Entre Temps Perdus is an album and listening experience by musician and transmission artist Martín Rodríguez. This project began as exploratory sessions with choreographer/dancer Corinne Crane, examining the stretching of a single moment in time, creating a space between contemplation and movement. These sessions began prior to the pandemic, but gained weight once the realities of the global health crisis took hold.

From these initial experiments, Rodríguez developed an instrument using live radio broadcasts, a theremin, and a single cymbal. Exploring time, movement, and resonance, the result is an unveiling of harmonies and textures tucked away between broadcast and cymbal.

This unconventional instrument creates music that can be described as Ambient Electroacoustics. Entre Temps Perdus further implores the use of field recordings taken as Rodríguez observed a new-found silence emerging out of Montréal’s urban spaces during the early days of the pandemic.
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released April 16, 2021

Mixed by Martín Rodríguez and monsieur_b
Mastered by Sébastien Fournier
Album cover photo by José Garcia-Lozano

Field recordings taken during March - June 2020 in Montréal, QC
All other sounds produced and performed utilizing cymbal, shortwave radio, transducer, theremin modular synth, and amplifiers except une grande onde which uses a prepared electric guitar.

Temps Perdu

Une Grande Onde

Des Cloches À La Solidarité

Épuiser

À La Rencontre Du Silence

Aural Histories - 2022
Three audio recordings for automated answering machine
Duration 2:32
Commissioned by Jean-Francois Prost and in collaboration with SKOL centre des arts actuels, the project Chantier an artistic, political and social investigation of the conceptualization and creation of a large display device situated on a vacant lot at 6919 Marconi in Montréal. 
Aural Histories proposes a sound meditation as an automated answering system. When curious callers dial the number on the billboard they are directed to one of three audio recordings in either French, English, or Spanish. The callers are met by a voice that guides them through a sonic reflection on the history of the space they are currently inhabiting and asks listeners to consider their engagement with the space and history of the location they are inhabiting.

Aural History FR

Aural History ESP

Aural History ENG

layered recording of Ehecatl including the 5 separate recordings in one audio file

Ehecatl (tiemporalities)

a live performance using two micro fm transmitters, two mp3 players, and various FM radios all tuned to the same frequency

Mircro FM performance

Mobile users want better video calls, streaming television and faster downloads, all of which utilize the radio spectrum. As a result, more of the radio bandwidth is being allocated for commercial gain, placing more demands on the limited radio spectrum available. FM Mutiny simultaneously repurposes the entire FM-band in rapid succession revealing the saturation of information that constantly solicits our attention while creating an ephemeral portrait of the current radio spectrum. The creative re-allocation of these frequencies is an act of defiance that destructs the content of the broadcast while empowering the listeners to take control of the radio space.

Martín Rodríguez

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