Author: Antoni Robert

3 V, by Aram Bartholl (1972 in Bremen) artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

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Another interesting temporary installation: Turning on LED’s with the energy of candles. Just amazing idea. Aluminium, acrylic glass, thermoelectric generator, electronics, LEDs, tea candles, steel chain in the Underpass at the palace square Schlossplatz 46, 48143 Münster. Bartholl’s installations in Münster are all based on thermoelectric devices that directly transform fire—the primeval medium of communication—into electrical energy. https://www.skulptur-projekte.de/#/En/Projects/2017/817/BARTHOLL  

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Nuclear Temple, by Thomas Schütte (Oldenburg, 1954) artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

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Thomas Schütte’s (* 1954 Oldenburg; lives and works in Düsseldorf) placement of his figural and architectural sculptures spotlights inconspicuous places or sites that have been forgotten. The development of his works is also influenced by references to architecture, history, and stories. At the same time, the references have a disturbing effect: they are strangely reinterpreted or interrupted by the surprising and thought-provoking motifs. In this way, the viewers’ awareness of urban space and the diversity of public life is sensitized. Urbanity is a key theme in Schütte’s artwork—he has been contributing to the discussion of art in public spaces since the 1980s. Yet he prefers to keep his distance to conceptual matters. In fact, his works are accessible to viewers even without contextual knowledge. This has been the second contribution of Schütte to the Münster Skulptur Projekte. The first one, the two cherries, was done in 1987, and has become

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Harsh Citation, Harsh Pastoral, Harsh Münster, by Ei Arakawa (Fukushima) artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

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Ei Arakawa’s (* 1977 Fukushima; lives in New York) art is mostly performative and includes everyday objects, works of art, and people as his actors, as it were, with each accorded an equal footing. Music and lyrics play an important role in his installations and performances, as he draws on the artistic strategies of the Gutai group and Fluxus. For Skulptur Projekte 2017, Arakawa has staged a light and sound show on the south-western end of Lake Aa. He has grouped seven pixelated LED paintings he assembled himself on the grassy space. https://www.skulptur-projekte.de/#/En/Projects/2017/815/ARAKAWA

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Tender Tender, Michael Dean (Newcastle) artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

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This is another of the remarkable works in 2017 projekte. How to fill a big atrium with all kind of rubbish, achieve that experts call it “art”, and get paid for it. Think abou it. It is not easy at all.  And I visited it twice! 2016 Turner Prize nominee Michael Dean takes over the atrium of the museum. He draped semi-transparent plastic sheets around the square space, creating a room within a room. Using peepholes, visitors can look at the sculptures inside the room. To enter the atrium, you have to take a walk around the historic halls. Michael Dean used materials from the streets, like rubbish, plastic, and concrete, to create an installation around an abstract semiotic system. https://www.skulptur-projekte.de/#/En/Projects/2017/822/DEAN  

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On Water (Auf dem Wasser), Ayşe Erkmen’s (Istanbul) artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

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Following with the recent impressions in Münster, this is one of the interesting works to see and to experiment. Besides the official descriptions, this is a work that generates a variety of suggestions. Depending on the point of view you see people walking on water. Or you may recall the refugees phenomenon, that have to go through water to go from one place to another. Anyway it is a remarkable piece of art that requires that you put your feet into water to fully appreciate it. On Water (Auf dem Wasser) is the title of Ayşe Erkmen’s artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017. For Skulptur Projekte 2017, Erkmen selected Münster’s inland harbour as her location. Just below the surface of the water between the bustling Nordkai (northern pier) and the industrialized Südkai (southern pier) she installed a jetty that links the two riverbanks. It creates the impression that visitors are

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New Video: Ales fosques (I&II) (Excerpts) by Zero de Conducta from Garcilaso session 15-7-2017

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Montserrat Marfany, percussions, glockenspiel Jordi offscope Buscà, Martin acoustic guitar, VoxLabEchoes & loops Sir Pere Canals Miró, Roland synthesizer Jaume Martín, xilophone & harmonica Dr Antoni Robert, Fender Squire synthesized guitar, Roland GR-55 Captain Enric Solà, percussions Excerpts from the 19′ track to be released soon. Images from: Flying Dove Flock by mrtimtangblog White bird flapping on black background shooting with high speed camera phantom flex, by dizi sever White dove by vliegvogels

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Pierre Huyghe’s After ALife Ahead (2017) at Skulptur Projekte Münster: augmented reality

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This is for shure the most impressive work of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, and the most expensive one, and it’ll be destroyed after Octobert the 1st. A work including cancer cells, snails, algae, concrete, bees, mud, software and many other elements. While touring possible locations for his contribution to the 2017 Skuptur Projekte in Münster, Germany, late last year, the 54-year-old French artist found one such site, a sprawling, old ice-skating rink, no longer in use, tucked behind a Burger King on the edge of town. “This place will be destroyed, so I could actually act on it as I wanted,” he said, recalling what attracted him to the space in a Skype call from Brooklyn last week. Huyghe has transformed that abandoned rink into one of the most formidable and mysterious artworks that I have ever seen, an alien environment that seems secretly to teem with life and that

