Martin Messier (ca) - in conversation with Martin Bricelj (si)

Martin Bricelj interviews Martin Messier on his influences, music and art before his performance with Sewing Machine Orchestra at MoTA […]

Martin Bricelj interviews Martin Messier on his influences, music and art before his performance with Sewing Machine Orchestra at MoTA Point in Ljubljana.

Martin Messier is a composer, performer and new media artist who explores the relationship between sound and material. His complex sound aesthetics comes from experimental music background, intertwined with uncommon sounds and rhythmic interplays in an endless process of construction and deconstruction. He explores the relationship between sound and material in his staging sound works and pushes the everyday imaginary a little further in his installation works and performances by reinventing the functions of objects. His concerts, sound and audiovisual performances, works in the field of live electronics, music for theatre and contemporary dance were presented on numerous international festivals, such as Mutek (Montreal), Festival TransAmériques (Montreal), Bang on a Can (New York), Transmediale (Berlin) and Sonar (Barcelona).

Martin Bricelj Baraga is an artist and curator, director of MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art. His interactive works, audiovisual performances and collaborative work research the relation between man and machine, social aspects of contemporary popular culture, future monumentalism and political dimensions of mediated realities of today.