Author: Antoni Robert

“Sediment” de Lali Barrière y Ferran Fages, Crater Lab,, 5-5-2017

Foreword: Interferences that travel from down to top were not visible at the show, and are due to interference with the recording machine. So what you see in the video is not exactly what was seen at the show. I decided to publish the video anyway, because artist speaks about vertical and horizontal lines, and those unexpected patterns are horizontal, ans so do not contradict the artist aim. And furthermore hazard has a role in life, and in this case it left its fingerprint. Sediment es una serie de narraciones abstractas que combinan, con una aproximación claramente minimalista, los visuales generativos de Lali Barrière con la música estática de Ferran Fages. Los visuales hacen servir un único elemento gráfico, la línea, horizontal o vertical. El cambio de color de las líneas, muchas veces enmascarado por su lentitud, se percibe como movimiento y genera un paisaje en transformación continua. El material

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ÚRSULA SAN CRISTÓBAL, The Room, Centre Cívic Guinardó, 28-4-2017

Performance de Úrsula San Cristóbal CASTELLANO ¿La libertad del cuerpo femenino solo puede estar asociada a la desnudez? ¿Cómo construimos la imagen pública de nuestros cuerpos? ¿Es solo fruto de la aceptación pasiva de las imposiciones sociales o es producto de las reflexiones personales? ¿Quién tiene el derecho a decidir sobre la visibilidad pública del cuerpo femenino? El proyecto “La habitación” intenta abordar estas preguntas en una acción donde el cuerpo femenino es problematizado y representado a través del sonido, la voz y la escritura. La performance se elabora a partir de los testimonios de mujeres de distintas partes de Europa y Latinoamérica que han accedido a responder las preguntas arriba mencionadas. Sus voces están presentes en forma de caligrafías y de collages audiovisuales, acompañados de improvisaciones musicales y acciones físicas. Estas últimas intentan reflejar la opresión y la liberación del cuerpo femenino, mostrando que las normas sociales que han

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AVELINO SAAVEDRA at Màgia Roja, 21-4-2017

AVELINO SAAVEDRA http://avelinosaavedra.blogspot.com.es/ https://avelinosaavedra.bandcamp.com/ Avelino Saavedra, artista plàstic, músic i performer, compagina la pintura i l’art d’acció amb diversos projectes musicals, en els quals fa referències a múltiples llenguatges, com el de la música concreta, la improvisació lliure, el free jazz, el noise, etc … En els seus projectes musicals treballa amb els sons produïts per objectes, joguines electròniques manipulats i instruments de percussió. En el directe empra processadors d’efectes i, samplejant en temps real els sons que van sorgint en copejar, fregar, esquinçar i bufar a objectes com ara papers, metalls, teteres, tubs de plàstic i gongs, crea timbres, textures, intervals de so -silenci i dinàmiques, que troben el seu contrapunt en altres situacions o passatges més melòdics, evocadors i suggestius. Avelino Saavedra, plastic artist, musician and performer, he combines painting and performance art with diverse musical projects where he makes references to multiple languages like the concrete musique,

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ESCUPEMETRALLA al NIU, 6-5-2017

ESCUPEMETRALLA: among the best you can see and listen to in the Barcelona scene!! Han vuelto Muhammad y Muhammad!!!! Escupemetralla es el resultado de una serie de retrotransmisiones que se llevarán a cabo a mediados del siglo XXI en el “Thorne’s Cone Light Reversion Laboratory for Children” de Los Alamos, Texas (Estados Federales de México y Puerto Rico). En cierto modo, actualmente Escupemetralla no es más que una entidad virtual que existirá en realidad dentro de unos años. Febrero 2021: Escupemetralla crece espontáneamente en un caldo primordial de funciones y genera dos mellizos, Muhammad y Muhammad. Marzo 2022: Escupemetralla ofrece su primer espectáculo en el metaverso. Una fracción relativamente pequeña de humanos (3.000.000.000) descarga el concierto en implantes. Se venden varios millones de microcubos ópticos de administración oral con el concierto en versión 3D táctil. Julio 2025: Monte Cazazza Oldies, empresa de Los Angeles (EFMPR), contrata a Escupemetralla para labores

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My new release! Tape Noise Groove.

