Think about strolling right into a live performance the place the lead synth is a barcode scanner and the rhythm part is powered by a tv from 1983. That is the world of ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS!, a Japanese collective rewiring the out of date into the operatic.
On the heart of the imaginative collective is Ei Wada, a Japanese artist whose life’s mission, spurred by a childhood imaginative and prescient of a music competition on the base of a crab-legged CRT tower, has led him to orchestrate a nationwide symphony of scavenged electronics. Techno meets the trash heap with ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS!, now practically 100 members sturdy throughout six Japanese cities.
Their playground is a graveyard of archaic expertise from comparatively current historical past. Tube televisions develop into percussion devices whereas air flow followers morph into synths. As Japan and the world confront the mounting waste of outdated tech, ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! affords the surprising answer of turning it into music.
In one in every of their most compelling innovations, barcodes are scanned to make improvisational techno. Their so-called “barcoder” generates sounds by connecting alerts of a barcode scanner to a speaker.
Take a look at footage from the efficiency beneath.
