JOJO MAYER presents: ME/MACHINE

JOJO MAYER_ME/MACHINE

ME/MACHINE is an adventure where human performance and the archaic
power of drums interact with cutting edge generative music technology in realtime.
Jojo Mayer explores new possibilities, narratives and syntax of how humans
could coexist with digital technology in a symbiotic way. An artistic approach to
face an increasingly unpredictable and fast approaching future, where reliance
on familiar protocol and planning could become more difficult – and
improvisation more important instead.
As with his band NERVE, electronic music has been a central influence in Jojo
Mayer’s work for the past decades. He spearheaded the movement of an entire
generation of drummers to reverse engineer machine rhythms on acoustic drum
set. ME/MACHINE constitutes the next chapter in this love affair.
“The initial impulse for ME/MACHINE came during an experimental recording
session with Brian Eno shortly before the onset of the pandemic. I got struck by
the ramifications generative, algorithmic technologies and AI will have on the
future of music and thought: If only I had a year off, I would get down with this.
And when all over sudden the world stood still and international touring came to
a halt, it created an unexpected opportunity to fully immerse myself with these
new tools to develop a music engine that follows, interprets and mutates input
from my drumming.”
ME/MACHINE – an improvisational duet between a machine imitating human
behavior and a human imitating idiosyncrasies of a machine.
"This is the kind of music I want to be able to make”
(Brian Eno @ Theodore Currentzis Midnight Lounge 29 June 2019)
"not only astonishing but also very powerful emotionally."
(Brian Eno @ Barbican) Tuesday 22 September 2015

Photo: @Jojo Mayer

Jojo Mayer _ ME/MACHINE