Artist Talk: Roc Jiménez de Cisneros

Roc Jiménez de Cisneros discusses Untitled Drum Permutations, his project built on a simple but overwhelming premise: playing every possible ordering of eleven drum machine sounds—over 39 million unique permutations. 

Using the iconic Roland TR-909, it becomes a systematic yet strangely meditative exploration of limits, repetition, pattern deformation, and attention. What begins as a mechanical process soon raises deeper questions about how we listen, how memory functions in music, and how sheer quantity can shift our perception of time. He situates the work within larger cultural patterns, positioning it alongside economics, horror, and magic.

Roc performs MAKINA TRAX on Saturday, October 11, presented in partnership with the Graham Foundation. 

Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (b.1975, Barcelona, Spain) makes mentasmic computer music and deformed techno objects.