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New CD available: AMORGOS SOUNDSCAPE by Nikos Theologitis / Stamatis Theologitis / Giannis Theologitis / Antoni Robert

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A new and exciting project! 1. Katapola 01:05 2. Panorama 1 10:12 3. Wind On Water 01:52 4. Nikos 01:05 5. Water On Wind 03:36 6. Nikos 2 01:28 7. Panorama 2 19:01 8. The Cave Children 00:48 9. Nikos 3 01:54 10. Panorama 3 21:23 11. Farewell 02:12 about The notion of folk culture has definitely been transformed through the course of the centuries. More particularly, tradition and its authenticity and spontaneity in the context of orality seem somehow to have been mutilated and reconstructed, as soon as globalization and multiculturalism became one of the dominant discourses during the 21st century. Folk songs haven’t been an exclusion in this particular case, as revivalism and folklorism have emerged as a devastating force in the production of folk music. In “Amorgos Soundscape” by Antoni Robert, a paradox occurs: One could say that these folk songs are seen through the eyes of a foreign visitor and the recording could be seen as

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PHICUS: Ferran Fages, Àlex Reviriego, Vasco Trilla, March, 13th, 2017

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Ferran Fages – electric guitar Àlex Reviriego – bass Vasco Trilla – drums, percussion Robadors 23, Barcelona Why “Phicus”? What is a phicus? A fancy spelling of the plant? Or is the explanation more elaborate? I suppose I’ll have to ask… but in a post-truth society, it’s more fun to guess or fabulate… #phikenews? Well, whatever it means, what it is… is a new trio in Barcelona, comprising three beyond-busy stalwarts of the free improvisation scene. I was already tempted to check them out but when they described themselves as a “Keiji Haino meets AMM” kind of thing, that clinched it. So is it a good description? With a samurai unhesitancy, they plunge directly in – clang, rumble, and clatter – with plenty of power, an absence of fear, and manage to avoid both cliché and repetition. So far, so good. Fages utilises a nice big open, distorted tone, plenty of hollow twang beneath

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PHICUS+1: Ferran Fages – Àlex Reviriego –Vasco Trilla + Joachim Badenhorst. 13-7-2017

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PHICUS+1 Ferran Fages – electric guitar Àlex Reviriego – doublebass Vasco Trilla – drums, percussion + Joachim Badenhorst – saxophone Robadors 23, Barcelona july, 13th, 2017 Phicus return to Robadors 23, this time accompanied by Joachim Badenhorst on reeds. Last time, I burbled on about “matching and contrasting tones and textures… layered and discarded in an unstoppable kineticism,” and yes, I’ll stand by those words. Phicus are carving out their own intense brand of precision disorder. Passages of glorious frenzy alternate with more meditative minimalism, and throughout there’s a constant energy, a seething potential being tapped and channelled. With the variety of extended techniques on display from all four musicians, it’s difficult sometimes to identify which alien sound is produced by whom but to give a flavour… Read the complete review at the author’s blog. Text by Dave Foxall, from his blog: http://ajazznoise.com/phicus1-13th-ju…

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New youtube chanel: DELICATESSEN

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This is a chanel where I will share music related works that have had a strong influence on me , and so I consider them as “delicatessen”. I will not include the most obvious and commercial ones. No Beatles videos for instance, but less obvious stuff. I hope some of you will discover unexpected gems here. I hope you enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnDsrOofWYYpgVzsTDfEwYQ/videos Last one included: the poet of Cape Town.

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Tomorrow Never Knows by Zero de Conducta, 2017

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Warming up at the beginning of the session shattering a great tune, with the greatest respect. A divertimento with improvised words by Sir Pere Canals Miró. Not all of us were aware that the recorder was on! Zero de Conducta Montserrat Marfany, percussions Jordi offscope Buscà, Martin acoustic guitar Sir Pere Canals Miró, voice and improvised words Jaume Martín, percussions Dr Antoni Robert, electric guitar Captain Enric Solà, bass & percussions (not at the same time!) from La Joncosa Piscodèlic Session 3-6-2017 Original song by Lennon & McCartney Images from: Kinetic Circles, videomapping (Pour l’amour de l’art), Modelo: Saray Diaz 60’s Garage, Surf, Freakbeat & Psychedelic Music – Vol. 4 & 22, (GrimlyFormingPW) Seventh Sense (Excerpt) / 第七感官 (五分鐘版) (Anarchy Dance Theatre)

