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M Wingren

unburn.it

Date
2021
Date
2021
Date
2021

About the Item

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"Unburn.it" is a song-as-web-browser-game that was commissioned by the Aalto Media Lab for the Ars Electronica Festival of Art, Society and Technology. Upon entering the URL, the visitor is submerged in a polluted ocean. The seed of the composition is an eco-grief dirge which can be bent and morphed into danceable catharsis or disjointed fragments. As the player sinks through the screen space clicking and dragging changes the 3D view and alters the structure of the music flowing around. Tapping objects that float into view also produces sounds, making the work function like a visual score. The amount of interaction is the player’s choice; one can simply observe the piece or transform its patterns.

Music/design by M, visual art by CV Wingren, and code by Arto Chydenius

About the Artist

M Wingren is a multimedia artist who creates audio-visual performances and game-like music systems. Their music falls into the broad category of experimental pop with sticky melodies, brutal sound design, and sporadic beat-driven structures. M’s performances are reactions to conventions within electronic music. The default often involves someone standing behind a laptop on stage, which can be indistinguishable from checking email. M has played with this inscrutability by posting to social media “live on stage” and by appropriating PowerPoint slides and Karaoke into their audio-visual performances. M also designs musical interfaces with the aim of creating more physically expressive musicianship. For example, by using a heart rate sensor to control the pulse of literal dance music and flashing lights. Recently, M has been releasing music in the format of web-browser games. These compositions explore the interactive, nonlinear, and multimedia potential of digital music. M holds a Masters in Sound and New Media from Aalto University School of Arts Design and Architecture. They have recently performed and exhibited at Berliner Festspiele’s 70th anniversary “The Sun Machine is Coming Down,” and at the Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology, and Society.

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