Mac Tire is a sound designer, musician, performer, visual artist and composer.
His sound research combines ambient, experimental, electronic and live looping music using different instruments: his signature eight-string semi-acoustic guitar, synths, sampled natural sounds and water through the use of hydrophones.
Statement:
I define myself as a ravenous sound researcher.
The artistic research that I have been conducting for seven years combines sound and movement. It investigates precisely that sound that is movement: the waves of the sea are an example of this and it is exactly from that observation (both visual and acoustic) that my interest in the sampling and re-elaboration of natural sounds was born.
Furthermore, a fundamental role in my sound research is that played by electronics which, thanks to synths and analogue machines, allows me to generate sound right from its embryonic phase (that of an electrical signal) and to be able to observe how vibrations evolve. Sound, movement, electronics and environment therefore become the mantra of my continuous, tireless and evolving research.
Every day I explore everything known and unknown that surrounds me.