The new mixtape comes from the hand of SPIME.Im, a Turin-based media art collective formed by Marco Casolati, Davide Tomat and Gabriele Ottino. Their practice that aims to investigate, through transmedia projects, the aesthetics and the languages derived from the affirmation of digital reality. The collective includes musicians, video makers, creative coders and engineers, with all these different backgrounds having a large impact on their creative process when developing new works.

Spime is a concept that defines the internet of things. Spimes are objects that know how to talk to each other. A concept that was coined and refined by Bruce Sterling; he first imagined spimes as an extension of RFID tags, where a physical organization of things could be representative of an also intangible web of things.

By juxtaposing Bruce Sterling’s «spime» concept with «I am», SPIME.IM is the being that is intertwined between the artificial and the natural, with they work representing human-machine interactions in sound, moving image and generative graphics. In their audio-visual 360° live show «EXALAND», te collective interweave sound and image, letting sound parameters influence what manifests on-screen, and treating the camera perspective as an instrument.

We use technology, 3D art and electronic music to create immersive audiovisual experiences, in which we explore the boundaries of identity, and question what is real and what is not, what is happening around us and what our collective experience as a society could be instead.

SPIMES.IM have recently published a new album ZERO, and an extrapolation of their debut EXALAND. Glitches, hypercharged synthesisers, and some machine funk as they define their sound, providing a soundtrack for the Zero times.

Tracklist:

M.E.S.H. - Loop Trip

Georgy Ligeti - Lontano

Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Dancing Eleven Ritme Jaavdanegi

Vladimimir Ussachevsky - Metamorphosis

Emptyset - Filament

Mica Levi - Castigo

Second Woman - 200601je6

John Cage - Imaginary Landscape N°2

Jurg Frey - Memoire, horizon

Autechre - Flep

Otto Luenin - Fantasy In Space

Vladislav Delay - Raajat

John Zorn - Poverty (Once Upon A Time In America) Ennio Morricone