Ahead of the release of Markus Mehr‘s incredible new album Binary Rooms on 15th October, we have something very special to share with you. Experimental filmmaker and Markus Mehr collaborator Stefanie Sixt has created a stunning new video work for the album track ‘Gymnasium/Swarms’. View the full video at Vimeo, stream the track at SoundCloudand download it at Bandcamp.
Binary Rooms is Mehr’s fifth studio album and his most challenging and engaging to date. Mehr’s music has always possessed a keen sense of and negotiation with scale, and on Binary Rooms he challenges notions of personal space, juxtaposing the human against the industrial, the gentle and intimate against the jolting and harsh. Mehr acts as a fragment hunter, meshing machine-like tones with the discarded elements of humanity; narrative with anti-narrative. On Binary Rooms he manages to create a spatial remix – a striking re-design of aural reality filled with a living, digital biology.
“Off is unquestionably the most satisfying part of the trilogy… opens in a manner characteristic of the genre but subsequently distinguishes itself as something far more than a standard ambient work… a wholly immersive experience that you will likely want to re-experience many times over” – Textura
“In this blissful wanderlust Mehr succeeds in spades creating a completely engrossing, engaging and all together reliable album full of the most powerful ambient-drone tracks this year” – Tome to the Weather Machine
Check out Markus Mehr’s discography and read more about the artist here.