Ex machina

ex machina (also known as ex machina project) is a German music project. History ex machina is a music project that was founded by Claudio Chiriatti in 1999 in Trier. Tobias Schwerdt has become a second member since 2008. ex machina has distributed its music over the Internet from the very beginning. The debut album ex machina, as well as a few individual pieces, have been released in download only formats in self-distribution. Also the album bewegung / movement produced from 2004 to 2005, was released at various music download web sites in self-distribution. In October 2006, a contract was signed with Friedel Muders for his music label Fuego, since then the music of ex machina has been distributed exclusively via this label. In November 2006 Fuego released the albums bewegung / movement, lichter / lights and warten / waiting. These albums were produced over a period of two years and were released at the same time. The first two albums, ex machina and welttblick, as well as various individual tracks, were no longer distributed. The music on these three albums is purely instrumental and the pieces are adapted to the respective album theme. Accordingly, the opening track sunset / sunset on the album lichter / lights is an attempt to compose a musical version of a sunset. The progress of the track represents the intensification of the resulting colors. ex machina contributed a composition to the art project Music from the Masses initiated by the artist Matthias Fritsch at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Afterwards Music from the Masses was shown as a traveling exhibition in different museums.