MRI

For their project MRI Patricia Bosshard and Simon Grab use exclusively sound recordings from an MRI scanner (Magnet Resonance Imaging). In the tradition of the Musique Concrète they leave the raw material in its own radicality. The actual transformation is being achieved by layering these rich and complex sounds. Grab and Bosshard compose a varied and dense universe, which stylisticly goes from minimal ambient sounds to harsh noise – music that reaches the deepest layers of your brain, music that lets your molecules dance.

Patricia Bosshard and Simon Grab have both been delighted of the harsh sounds of the MRI scanner, when they ended up in the magnetic resonance tube at a hospital due to an accident. Bosshard and Grab, always in the research of the unheard, translate this unusual acoustic situation into music.

Pfff-zzz-pfff-zzz-pff-zz – braaaaaaaa. The set begins. Every snarl of the machine conjures millions of brain images that come to life in seconds. My thoughts jam. Transparency has its limits. I return to this tube every year or two, thanks to a micro-tumor that’s been squatting in my head for 15 years – a bit of anarchy has always won my sympathy. They call him a harmless fellow, but he keeps costing me money – a trickster messing with my hormones. Thanks, bud.

Tube Techno by Janina Neustupny