A quick mix from the best moments of a 1h30 minutes live improvisation I did for an opening exhibition of the artist Karine Turcot. Her work was based on birds pictures and the general idea was to play with birds material and songs. This is my first real live experience with Ableton Live. I'm playing prepared birds sounds, analog modular synths, a Senza with contact mic, and Animoog. 
No time to prepare... but had fun anyway.
The Fous de Bassan/Northern Gannet groove (around min 17) is still stuck in my head.. 




Bird Eees_Silvano Mercado_ Live at Karine Turcot opening exhibition

Old Latin pop tracks I found in my Mac's attic...
Performed and recorded in 2002 in my first home studio when I use to play in the family band "Mercado" with my brother. Good times !
 

Silvano Mercado  Tus Ojos 2002

Silvano Mercado  Borrandose 2002

Silvano Mercado Demo Reel 2014  Film Indie Anim

Silvano Mercado Demo Reel 2014  Add Pub

This is a rough recording of a live performance I did in Katmandu in April 2016. After 5 months travelling and recording sounds in Nepal\India I came back to Ktm where Vincent Greby (painter/photographer) asked me if I could play something for his exhibition. Instead of just playing some compositions already made, I decided that it would be much more fun to do something based on my recordings and directly linked to his work and subject, the multiple layers of life in Nepal.  Due to the short time, this was done in probably 2 and half full days of work, in the perfect house, with almost full time electricity (!!). I used Ableton Live, few of old field recordings from previous trips, DM1 Synth and Animoog (iPad Apps).
The recording was taken on the day of the performance, directly from my soundcard output, unmixed, unmasterised, it is as rough as the composition is. 
I see it as a base sketch for a bigger and more structured sound piece I'm going to prepare in the coming months.    

Nepali Sound Voyage - Live at Yellow House KTM - Vincent Greby Opening

This is a song I composed and interpreted about 10 years ago when I was still performing live. The basis of this song were laid during a monthly afternoon creation meeting with the "Bretzel A" collective. The idea was to gather a bunch of film makers and artists, and have some creative and productive fun time in a few hours. I quickly found a chord progression then recorded it next the camera mic while watching footages. Later on I decided to go further and make it a song.       

Flower Song

2 versions of the track made for a corporate advertising & phone music - Always fun to see the difference between the artistic director's choice and the version that made the cut.

K10 - AD choice

K.10 - Def version

A theme that I wrote for "Hidden Records" [wrote by Douglas Buck] It' was part of the "The Tales from Beyond The Pale" Season 4 and a live radio performance done the "old fashion way", actors & foleys live on stage, at the Montreal Fantasia Festival. It's part of a bigger story telling piece that you can find here : http://talesfrombeyondthepale.com/tales/season-4/hidden-records/

Silvano Mercado Vilches

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