Malfunctions

Obscured or unwanted sounds one usually does not pay attention to, or even tries to eliminate as annoying are the focus of this album. Koutsomichalis tries to interfere with various systems and trigger hidden mechanisms - mechanisms that were not meant to be, so he could acquire on purpose all sorts of malfunctions and explore arbitrary ways of interaction between them. Those parasitic innovations, as consequences of an unpredictable and totally ambiguous side-being, erode the system' s functionality to transform it into something completely different (most of the times considered undesired, too) but definitely present and not less genuine. Using found electronic devices, coils, custom electromagnetic and ultrasonic transducers along with various hardware hacks and feedback techniques, he meditates on all those sounds-that-were-not-meant-to-be. 1st edition of 72 cdrs, April 2010 2nd edition of 33 music-DVDs, April 2010 3d edition of 99 cdrs, May 2011