MHz - Material Prosody (2024)

Put together by Mo H. Zareei (aka mHz), "Material Prosody" brings together a number of artists whose work concerns materiality of sound and sonority of matter. The series presents six new works composed for different editions of his sound-sculpture "Material Sequencer": a custom-designed 8-step electromechanical sequencer aimed at emphasising the physical materiality of sound and sound production.

In "Material Prosody," mHz invites Nicolas Bernier, Loscil, Matmos, Zimoun, and Alba Triana to develop new works for different editions of "Material Sequencer." This series showcases each artist's unique approach to utilizing the sound-sculpture and the concepts behind its development. While Loscil and Matmos apply their distinct compositional styles and signature sound processing techniques to the sequencer's output, Nicolas Bernier and Zimoun embrace its instrumental nature in almost improvised pieces—an approach pushed to its extremity in Alba Triana's radically stripped-back contribution, both in form and material. Referencing Rayner Banham's principles of Brutalist architecture, mHz's own contribution leverages sound-based brutalism as the conceptual underpinning for the project as a whole.