All sounds obtained from electronic manipulation of background noise of audio tapes and vinyl records. I play no instruments in this work. This is my second work in the “Hidden Pattern” series, dedicated to discover sound patterns in recordings apparently without them. In this case I’ve used as source just tape noise and used vinyl background noise. Previously I did it using a silent recording (Journey into the home of the pataphysical ghosts, Wet Dreams14, 2015). I find the resulting sounds mysterious and hypnotic, but the prospective listener has to bear in mind that the sounds contained in these recordings are JUST NOISE. Listen to it or download it at your own risk from: https://archive.org/details/hr092  

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RECORD OF THE DAY: EXOMUSIC 2 – Nieto, Piñango, Area, Robert, Díaz y nOn

Interesting record showing the music of some alien cultures. A honour having been invited to participate by Victor Sequi, manager of ALINA Records, musician and a clever and proactive human being. Dedicated to Mother AAOGGHAATH, the driving force of Proxima Centauri B. You can free download this record from the following link: http://alinamusica.blogspot.com.es/2017/05/exomusic-2-nieto-pinango-area-robert.html  

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Electro’SP at Sinestesia, Mark Cunningham & Miquel Jordà, 2017

Electro’SP at Sinestesia, March, 21st, 2017 Mark Cunningham: trumpet, slide trumpet & devices Miquel Jordà: alto saxophone, percussions & devices A former member of the No Wave group Mars, trumpeter Mark Cunningham graduated to a similarly experimentalist solo project during the 1990s, inspired by the arid, Middle Eastern textures of Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain. Mars’ output was quite small (four tracks on the seminal 1978 compilation No New Wave and a live album), and the band had broken up by the time of their entire back catalog was culled onto Mars 78 in 1986. Cunningham worked with two outfits, Don King and the Spanish-based Raeo, then recorded the 1997 solo album Blood River Dusk. Miquel Jordà: Multidisciplinary artist, trained as a musician, develops his work in wide creative fields such as musical composition and interpretation, video art, interactive facilities, sonorous art, photography or poetry. The subject of his work

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Janneke van der Putten a Màgia Roja, 8-4-2017

Experimentació a Màgia Roja. Els misteriosos crits de Janneke.   Janneke van der Putten (Amsterdam, 1985) is an artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her practice involves experiences of listening, performances, sound and video, documentations in image/text/textile, workshops, music projects, and creating platforms for cultural exchange. Her voice is her main tool, guiding her through physical and sonic explorations in different landscapes. Engaging with specific sites and local contexts, and through her personal experiences, she investigates (human) responses to her surroundings, and their relation to natural phenomena and transitions, such as the sunrise. Van der Putten graduated from TXT (Textile) at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and completed the Master Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art and Royal Conservatoire, The Hague. The project ‘Invisible Architecture’ together with Chrs Galarreta, for which they published a vinyl in 2014, has been presented in South-America and Europe, including at the Museo de Arte

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Walking on the meek side ( The Fresh Made Samfaina) by Zer0 de Conducta 2017

From Garcilaso 2 session (18-03-2017), and a lisergic digestion Improvised & played by Montserrat Marfany, xilophone, voice, bourou offscope Jordi Buscà, guitar & effects Sir Pere Canals, guitar & ratatouille Jaume Martín, cassiotone & drums (2nd half) Dr Antoni Robert, Blofeld synthesizer & beatstep Enric Solà, drums (1st half), Bass & mushrooms Images from Nikon D3200, Oxford Street London Walk Sight and Sounds. Zero de conducta es un grupo de música improvisada, experimental, electro-acústica, electrónica de Barcelona. Componentes: Jordi Buscà, Pere Canals, Montserrat Marfany, Jaume Martin, Antoni Robert y Enric Solà. Influencias: Krautrock, psicodelia, Canterbury sound, Indusctial, Ambient, Dadá, Contemporanea, World music Can, Amon Dül, Gong, Velvet Underground, Soft machine, Miles Davis, OME Acustic

