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Cerrar Los Ojos pt1

by Roberto Carlos Lange

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In 2011 Roberto Carlos Lange acquired an Atari Video Music synth that was modified by Switched On Music in Austin. The machine generates shapes and colors in response to sound with the original intention to hook up your favorite album and run it through your TV set for a light show. As you bumped Teddy Pendergrass or Black Sabbath, the Atari Video Music would auto-generate these distinct Atari shapes and colors and dance through presets as the songs went on. The modifications allowed for expanded control of its original 13 buttons and five knob parameters. Roberto began to document experiments with the Atari Video Music Synth and captured video that became a series called: Cerrar Los Ojos 1, 2 + 3.

The score to Cerrar Los Ojos pt1 balances on sounds that wriggle and stretch over time. It sounds like you are listening to a sound move in a time-lapse motion, growing and changing over time through seasons and climate. "Since studying animation and computer art at college, I've always used visual movement in computer-generated worlds to inform and chart out how I make music." Says Roberto. "This machine had fun results very quickly, and I was able to jump around with ideas in sound and visuals without having to overthink it. I found myself imagining that the sound and visuals were spaces in-between spaces inside this machine".

"Cerrar Los Ojos means to close your eyes. The visuals this machine-generated began to remind me of what the world looks like when you close your eyes. These moving lines and colors flashing and pulsing, also all the things your brain imagines and the hope that when you close your eyes to dream, you remind yourself you can sustain inspiration and joy by just closing your eyes for a second."

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released February 20, 2020
All Music Roberto Carlos Lange.
Recorded in Brooklyn, NY. May 9, 2011
Album art is a still from Cerrar Los Ojos pt1 video.
watch here: youtu.be/p7lcExahGxg

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