SWM: distributed bodies of musical-visual form

"Dr Troy Innocent explores the multiplicity of codes in the contemporary mediascape, exploring the connections between language and reality. Ollie Olsen is an Australian composer, synthesist and sound designer who has been producing and performing rock, electronic and experimental music for the past thirty years. The Shaolin Wooden Men are a 'gang of numbers' whose bodies are 'made of sound'. 

SWM05 features the distributed bodies of musical-visual form that are inhabited by the Shaolin Wooden Men (SWM), a virtual band, a 'gang of numbers' — me(a)tacodeflesh. SWM require your assistance to manifest as media creatures. They invite you to send them images of your local environment in which they can appear. Sending images unlocks access to the SWM05 mobile site which consists of downloadable micromusic ringtones and small screen machinima performances. The SWM are everywhere. In a meshwork of wireless entities, they are media creatures seeking a fragmented existence to be consumed in the nanoseconds of play-time in the emerging wireless net. SWM05 will transfigure the SWM by embodying them in a new materiality." -- from Turbulence