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OME ACÚSTIC AT THE BCN IMPROFEST – 1ST MARCH 2017

As usual a very adequate comment coming from a careful observer, Dave Foxhall. Juan Crek: objects, flutes, vocals, percussion Marcelo Acosta: cavaquinho, plastic clarinet, metallophone Joana Brabo: piano, vocals, objects offscope Jordi Buscà: guitar Sir Pere Canals: piano, vocals, flutes Eli Gras: homemade instruments, toys, ukelele Montserrat Marfany: vocals, bourou, flutes, objects Jaume Martín: xylophone, glockenspiel, percussion Andrés Noarde: guitar, tibetan bowl Boris Porter: homemade slide trombone, objects Dr Antoni Robert: guitar, shakers, Tibetan bowl, tingsha, whistles Enric Solà: drums and distillates Follow the link in order to see the comment in “a jazz noise” blog. http://ajazznoise.com/ome-acustic-at-the-bcn-improfest-1st-march-2017/ Follow this link in order to listen to the concert:

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Solaris (The Living Thing) by ZER0 DE CONDUCTA (2017)

from Garcilaso 2 session 18-3-2017 Improvised and played by: Montserrat Marfany, vocals & percussion Jaume Martin, objects Dr Antoni Robert, synthesizer & sequencer offscope Jordi Buscà, guitar & electronics Sir Pere Canals, guitar Enric Solà, smoke & drums Images: from Solaris (Russian: Солярис, tr. Solyaris) a 1972 Soviet science fiction art film adaptation of Polish author Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris (1961). The film was co-written and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris. The scientific mission has stalled because the skeleton crew of three scientists have fallen into separate emotional crises. Psychologist Kris Kelvin travels to the Solaris space station to evaluate the situation only to encounter the same mysterious phenomena as the others. Natalya Bondarchuk (Hari) Donatas Banionis (Kris Kelvin)

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Thoresby Colliery Last Ride by ZERO DE CONDUCTA , 2016

Two milion Pounds underground!!  This is still there, waiting ….  A fascinating underground world build by brave people. Laphroaig and Ardbeg aroma brings me there.   from La Joncosa session, 6-8-2016 Improvised and played by: Montserrat Marfany, vocals & percussion Jaume Martin, guitar Dr Antoni Robert, synthesised guitar offscope Jordi Buscà, guitar & vocals Enric Solà, drums & distillates Images: from Glen Talbot. Two of these locos were left underground when the colliery closed, the locos cost a million pound each. Zero de conducta es un grupo de música improvisada, experimental, electro-acústica, electrónica de Barcelona. Componentes: Jordi Buscà, Pere Canals, Montserrat Marfany, Jaume Martin, Antoni Robert y Enric Solà. Influencias: Krautrock, psicodelia, Canterbury sound, Indusctial, Ambient, Dadá, Contemporanea, World music Can, Amon Dül, Gong, Velvet Underground, Soft machine, Miles Davis, OME Acustic

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The Dark Side of the Men (E Blues) by ZERO DE CONDUCTA, 2017.

This one is about hard work and anguish, and it’s obviously a blues. We want to work; we need to work; we feel lucky if we got a job; but most of us are working for the Dark Side of humankind; or should I say “unhumankind”? The Dark Side of the Men (E Blues) from Garcilaso session, 4-2-2017 Montserrat Marfany, vocals & percussion Jaume Martin, casiotone, xilophone, glockenspiel Dr Antoni Robert, synthesised guitar offscope Jordi Buscà, guitar & vocals Sir Pere Canals, guitar Enric Solà, drums & hammers Images: 1936 Footage of a Car Assembly Line, filmed at the Chevrolet Plant in Flint, Michigan, and of a Steel Industry 1944 Youngstown, Ohio. Zero de conducta es un grupo de música improvisada, experimental, electro-acústica, electrónica de Barcelona.