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FREENETICS #37 with Tura Gómez Coll. 9-7-2017

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Last session of the season, and a special one. I went with some expectations. Freenètics are well known with their well balanced powers. The raw rumble of Ferràn giant saxophone, counterposed with the delicate vibrations of Juan Antoni cello and the versatile drumming of Pep always deliver powerful and subtile performances. Add to that a passionate and athletic dancer and you have all the necessary ingredients for a great session. But reality overcame expectations. Tura’s movements were magically paced with the evolving sound of the trio, as if they had been rehersing for years. And the music was demanding; and the scenario was demanding; in such a short distance every detail is magnified. No escape. And Tura filled the space with her brave mood and her flexible and trained athlete body and her precise and quick movements. Amazing. And the musicians were all the time following her movements and closing

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Exposició: Els barris de barraques de Montjuïc, Sants i Les Corts

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Del 20 d’abril al 23 de juny, l’Arxiu Municipal de Districte ens convida a gaudir de l’exposició: Els barris de barraques de Montjuïc, Sants i Les Corts. Del 20 d’abril al 8 de setembre, l’Arxiu Municipal de Districte ens convida a gaudir de l’exposició: Els barris de barraques de Montjuïc, Sants i Les Corts. La mostra, permet al visitant conèixer aquestes construccions informals agrupades que es van constituir en autèntics barris. Aquest és un projecte que compte amb la col·laboració Comissió ciutadana per la recuperació de la memòria dels barris de barraques de Barcelona, el Centre d’Estudis de Montjuïc, el Grup de treball de memòria històrica del Districte de Sants-Montjuïc i el Districte de Sants-Montjuïc. Al llarg de tot el segle XX, moltes famílies provinents de zones més desfavorides de la península van arribar a Barcelona a la recerca de treball i un millor futur. La impossibilitat de trobar un

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BRIAN ENO: New Space Music & 77 Million Paintings at Arts Santa Mònica Barcelona 2017

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Capturing the ambient. First in the New Space Music hall, only sound, and then in the 77 Million Paintings hall, just observing and listening to the generative sounds and images. You will never ever see the featured images or listen to the recorded sounds on live, because this is generative art, and so always changing and never repetitive.

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Sweaty Bouganvillea by Zero de Conducta (2016)

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from the cd IMPROVISATION EMSEMBLAE from La Joncosa session, 6-8-2016 Montserrat Marfany, vocals & percussion Jaume Martin, guitar Dr Antoni Robert, synthesised guitar offscope Jordi Buscà, guitar & vocals Sir Pere Canals, guitar Enric Solà, drums & bouganvilleas The CD is available trough our web page. Limited to 100 numbered copies. Ask for details. Images from Cannabic Grower, Netz Tube, UndergroundBotanix

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Embryo with Walid Mahmoud Mountassir, Magia Roja, 25-2-2016

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Amb relació amb el meu precedent post. Embryo amb Walid, en la que és la avant penúltima actuació de Embryo amb Christian Burchard, el fundador. Pocs dies després un problema seriós de salud va afectar Chistian, de manera que és molt improbable que pugui tornar a tocar. Embryo continua ara sota la guia de Marja Burchard, la seva filla, i multiinstrumentista. També vol ser aquest post un homenatge a Magia Roja, local que acaba de tancar de manera indefinida fins que es puguin fer obres de insonorització. Hi ha un verkami obert a propósit, al que us encoratjo a col.laborar.

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Gnawind, tradicion y fusión.

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La música gnawa sigue siendo una gran desconocida en nuestro entorno, pese a haber seducido a músicos tan importantes como Jimmy Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Randy Weston, Embryo, Pharao Sanders y Peter Brötzmann, por citar solamente algunos nombres sobradamente conocidos en distintos ámbitos. Por lo tanto es una buena noticia que en Barcelona haya grupos que la practiquen, haciendo así posible que entremos en contacto con ella. Sin ser muy riguroso y para que el lector lo visualice cómodamente, podríamos decir que la música gnawa tiene un origen con ciertos paralelismos con respecto al origen de la música de los espirituales negros. Por desgracia en muchas épocas de la historia ha sido común el tráfico de esclavos, y una de sus fuentes principales han sido los paises del África negra occidental, sobretodo Senegal, Sudan y Mali. Así como los esclavos de estos lugares que fueron llevados a America llevaron consigo su

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FAME CHIMICA a Espai 120, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 20-5-2017

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FAME CHIMICA està format per Paloma Sánchez Castaño, Sheila Moreno Espelt, Antonio Clavijo Victori i Jennifer Moreno Espelt. Un grup d’art contemporani composat per artistes visuals i sonors, comissaris artístics i dissenyadors gràfics. Fame Chimica gira alrededor de la performance, la instalación y el ruido, probando en su girar diferentes formas contemporáneas de entender la realidad.

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