A Machine (04:57)
by Rodrigo Constanzo

Alan Turing, and his work as a cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientist, was the thematic inspiration for A Machine. Using the idea of encryption and decryption as a starting point, I collected files relating to Alan Turing that ranged from academic papers and personal letters, to photographs and biographical texts. The files were processed in a number of ways, including optical character recognition and en-masse concatenation. This was done in order to make them suitable for sonification--the process by which the data within the files was converted in to audio. 

Additionally, some software tools were developed to dynamically and variably compress audio, using psychoacoustic analysis in much the same way mp3 compression works. The compression was used as a processing/sculpting effect as well as a structural and form bearing mechanism. 
 
The use of field recordings is minimal, with the field recordings being used primarily to frame the electronic sounds. They provide a reference point from our reality for the rest of the work to juxtapose against. 

A Machine

All mixes featured on Soundcloud (and more) are available to download at http://www.1bpm.net/?mix


Slumberjack is an online music label specialising in unusually low tempo and complex sounds rooted somewhere in techno - breaching typically club sounds into a concentrated medium for meticulous home listeners and dancefloor aficionados alike.

There are a number self-assembling tracks due for release via the label. These releases are assembled on-the-fly when downloaded from the Slumberjack webpage, and put together in accordance with a set of rules/probabilities - so each time a track is downloaded, it's different.


Slumberjack Records' releases are scheduled for every two months, and are available via most common online outlets in addition to direct from our website (1bpm.net).
Self-assembling tracks are exclusive to the Slumberjack website and can not be dynamically obtained elsewhere.

Some exclusive free tracks are also available via the Slumberjack website and Soundcloud.

Ben Nigel Potts is an artist exploring the relationship between sound and sculpture through installation art. His work removes sound from the musical context and explores space, physicality, audience participation / interactivity, algorithmic generation and extreme minimalism/simplicity. His works are characterised by their intense physical effects created by auditory distortions (distortion product otoacoustic emissions) and the invitation to the audience to form their own individual experience through space and movement. 

Oscar Santis was born in Santiago of Chile on September 22, 1969.
He is a sculptor, painter and noise musician.
He did studies of architecture and simultaneously he worked as assistant at the workshop of the sculptor Claudio Girola.
In 1990 he made his first sculptures working with welded bronze initially and later plexiglass, metal ensembles and iron. 
From 2000 he begins to experiment with sounds and music generated by computers, taking part in different projects and bands. He formed the netlabel collective Amencoma. His work has been edited by his own label, Biodata, Jacobinodiscos and Pueblo Nuevo.

Rodrigo Constanzo is a performer and composer living in Manchester, England.  He is an avid improviser and performs regularly using home made electro acoustic, and modified electronic instruments. He is currently working towards a PhD in Composition at the University of Huddersfield and co-runs The Noise Upstairs, an improv collective and label which puts on monthly nights and quarterly workshops in Manchester.

He lives in Manchester with his partner, artist Angela Guyton.

https://selman.bandcamp.com/releases

https://soundcloud.com/goutnoise