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ATOLÓN at TEPEKALESOUND 28-2-2017

ATOLÓN Ferran Fages: acoustic turntable, engines and objects Ruth Barberán: trumpet, amplified objects Alfredo Costa Monteiro: objects and devices at  TEPEKALESOUND  28-2-2017 After more than 8 years playing together in different improvisational contexts, it’s in 2002 that they decided to form the trio. Stable formation from Barcelona, with already 3 records in labels such as: Rossbin, Creative Sources and Esquilo. … Juggling with tension, dynamics and abrasivness, the musicians find their way through instruments like the acoustic turntable, the trumpet, the accordion and found objects. .. – Luis Jacinto

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OME Acústic Desembre dilatat remasteritzat.16-12-2016

So you can listen to the last two performances of OME Acustic, El Desembre Dilatat and Hasta Luego y Gracias por el Pescado. Àudio remasteritzat per Antoni Robert. Sessió en directe de OME Acústic en el festival de Andromina n.5 (Bar de la Sala Pal.ladius de Pallejà). OME Acústic: Pere Canals, Antoni Robert, Jordi Buscà, Enric Solà i Juan Crek. Una sessió enèrgica de OME Acustic al festival Andròmina de Pallejà, organitzat per Primo Gabbiano. Intensitat i energía.

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OME Acústic (last performance) Hasta luego y gracias por el pescado. 1-3-2017

Shared from OME Acustic channel. Sessió en directe (en el Impro Fest 2017), amb la participació de Juan Crek, Andrés Noarde, Boris Porter, Eli Gras, Jordi Buscà, Marcelo Acosta, Joana Brabo, Pere Canals, Enric Solà, Jaume Martín, Montserrat Marfany, Antoni Robert i la inestimable presencia i dibuixos de Joan Claparols. 1 de març de 2017 This was OME Acústic farewell performance. A quiet but intense performance. A pleasure having been a member for more than one year. 6 unforgettable sessions. This one came out a bit meditative.

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Here it is! IMPROVISATION EMSEMBLAE by Zer0 de Conducta

We have just published the IMPROVISATION EMSEMBLAE CD in a limited edition of 100 numbered and personalized copies in the graphic part, according to the tradition of the graphic work of the plastic artists. A small part of these 100 copies is available to anyone who is interested and wants to collaborate in the continuity of this project. For details, please send us a private message or leave a comment, and we will answer you. Thank you very much. ZER0 DE CONDUCTA   ZER0DECONDUCTA – #1 From a Jazz Noise, by Dave Foxhall Montserrat Marfany – voice, percussion, slide guitar offScope Jordi Buscà – guitar, bass, voice, effects & distractions Sir Pere Canals – guitar, bass, percussion Jaume Martín – guitar, synthesized guitar, percussion, glockenspiel, xylophone Dr. Antoni Robert – synthesized guitar, bass, IC4039 synthesizer, percussion Captain Enric Solà – drums, percussion, bass, distillates Living Fast Let’s Dance Careful with

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BCN Impro Fest, 14-2-2017 Memoria Uno at CC Albareda

BCN, Impro Fest 2017 Ramón Prats, Juan Berbín, Vasco Trilla, Martín Leiton, Marc Cuevas, Àlex Reviriego, Dani Pérez, Diego Caicedo, Hilario Rodeiri, Joan Bages, Ferran Besalduch, Don Malfon, Tom Chant, Albert Cirera, Joan Mas, Marcel.li Bayer, Vicent Pérez, Pablo Selnik, Ilona Schneider, Iván González – conducció. Cortesia de free sound art.

