Mark Beasley, jonCates, Jake Elliott, Alex Inglizian, Tamas Kemenczy, Nicholas O'Brien and Jon Satrom will collaboratively build a MAGIC MATRIX MIXER MOUNTAIN in Lampo on JUNE 6 2009. http://www.lampo.org/

Cobbled together from broken computers, functional microphones, surveillance cameras, local feedback loops and international communication networks, this MAGIC MATRIX MIXER MOUNTAIN rises up from foothills and climbs skywards. Audio, video and datastreams flow up and down from the mountain. Each foothill is a self-contained system (artist) that sends tributary audio, video and data via a matrix of mixer connections. All these streams are sources mixed in realtime into a multi-channel audio and video landscape.

During the performance and installation at Lampo, five of the artists will build the MAGIC MATRIX MIXER MOUNTAIN on-site while two are connected remotely via the Internet. All of the artists (foothills) will feedback and feedforward to expose the graceful musicality of faulty technologies. Decoding and rebugging digital media, the MAGIC MATRIX MIXER MOUNTAIN will exist for one night only but will be accompanied by an operator's instruction manual, to be written, arranged and printed live in realtime along with the performance of the audio, video and datastreams.

Installed and performed live in Lampo, the MAGIC MATRIX MIXER MOUNTAIN began through a collaborative process of free association and deep-linked metaphors online. A nonverbal montage of images, animations and videos posted to a group blog documents this process: http://6609.tumblr.com/

Mark Beasley is an artist/educator making software, video, performance
and web art. http://mark-beasley.com/

Jon Cates makes, organizes and teaches experimental New Media Art,
including Art Games, Machinima, Computer Witchcraft, digitalPunk and
Noise musics. http://systemsapproach.net/

Jake Elliott is a cyberpsychedelic artware engineer. This is not a
metaphor. http://dai5ychain.net/

Alex Inglizian is a sound designer, experimental musician, computer
programmer, electronic technician, and educator. Inspired by broken
radios, children's toys, and vintage synthesizers.
http://cliplead.blogspot.com/

Tamas Kemenczy branches and merges interactive fiction, the demoscene
and programmable spells. http://copythatfloppy.net/

Nicholas O'Brien is a media maker and educator interested in the
relationship between identity and virtual constructs such as memory,
architecture and cyberspace. http://doubleunderscore.net/

Jon Satrom performs real-time audio/video, databends multimedia
computer files, and creates colorful glitch-ware. He spends his days
fixing things and teaching. He spends his evenings breaking things and
learning. http://jonsatrom.com/