Tracks traffic || jammed captures a fleeting moment of intensity as mockART take the stage at the Rush Hour Kulturfestival, presented by Heussenstamm Stiftung. Recorded on September 8, 2024 at Atelierhaus Orber Straße in Frankfurt, the performance unfolded in close contact with an attentive and responsive audience. The music was written exclusively for this evening.
Tracks mockART thrives on collaboration. After inviting other artists to remix our album views || interrupted, we were fascinated by how radically different the results sounded on views || remixed – each remix standing confidently as a track in its own right. That experience sparked a new idea: what if several artists reworked the same
Tracks He Staggered Across The Floor came about as an experiment. Christoph and rabirius were experimenting with flute tunes that they looped through various effects. The resulting sounds where recorded and fed through the loop. So expect something noisy and minimalistic. The CD version of the album comes with an exclusive cover by renown artist
Tracks After completing views | interrupted Christoph Dorner and rabirius thought about what might have happened if they had involved further artists in the project. While discussing this, the idea to release a remix album was born. The band is really ecstatic about the remixes. They think that Whispered, Medicine Lake, Urhixidur and Morteza Jahangiri
Tracks views | interrupted was composed as a soundtrack for the exhibition of the same name by Sonja Ackermann, Christian Rocas and mockART’s rabirius. For the exhibition, each artist created six works with the same name. mockART decided to extend the concept and took the themes and titles of the six images and converted them
Tracks Men Who Lost Their Heads is the first album that we released as a duo. Created under lockdown conditions we made consistent and pandemic-related use of the digital possibilities of contactless music-making – together and yet separately, social but with distancing, virus-proof and yet highly infectious. The idea was to create an album about
Tracks mockART started to work on their first album in 2006 and it was released in 2007. The recording process was an experiment with limited resources that lead to some creative ideas how to create sounds and sample them. A lot of instrument parts and vocals where recorded through the microphone build in the computer.
Tracks Originally, ION was part of a shared album: In 2008 I was asked by Erik Ochránek of the Slovak noise project Drén if I wanted to record a split album with them. I agreed, and the album ION / Time Demon’s Claws was published as a CD by Uz Bolo Dost! Productions the same
Tracks mockART recorded Living with Human Machines after a 9 year break from recording. The tracks were mainly created from sampled noises to create a sound that resembles machines that work through their routines. CDs Downloads and Streaming
Tracks mockART started working on the album in 2009. However, when rabirius moved to Frankfurt he concentrated more on his photographic work and resumed working on the project again in 2018 and finally completed the album a year later. The idea behind the project was to work with vocal samples sent by other musicians and