1. A rolled up or coiled condition. 2. A rolling or coiling together. 3. A turn of anything coiled; whorl; sinuosity. 4. Anat. One of the sinuous folds or ridges of the surface of the brain. 5. An operation performed on two signals which involves multiplying one signal by a delayed version of another signal, integrating or averaging the product, and repeating the process for different delays.
Convolution is the new musical/visual expression from New Yorker settled in Barcelona Mark Cunningham (Mars, Don King, Raèo) and Silvia Mestres. An intuitive excursion that uses the above mentioned definitions as a starting point. A sound created by elements such as a trumpet, guitar, voice, effects, samples and chaos to weave atmospheres, sound massage in between ambient, jazz and no-rock. Using Lydia Lunch's words: "music for a wet summer night dream..."
Convolution works from 2001. It's seed is in the CD "Blood River Dusk" (Por Caridad Producciones, 1997), published alone by Cunningham with the contribution of Silvia Mestres. In the concert at the Fin-de-Siecle festival in Nantes (France), Mark and Silvia developed a musical/visual language that officially became Convolution, appearing at the "1ª Mostra d'art sonor i visual" in the Convent of Sant Agustí, Barcelona, june 2000. Since then, they have publish the CD "1 to 5" (Sublingual Records, USA, 2001), two limited selfeditions containing remixes ("Smoke", 2001) and live shows recorded during their American tour in 2001 ("Convolution Goes West") and their new album: "Rough Cuts" (Spooky Sound, 2003).
Mark Cunningham's musical career starts in 1975 with Mars (outstanding group from the "no-wave" who appeared in the mythic record "No New York"). After that, he created Don King together with Duncan Lindsay and Lucy Hamilton. Mark Cunningham also worked repeteadly during those years with artists like Lydia Lunch, Christian Marclay, Rudolph Grey, J.G. Thirlwell (Clint Ruin/Jim Foetus) and Fist of Facts. Installed in Barcelona in 1991 he created Raèo (with Gat) and he started working with Pascal Comelade as a member of his Bel Canto Orchestra.
The plastic artist Silvia Mestres has been working with Mark since 1990, musically as well as visually: she has design the stage and visual area of his live shows as well as the image for the records, for both Cunningham alone and now Convolution, and contributing with voices and guitar on the musical area.

http://www.convolution7.ws

• 1 to 5 (CD, Sublingual Records, 2001)
• Smoke (CD, remixes, Spooky Sound, 2001)
• Convolution Goes West (CD, live, Spooky Sound, 2002)
• Rough Cuts (CD, Spooky Sound, 2003)

"Like Herb Alpert waking up in a spaceship... When he improvises, alternating between long, sonorous proclamations and agitated tonguing and smears, Cunningham sounds close to Don Cherry. Mestres4 interpretation of a song called 'La Frontera del cuerpo' underlines Convolution's quiet power." (WIRE)

"Convolution's noirer-than-noir trumpet, voice and effects thing is loaded with subtle menace. Cunningham and partner Silvia Mestres are on to something darkly magical." (TIME OUT NEW YORK MAGAZINE)

"Deeply distorted guitar, breathy vocals, trumpet, synth. Sounds like: balloon animals mid-contortion, Latin Jazz, rainy island nights locked inside of a haunted house, and the hot & cold soundtrack to an ever-morphing poetry book." (CEC-Philadelpia newsletter)

Psycholution (excerpt)

No West (excerpt)