<img class="alignleft  wp-image-10433" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Markus-Mehr-2014-1-300x200.jpg" alt="Markus Mehr" width="182" height="121" />In the new video for <a title="Markus Mehr" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/">Markus Mehr</a>’s ‘Buoy’, taken from his latest album <a title="Markus Mehr - Binary Rooms" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/"><i>Binary Rooms</i></a>, the music and visuals co-exist in unnerving synchronicity. Created by Hidden Shoal’s own Cam Merton, the video’s three-dimensions are populated by blurred figures. As they move through the inky expanse, they seem to be both creating the song’s menacing soundworld with their movements, and responding to the dynamics of the music with their shadowy choreography. View the video at YouTube and Vimeo.

Mehr’s work has seen a subtle shift in scale across his five studio albums. From the widescreen cosmic vistas of <a title="Lava" href="https://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/lava" target="_blank"><em>Lava</em></a> to some of the more intimate moments of his 42-minute single-track opus <a title="Off" href="https://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/off" target="_blank"><em>Off</em></a>, Mehr has now come to examine the most challenging space yet – that of our everyday lives and the spatial narratives that surround us. Mehr’s music has always possessed a keen sense of and negotiation with scale, and on <em>Binary Rooms</em> he challenges notions of personal space, juxtaposing the human against the industrial, the gentle and intimate against the jolting and harsh. Mehr acts as a fragment hunter, meshing machine-like tones with the discarded elements of humanity; narrative with anti-narrative. On <em>Binary Rooms</em> he manages to create a spatial remix – a striking re-design of aural reality filled with a living, digital biology.

Check out <em>Binary Rooms</em> and Mehr's other releases <a title="Markus Mehr" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/">here</a> and watch the video for 'Buoy' at Youtube or <a title="Vimeo" href="https://vimeo.com/118456658" target="_blank">Vimeo</a>.