The trio explore a genre of electronic music known as "glitch," "post-digital," or "microsound," applying their brand of the "aesthetics of failure" to both the content of the work as well as the presentation.
If it sounds like Art, then OVNI make outsider art, full of quirks and hastily patched cracks, with a dose of absurd humor that blurs into a strangely beautiful tapestry if you squint your eyes just right.

OVNI have performed in Denver area locations including the Museum of Contemporary Art/ Denver and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. CD's of their previous release, OVNI: unknowns will be available at the venues. OVNI: The Future of Kitchen Design is due out in Fall 2002 on CommTom

What the critics are saying about OVNI:

"OVNI seem to take to heart the challenge of relating advances within the academic electronic music framework, to the DIY mentality of the underground. Deep swimming, yet warm and listenable - with a sense of humor to boot."
Kim Cascone, (Anechoic Media)

"OVNI is the conquistadorial flagship out there on the far horizons of a vast audiogenic empire, uncharted but by the very few. Navigating a brilliant innovative deviance, forging west to unearth east, elliptical in its orbit, undaunted on an inimitable odyssey, it sails on. O onwards OVNI, onwards!"
Chris Mosdell (poet/ lyricist for YMO, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Gundam Mobile Suit)

"OVNI create a digital soundscape spanning from abstract noise beats to soft synth ambients and cut-up voices. Think darth vibes and add a light west-coast breeze."
Iris Garrelfs (BitTonic/Sprawl)

"OVNI is everything NASA wishes it was in the 21st century: using machines cobbled together from the fragments of alien technology to conduct expeditions into the borderworlds. OVNI applies similar approaches and software processes to audio and visual sources that range from UFO videos, Ligeti compositions, Tangerine Dream soundtracks, and the intonations of the Gyuto Monks to Firesign Theater, NFL football and MTV, and devslashnull's Gristle Box. The resulting set combines granular wanderings through digital audio and image files, tightly synchronized beats and video montages, weird recorded word, multisensory freq outs, and beautiful atmospheres of shimmering light and sound."
Dr. Trace Reddell (Professor of Digital Media Studies, University of Denver)

"OVNI's music morphs in a way that is unique, and like very little else that I could compare it to. Very deep, sensuous and intriguing... this could be "make out" music for recovering nymphomaniacs."
DJ Deadly Buda (Deadly Systems)

"OVNI's pulses, throbs and fractured sonograms are recontextualized ciphers peregrinating through the plastinated remains of my CD collection in slow motion. OVNI doesn't make me want to dance and doesn't make me want to think either. I don't know what they want me to do, but I like wanting to do it..."
Charlie Jamison (Department of Video, Maryland Institute College of Art)

"OVNI create a unique haunted ambience; a kind of netherworld opera of found, created and manipulated sound that's evocative in some rather disturbing and unpredictable ways. Gentle melodic sweeps take the edge off the fragmented voices but never to the extent that the nightmare recedes to a safe distance. The more you listen, the more you hear; both in terms of the myriad specific sounds and rhythms and in the musical layers that evolve holistically as you let the sounds wash over you. Think electronic voice phenomenon meets Farmers Manual..."
Nick Clarke (Addictive TV)

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June 20-July 3 2002

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