Boca Raton

Boca Raton (‘the mouth of the mouse’) is an ongoing musical project started by Martijn Tellinga in 2000. It hovers at the edges of synthesized and concrete-acoustic soundworlds. The abstraction of concrete sources through electronic synthesis and manipulation, creates an alias in sound which shares the associative and narrative character of the everyday soundtrack that surrounds us. By using elements of both worlds, its musical form shows the integration of natural - unstaged - sound and its artificially created image.

More than relying on melody, harmony and rhythm, these soundworks are constructed from the fundamental building blocks of music: texture, volume and time-elapse. A composition comes to life through emphasis of intrinsic and directional qualities of the soundmaterial, outlinening the tendencies within and by arranging and re-arranging timbral elements. As Boca Raton developed over time, the use of concrete sounding-material has shifted into control-information, distilled out of extracted natural sounds and fieldrecordings. This data is used to organise composition and outlining gestural development for mostly synthetic sound. As well as displaying an autonomous sonic object, these environments are as much a carrier for the compositional form and musical gesture.

esc.rec. releases:
J’ee-haw! Rondgeleide Mix - cat.# esc.rec.2