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The Theory of Cultural Compression
Cultural Compression describes the transformation of complex cultural structures into minimal operational traces. The Theory of Cultural Compression Works and Experiments 1995–2025 Marcello Mercado Table of Contents Preface Cultural Compression Chapter I Compression as Method Chapter II Logic as Compost The Gödel Performances Chapter III Music as Glyph SUMMA – Notations Chapter…
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SUMMA – Notations
SUMMA – Notations, 2012, HD single channel video, 4min 12sec, stereo, 16:9, black/white Compression, notation and the impossible archive of music At first sight, SUMMA – Notations appears deceptively simple. A white field, black marks, fragments of text, and the invocation of monumental works from the history of Western music—compositions…
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Searching for the Short Version of Hamlet
Performance and photographic sequenceElsinore / Helsingør, Denmarkc. 1999–2000 Searching for the Short Version of Hamlet forms part of a broader investigation into the compression of cultural systems that runs throughout Marcello Mercado’s early work around the turn of the millennium. Developed in temporal proximity to SUMMA – Notationen, the piece explores how…
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PORTFOLIOS
DRAWINGS — PORTFOLIO View Portfolio (EN) Extended version: EN DE ES PAINTINGS — PORTFOLIO View Portfolio (EN) Extended version: EN DE …
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ARTIFICIAL EXTELLIGENCE, 2025
Siegfried Zielinski ARTIFICIAL EXTELLIGENCE A Short Manifesto In Virtual Dialogue with Marcello Mercado and Diced Algorithms by Tom Fecht Published in Times of Uncertainty Bilingual English/German Edition, 48 pages, 8 color plates Brochure 21 x 13 cm November 2025 “This Manifesto is primarily aimed at those who have…
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MARCELLO MERCADO – BANDCAMP
Marcello Mercado is an Argentine-German interdisciplinary artist and sound researcher whose practice approaches sound as a material, computational, and perceptual system. His work integrates experimental music, glitch-based structures, and algorithmic processes to investigate instability, noise, and discontinuity as operative conditions within contemporary media environments. Rather than functioning as autonomous musical compositions,…
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The Hypergaussian War: The Universal, 2025
The Hypergaussian War: The Universal by Marcello Mercado Complete version on BANDCAMP The Hypergaussian War: The Universal explores the collision of synthetic systems, drones, and glitch architectures. A sonic field built from algorithmic noise, evolving frequencies, and layered distortions. The composition unfolds as an unstable network…
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Hyper_Untitled (remix)
Hyper_Untitled (remix) by Marcello Mercado Hyper_Untitled (remix) Complete version on BANDCAMP Hyper Untitled is a fixed-media acousmatic work exploring friction zones between digital synthesis, asymmetric glitch, and broadband morphologies, transforming noise into structural material. The piece unfolds as a field of evolving forces—granular strata, aliasing artifacts, and quasi-vocal gestures—where transitions rather than events…
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The Night Sounds Louder Than the Crickets
The Night Sounds Louder Than the Crickets by Marcello Mercado The Night Sounds Louder Than the Crickets released January 1, 2014 Complete version on BANDCAMP
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Removal Of Destruction, 2019
Removal of Destruction by Marcello Mercado Marcello Mercado Removal Of Destruction 33min 34″ 2019 Complete version on BANDCAMP
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Hohen! Hohen! Hohen!, 2014
Hohen! Hohen! Hohen! by Marcello Mercado Marcello Mercado Hohen! Hohen! Hohen! Track.04 4 Tracks, 56 minutes 2014, Germany Complete version on BANDCAMP
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Live streamings from Dolmens, 2011
Live streamings from Dolmens DNA-performance-installation- soundart (LIVE) 19/06/11 14:17 PM Place: Flintinge, Denmark Dolmen 2: 54° 44´23.99” N 11° 47´23.36” E elev. 4m Live Streamings from the Dolmens (2011) Live Streamings from the Dolmens is an experimental radio work that unfolds at the intersection of archaeology, genomics, and transmission infrastructures.…