Mimu Artist Bio

Artist
Mimu Merz is a Vienna based graphic designer, media artist, singer and songwriter. Her works mostly have a visual and auditive component, small video pieces and drawings made by hand, digitally brought into movement.

The artist describes her vocals as: „wayward phrasings and introspective lyrics, sometimes mumbled, sometimes pointed out clearly, like a salty finger in the wound of ongoing life. Puns and structures. Patterns and norms. Lofty love and wicked war.“
(quote from http://2009.elevate.at/en/music-arts/artists/artist-details/guests/ritornell/)

Live Acts and Projects
Mimu has a few different manifestations.

„mimu at nite“ – »experimental folk«
(www.myspace.com/listentomimu), a solo performance with voice, accordeon and laptop. The accordeon is played minimalistically, either rhythmically or droning – according to the certain song, the voice is layered over that solid ground in a very flexible way. the vocals are very narrative, the stories are clothed in metaphoric constructions of a flowery language. The laptop provides distinct atmospherical components such as field recordings of varying places (such as woods, cities) or incidents (fighting dogs, car accidents), or samples of old movies, that correlate to the context.

other baubles of mimu can be found on http://www.myspace.com/mimu.merz. that site contains produced sound material (the other one contains mostly live recordings of concerts), that leads more towards direction „electronica“, several voices, live-looping, spoken word collages and pictorial samples of integrated work of art.

„MImu vs. Ritornell“ – »Indie«, »Minimal Music« and »Electronica«.
„Richard works mainly as a composer and sound-artist and has contributed to various productions as a session drummer for the likes of Patrick Wolf and Flying Lotus. For Ritornell he provides electronic textures and fine acoustic rhythms, playing his instruments with the use of diverse utensils such as bass bows, sizzle-chains or toilet brushes, …“
(quote from http://2009.elevate.at/en/music-arts/artists/artist-details/guests/ritornell/)

„Clara Moto feat. Mimu“ – »minimal tech«
After the release of „Silently“ at 30th of October, 2008 the collaboration continues with Clara Moto’s upcoming album „Polyamour“, to be expected in spring 2010.

As a visualist (from 2001 to 2008) she accompanied acts such as DMX, Ellen Allien, Modeselektor, Gustav, Felix Kubin, Iambic Squared, Jake Fairley, Squarepusher and many more.

MImu Merz is currently working in fields of:
electro acoustic improvisaton, specially prepared instruments, field recordings, live processing and extended vocal technique.

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