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MY LOVE TO DISTORTION, By Shis Unusual

Shis Unusual is a dance noise project dedicated to the manufacture of rhythms and sounds through the use of self-built instruments. A smooth post-structuralist prose floats on an industrial, sometimes electric, sometimes environmental, rhythm.

Behind Shis Unusual there is me, Micaela Perez. Multidisciplinary artist, teacher, technician and local electronic developer. My strength is the sound synthesis within the area of technological music, and among my works you can also find virtual collections of conceptual images, physical editions of technical-literary narratives and various audiovisual compositions produced with my own tools.

I learned by watching tutorials and listening to stuff that people would share with me. Where the hi-hat falls, the times of electronic music, tricks to raise and lower the energy, where to use the echo and for how long to make people float. It’s almost everything on YouTube. And I am one of those who read all the manuals.

After a long tour of concerts and talks on hybrid electric luthiery across the European continent, I have returned to Buenos Aires where I released my album, recorded in Tercer Brazo Estudio Taller and mixed at the London airport: Sola en la cola del samba edited, fortunately, by the label MUN.

Sometimes I feel that I sound like a punk trying to play the Yamaha CR that has just been bought in a cash converter, as if I spent my days still distinguishing the tones. I always felt very influenced by the music I listen to, a lot of punk and dub when I was a teenager, then noise, then dub again and now, just now, some electronic music. I never went to parties to dance electronic music. I did’t use to go to see DJs. I didn’t listen to electronic music except for Kraftwerk, Silver Apples or Aphex Twin, and it is easy to see everything that is “wrong” in the music that I produce, but I must say that I think that that is what attracts. Neither my understanding with the synthesis nor my love for distortion, but the level of error that I drag in the way I play. Shis Unusual for me is more than a musical project, it is everything I know, and everything I am, transformed into amplified voltage and sound. A complex wave, dragging in its longitudinal propagation, a lot of data, echo and distortion. Most of the music that I play sound bad, it always sounded bad. Virtuous music makes me nervous. I like how I sound, I sound like the way I am.

Currently I put aside the shows to devote myself to my new venture as a local electronic developer. While I am part of Nucleo, the Argentine company of modular analog synthesizers, I am developing hybrid tools (software and hardware) dedicated to audiovisual production in my own new start-up: Weird Electronics.

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︎ MY LOVE TO DISTORTION BY SHIS UNUSUAL

MY LOVE TO DISTORTION, By Shis Unusual