improvisational expression morphing along as one continuos nonlinear storyline. The instrument is comprised of cleverly interconnected loop machines and guitar pedals which with their advantages and limitations inspire to explore new musical paths.

"My aim is to create nonlinear music, or movement without movement if you will. Imagine you are looking at the surface of a pond, firstly you might look at your own reflection after a while you notice the reflections of the clouds you dwell at their shapes and movement behind you – now you shift your focus to the surface itself with all it´s rippling activity a leaf might come sailing by, eventually your gaze will penetrate the surface, now you might be looking at the bottom, noticing the sandy texture, the movement of plants etc, non of these elements ever seizes but are constantly in effect and in constant relation to each other – were you there experiencing this microcosmos with someone, his or hers experience would be different from yours, not in terms of taste and preference because those will be irrelevant, but in the order and nature of what caught your attention and what you brought into this environment yourself. I have wet dreams about achieving this in my music, and that is what the Mute State project is about." Tao Hojgaard aka Mute State
www.mutestate.com

Everything Shall Pass

Remembering days sitting on the jetty next to Hoddle St Bridge after many parties.

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Moody Snippet

Sneaky Snippet

When soul meets jazz and electronic music in live action

Soulful Snippet

"Jeg producerer næsten alt i realtime. Det er måske et levn fra min jazzbaggrund, men jeg har en ufravigelig idé om at det håndholdte med alle sine imperfections i udgangspunktet er tættere på perfektion end step-edit programmeringer nogensinde kan blive."

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Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mutestate
Bandcamp: https://mutestate.bandcamp.com/

ep 2 - Mød Tao

I denne special-episode kommer du helt tæt på Tao aka. Mute State og hans fascinerende musiske oversættelse af Det Periodiske System:

"Det har været en fantastisk lærerig proces, sådan at oversætte kemiske regler og fænomener til musikkens ditto. 
Alle rytmer er direkte oversættelser af den måde elektroner fylder atom-skaller på. Helt basic forklaret, så repræsenterer hver atom-skal en lyd, antallet af elektroner i bemeldte skal bestemmer hvor mange gange lyden skal trigges per takt, og Paulis eksklusionsprincip bestemmer hvor slagene skal ligge i forhold til hinanden.

Værket som helhed er en lang gennemspilning af det periodiske system med fire takter af hvert atom, fra hydrogens ene elektron/slag per takt til Oganessons imponerende 118 elektroner/slag per takt. En kontinuerligt voksende kompleksitet, der intuitivt illustrerer atomers fascinerende urværk."

Link til The Periodic Table Arranged for Guitar and Sampler pre-release on bandcamp: https://mutestate.bandcamp.com/track/the-periodic-table-arranged-for-guitar-and-sampler

YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/mutestatevideo
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mutestate/
Insta: www.instagram.com/mute_state/
Soundcloud: @mutestate
Bandcamp: mutestate.bandcamp.com/

ep 10 - Det periodiske system oversat til musik

Taking the art of jazz guitar to the frontier, Tao uses a variety of effect pedals and loop machines to build robust, droning soundscapes. All sounds are initiated by the guitar and tweaked in real time with electronic devices. No preprogramming or slick computer-tricks. An expansion of the guitar - the instrument and a showcase that “knobs tweaking” can be a very expressional instrument in its own right.

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