MENDRA at El Pumarejo Barcelona, 19-11-2017
Paula Olivé, guitar & vocals, Sofía Ana Martori, bass, Víctor Álvarez, drums
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FREENETICS SESSION #39 GUEST SARAH CLAMAN at Studium, Badalona 5-11-2017
Joan Antoni Pich cello , Pep Mula drums , Ferran Besalduch saxophones , Sarah Claman, violin
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Eli Gras at TePeKaLeSOUND Hospitalet, 24-10-2017
The intriguing and disturbing side of Eli Gras. Eli Gras (Barcelona, 1971) es una artista multidisciplinar y autodidacta. Es diseñadora de comics, libros para niños, animación, además de creadora de sus propios instrumentos musicales y compositora e intérprete.
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Tom Chant, Don Malfon, Johannes Nästesjö, Oriol Roca, at Sinestesia, Barcelona 12-12-2017
SOM-HI? SOM-HI! CICLE DE MUSICA IMPROVISADA amb la col·laboració de Marianne Brull. A Free Dream Team: Tom Chant, sax Don Malfon (Alfonso Muñoz), sax Johannes Nästesjö, doublebass Oriol Roca, drums at Sinestesia, Barcelona 12-12-2017
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Fame Chimica, Performance a Antic Teatre, 28-11-2017
Visual Pal , Sheila M Espelt, Jennifer M Espelt, Primo Gabbiano. Fame Chimica es un grupo híbrido de arte contemporáneo especializado en acciones performánticas, instalaciones audiovisuales y arte, formado por Paloma Sánchez, Sheila Moreno, Jennifer Moreno y Antonio Clavijo. Artistas visuales y sonoros, comisarios artísticos y diseñadores gráficos que muestran diferentes formas contemporáneas de entender la realidad. Antonio Clavijo Victori es un músico y artista visual de Barcelona que como Primo Gabbiano explora la faceta más experimental de la música, utilizando drones, paisajes sonoros, noise, ambient y electrónica primitiva. Su puesta en escena es marcadamente visual, y muy cercana a la instalación. Paloma Sánchez Castaño es Visual Pal, artista visual de Barcelona. Su carrera artística se desarrolla en la realización de piezas videográficas, instalaciones audiovisuales y directos como VJ.
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Judith Cunillera & Miquel Jordà, at Porta Roja al Poble Sec Barcelona, 10-12-2017
The masques of Judith Cunillera and the sounds of Miquel Jordà. The masques were done in Perú by Judith using refuse materials collected at the biggest dump of Perú. Miquel Jordà plays “La casa del fin del mundo” at the opening for the exhibition “Entre dos mundos ” by Judith Cunillera, at Porta Roja al Poble Sec, Barcelona, 10-12-2017.
Continue readingElèctroX: Mark Cunningham & Miquel Jordà at Sinestesia, Barcelona, 19-09-2017
Duo of trumpeter Mark Cunningham and saxonphonist Miquel Jordà. Two electronically processed wind instruments engaged in a musical discourse rich in phrase and nuance. Cunningham and Jordá, two improvisational veterans reunited in this new project. ElèctroX “…Music without age, nationality, papers or obligations – free and carefree. The Valencian marks the coordinates and the New Yorker, the depth. Sax and trumpet elevated into a cosmic procession with echoes of Bezet…” Nando Cruz – El Periodico de Catalunya – July 2017 https://electroxmusic.tumblr.com/
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WRECK de Pietro Marullo, Sala Hiroshima, 16-11-2017
Lista de especies extintas es un desempeño interdisciplinario que incorpora el movimiento, el sonido y las artes visuales. Un inmenso plástico negro como una escultura blanda (como una almohada) y la inflación de aire, se mueve en el espacio. Como un cazador. Este objeto es abstracto y tiene un poder evocador. Traga y escupe seres humanos, cuerpos desnudos; podríamos considerarlo como una alegoría de Leviatán y un monstruo legendario submarino, una metáfora del capitalismo, y las mismas condiciones humanas. Tiene el poder de amplificar la imaginación de quién está observado y de quién realiza la práctica, la acción directa en katarsis, de multiplicar asociaciones y capas conceptuales.
