Diego Garro's Systemfehler has been selected to be part of the Elektramusic CD 01.

Systemfehler
duration 10'17 - 2004
Elektramusic Electroacoustic Music
Volume 01 CD - track 04

It has been indeed an interesting, albeit difficult, challenge to articulate - musical - time using what prehaps can be regarded as the most ‘un-musical’ sound materials you can possibly find : dull ringing tones, harsh sonic spurts, piercing pikes of energy across the audible range of frequencies.

Working in the seclusion of a digital audio studio I felt free, for once, to mishandle sound equipment and software applications in order to generate most of the glitch material featured in Systemfehler. The composing act required a preliminary exercise of taming these stubbornly wild sounds, an exercise during which I unwittingly acquired, beside some tinnitus, an insight on the feeble nature of technology, its transience, its inherent instability. The transitory nature of the sonic detritus coming from the failure of these sophisticated tools mirrors their increasingly shorter and shorter life span.

Systemfehler may well be the soundtrack of the upgrade-rat-race that is engulfing us all in the rich world : the ‘lattest version’, running on the newest gizmos, while the old ones are already polluting the life of the less fortunate. A blip from a computer souncard in london, a rusty circuit board dumped, with thousand more, somewhere in China...