Roth Mobot performing live at the 2010 Midwestern Experimental Electronics Conference and Showcase.

Roth Mobot - MEECAS 2010

This is track #4 from Roth Mobot's first studio recorded album. It's all improvised, and all performed on hacked toys. The full album can be heard at  http://rothmobot.bandcamp.com/album/stations

Transient Activity for Hyperactive Young Neurons

Live improvisation at a book reading at Quimby's in Chicago.

01 Improvisation For Toy Toaster And Circus Train

Chicago's Experimental Sound Studio invited Roth Mobot to one of their fundraisers to demonstrate their approach to music composition on home made experimental electronic devices and circuit bent toys. Alex Inglizian recorded the set. nothing has been altered from the original recording.

LIVE at the ESS

Roth Mobot joined The Experimental Electronics Exposition Midwest Micro Tour when it came through Chicago. The evening's performances were streamed live to the web from the i^3 Hypermedia studio in the Loop. Local artist, Mike Una, recorded the performances.

Instruments include hacked effects pedals, Casio sk-1, a vocaid electronic speech device, and various bent toys.

Hamburger Drive Thru

Roth Mobot joined The Experimental Electronics Exposition Midwest Micro Tour when it came through Chicago. The evening's performances were streamed live to the web from the i^3 Hypermedia studio in the Loop. Local artist, Mike Una, recorded the performances.

Instruments include a synthetic voice paraphrasing from Stephen Hawking's A Brief history of Time, hacked effects pedals, home made electronic kalimba, and various bent toys.

Tower of Tortoises

Roth Mobot joined The Experimental Electronics Exposition Midwest Micro Tour when it came through Chicago. The evening's performances were streamed live to the web from the i^3 Hypermedia studio in the Loop. Local artist, Mike Una, recorded the performances.

Instruments include hacked cassette tape deck, hacked effects pedals, Casio sk-1, and various bent toys.

Reach Out (Disconnect)

Roth Mobot joined The Experimental Electronics Exposition Midwest Micro Tour when it came through Chicago. The evening's performances were streamed live to the web from the i^3 Hypermedia studio in the Loop. Local artist, Mike Una, recorded the performances.

Instruments include an Amiga 600 (trash picked!), hacked effects pedal, Casio sk-1, and various bent toys.

Smile

Roth Mobot joined The Experimental Electronics Exposition Midwest Micro Tour when it came through Chicago. The evening's performances were streamed live to the web from the i^3 Hypermedia studio in the Loop. Local artist, Mike Una, recorded the performances.

Instruments include hacked cassette tape deck, hacked effects pedal, and a bent prayer clock.

Prelude (These Wires Represent Work)

Roth Mobot joined The Experimental Electronics Exposition Midwest Micro Tour when it came through Chicago. The evening's performances were streamed live to the web from the i^3 Hypermedia studio in the Loop. Local artist, Mike Una, recorded the performances.

Instruments include hacked effects pedals, Casio sk-1, and various bent toys.

Flood Alert

Roth Mobot is the Chicago based circuit bent duo of Tommy Stephenson and Patrick McCarthy. Roth Mobot's "recursive jazz" controls the random juxtaposition of improvised dark ambient drones, languid melodies, randomly generated rhythms, percussive accidents, the humorous language of toys, and common discarded electronic audio and video devices. They never play the same piece twice, only rehearse in front of a live audience, and always bring new devices "hot off the workbench" to every gig.

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