21/08/2023
Georgios Mizithras aka ‘MIZI’ Giorgos Mizi
is a musician, sound artist and creative programmer. He is active both as a composer and a performer in a range of fields, including acousmatic music, improvisation, sound art, music for theatrical plays, audiovisual installations and radio art. His current research revolves around the idea of “media rummaging”, the constant intuitive exploration of different playback, recording and transmission media, creating works based on the unique properties of different sound media. He's part of the KEDiMouRa Collective and the experimental music ensemble Trigger Happy. He's a curator and producer of the radio art internet platform loskop.radio.
This is what he says about the upcoming album:
Watch Paint Dry is a six-part work for 256 gliding pure tones. The piece is an exercise in attentive listening to the constellations formed and broken by the gradual movement of the tones. Through deep listening to the complex interactions between the tones, one becomes more present. Pushing through the initial tedium of watching paint dry, with enough time one's experience becomes evocative.
Through stillness, one becomes more alert, more aware of the imperceptible changes of the paint, of how it hardens and transitions through different states.
Different textures, layers and levels of complexity both on the micro and the macroscopic scale are revealed the longer we stay submerged in the sound. The sine wave, much like paint, is an ambiguous building block, both a medium and a self-contained object. The listening experience becomes a vehicle for the unobserved, inviting us to slow down and appreciate a different temporal and sensory domain. To allow ourselves to Watch Paint Dry.
Pre-order:
https://mizithras.bandcamp.com/album/watch-paint-dry
