After RMSonce's first album – [Opus e] -, which was succesfully presented within the Sonar 2002 festival, the band that Barcelona-born composer, pianist and mathematician Francesc Martí leads follow their experimental course within advanced electronic music with the release of their second piece of work: The Game of Life .
The title for this new record refers to the cellular automat designed by John Conway in 1970: most certainly, the most frequently programmed game about artificial existence.
In the record, surprising structures and patterns emerge from Conway 's The Game of Life and seem to become and translate into captivating melodies, complex rhythms and random-like fragments that evolve in the time domain as Conway 's complex artificial life structures grow in the space domain. On the other hand, RMSonce's electronic origin does not prevent the analogic side of their work to be consolidated. Thus, the most experimental electronic sounds end up blending with powerful bass and guitar lines, operatic melodies or beats of an enormously expressive force.
Live acts expand the project through the addition of real time visuals effects, video projections, samples, musicians and so on. All of these blend to create an electronic mosaic of attractive and surrounding atmosphere.
Some of the artists that have taken part in this project are: Maria Hinojosa, soprano, Albert Faz, guitars, Juanjo Alba , musician and sound engineer, Eduard Gramunt, sound engineer, Àngel Valverde, David Martínez and Patricia Puentes, video artists.
"The Game of Life" review: "A fusion of musics that create a dark and fascinating universe."
- Mondo Sonoro, march 2006 -
"The Game of Life" review: "It combines with a lot of success electronic rates and electrical instruments, environmental sonic landscapes and perfectly raised rigorous structure. Notable."
- Triangle, january 2006 -
"The Game of Life" review: "The overall outcome being akin to a less dancy soundtrack to the film Pi."
- Rhythm Online, november 2005 -
"The Game of Life" review: "The publication of The Game of Life are good news for electronic music because its work doesn't have comparison in our country."
- Trax, october 2005 -