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Metalhead against the machine II
for E-guitar and Live electronics

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Metalhead against the machine II is about recalling how electric guitars work. The vibrations of the strings is converted into electrical signals, when a metal string vibrates within the magnetic field created by the pick up, it disturbs the magnetic flux, inducing a small electric current in the pick up. So the sound of an electric guitar would be the sound of an electric current generated by a magnetic field. If so, what does it sound like?

Based on this concept the E-guitar is connected to the "machine" that can amplify the string vibration in a magnetic field. The quality and meaning of the action of touching the strings and making them vibrate is the key to driving the machine. The touch that does not make a sound in conventional playing has changed the parameters in the physical, electric current world.

Things really do slow down when you're about to work with this machine. but as soon as your hands instinctively clutch the metal strings with nature's biological death grip, everything kicks into overdrive.

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