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MAMMAMAGMA by Zer0 de Conducta from Garcilaso session 4-2-2017

From Garcilaso session (4-2-2017) Improvised and played by: Montserrat Marfany, voice & toys OffScope Jordi Buscà, acoustic guitar & distractions Sir Pere Canals, guitar & voice Jaume Martín, cassiotone & percussions Dr. Antoni Robert, synthesised guitar & percussions Enric Fluid Solà, drums & flows Images: filmed in Hawaii from the Kilauea volcano. Producer/photography: Tyler Hulett Associate producers: Lance Page & Wesley Young © 2016 Discover Oregon and also a surge of lava spews out of a rupture in the lava tube system and is heading down steep cliffs, or pali in Hawaiian. This strong flow is being supplied lava from Kilauea Volcano’s Pu`u O`o Crater four miles to the northwest. The rupture was at the 1600-foot elevation about four miles northwest of Kalapana Gardens, and directly above the old Royal Gardens subdivision. Further down the mountain I shot the rough a`a lava and chunky pahoehoe lava river, and at the

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Trance two: Remote Planet Seaside Echoes by Antoni Robert (2017)

TRANCE MUSIC Thrmn 011 2017 Mi intención es que escuchando este trabajo (y más todavía viéndolo y escuchándolo al mismo tiempo) uno experimente un “trance” que conlleve necesariamente una suspensión del sentido del tiempo y unas sensaciones muy primordiales. La manera ideal de experimentarlo es viendo el video en una pantalla grande, con dos muros de altavoces a los lados, a volumen alto y la habitación a oscuras. De este modo uno puede sentir con la suficiente intensidad el latido del Sol y vibrar con él, quizás como oíamos y sentíamos los latidos del corazón de nuestra madre antes de nacer. De modo parecido podemos sumergirnos en un momento en el que la vida bulle en el agua de un planeta lejano, como lo hizo en el nuestro hace muchos años. Y precisamente en el momento en que la vida lucha por salir del Mar y conquistar la Tierra. Sol,

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Trance One: Heartbeat of the Sun, by Antoni Robert (2017)

Mi intención es que escuchando este trabajo (y más todavía viéndolo y escuchándolo al mismo tiempo) uno experimente un “trance” que conlleve necesariamente una suspensión del sentido del tiempo y unas sensaciones muy primordiales. La manera ideal de experimentarlo es viendo el video en una pantalla grande, con dos muros de altavoces a los lados, a volumen alto y la habitación a oscuras. De este modo uno puede sentir con la suficiente intensidad el latido del Sol y vibrar con él, quizás como oíamos y sentíamos los latidos del corazón de nuestra madre antes de nacer. De modo parecido podemos sumergirnos en un momento en el que la vida bulle en el agua de un planeta lejano, como lo hizo en el nuestro hace muchos años. Y precisamente en el momento en que la vida lucha por salir del Mar y conquistar la Tierra. Sol, Mar y Tierra son los

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Impro & Draw Ensemble & Friends, 8-2-2017 CC Albareda, Barcelona BCN Impro Fest 2017

Segón acte de BCN ImproFest 2017. Continua la imaginació, la creativitat i la improvisació.   Úrsula San Cristóbal flautes i veu, Carlo Mezzino, sintetitzador modular, Joâo Braz, violoncel, Miquel Jordà, saxo manipulat i infrainstruments Joma, dibuixant amb el carbó i els pinzells Mark Cunningham, trompeta, Jesús Asenjo, acordió , Nuno Rebelo, guitarra, Rosa Soler, Flauta baixa, Josu Izco, clarinet, Patxi Valera, percussions Javier Caballero, poesía Impro & Draw Ensemble és un grup d’improvisació format per Úrsula San Cristóbal flautes i veu, Carlo Mezzino, piano, sintetitzador modular i teclats, Joâo Braz, violoncel, Miquel Jordà, saxo manipulat i infrainstruments, i Joma, dibuixant amb el carbó i els pinzells. El quintet rep sovint altres improvisadors convidats formant la Impro & Draw Orquestra. L’objectiu de la investigació que s’ha proposat l’Impro&Draw Ensemble és acostar al màxim els instruments musicals i els de dibuix buscant una mena d’uníson plàstico-musical improvisat que es retroalimenta contínuament. Els

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