Continue readingALXSNJRJO at NIU November, 18th, 2017
Completando el programa de la presentación del cd de ESCUPEMETRALLA, ‘POISON OF DEAD SUN IN YOUR BRAIN SLOWLY FADING’. alxsnjrjo es zooartista, un rumiante mercantilizado violentado contra su propia naturaleza. Propicia eventos digitales en donde cohabita el ser humano y el animal. Bajo la tutela del galerista Rinos Keros del West End de Londres ha podido desprenderse del apego al exceso de cultura. Aunque ha editado ya varios albums en Bandcamp, y su más reciente creación, ‘7 Days’, fue publicada en Nøvak, sus actuaciones son escasas. alxsnjrjo presentará Fluir, una instalación audiovisual e interactiva que huye de la teodicea, astucia insidiosa que nos blinda de la sobreactuada razón y fe.
Continue readingSETSFREE at TepekaleSound, Barcelona September, 30th, 2017
SETSFREE Ramon Solé, guitarra Rafa Zaragoza, guitarra Agustí Martínez, saxo Eduard Altaba, contrabaix Quicú Samsó, bateria
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Continue readingPELEALTRAMUCES Y ALMUERCEPASTEL at NIU, Barcelona 18-11-2017
PELEALTRAMUCES Y ALMUERCEPASTEL , Alter ego de Muhammad & Muhammad, ESCUPEMETRALLA. PELEALTRAMUCES Y ALMUERCEPASTEL Dos advenedizos músicos folk reciclados a la electrónica más tétrica, interpretarán a su manera algunos temas del nuevo cd de Escupemetralla, ‘Poison of Dead Sun in Your Brain Slowly Fading’, editado por Nøvak. Los críticos más osados han escrito que Pelealtramuces y Almuercepastel son los Arroyito y Pozuelón de la música electrónica ibérica de pata negra, sin aclarar si es por su desparpajo, por su provecta edad, o porque aparecen en escena con Dame Veneno de Los Chunguitos y un mondadientes en la boca. Usando claroscuros laberínticos y texturas torturadas, el dúo entreteje con precisión de orfebre paisajes ciclotrónicos que luego vuelven del revés infinitas veces cual sonora cinta de Moebius. En su primera aparición pública, más allá de conciertos ‘a medida’ en salones privados y en flash-mobs en cloacas del subsuelo de les Glòries Catalanes, Pelealtramuces
Continue readingESCUPEMETRALLA at NIU 18-11-2017, Barcelona
ESCUPEMETRALLA are Muhammad & Muhammad. This concert will happen in 2025. Un quinteto de metales pesados que tocará, por fin, algunos de los temas incluidos en su flamante cd en llamas, ‘Poison of Dead Sun in Your Brain Slowly Fading’, y en su no menos flambeado single ‘Pastel de Insectos’, ambos pulcramente editados por Nøvak.
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La pell escrita, a la sala Atrium, 12-11-2017
Deliciosa delicatessen. Recomanada! Direcció: Manel Dueso. Dramatúrgia: Manel Bonany. Intèrpret: Míriam Marcet. La defensa de la identitat transsexual és l’eix d’aquest monòleg del guionista i escriptor Manel Bonany en una trama on es donen la mà una tendra història d’amor i una altra de caire ‘gore’, doncs no en va la víctima reposa sobre la llitera d’una institució forense. Des de la mort, com en un somni, la dona rememora la passió del seu jove amant al temps que s’espanta per l’entrada a l’edifici dels amics d’aquell que només volen saber si era o no era una dona. A la fi, un assetjament postmortem que cal sumar a la incomprensió que la transsexualitat va deparar a la protagonista al llarg de la seva vida. No obstant, el text té un interessant punt positiu per la convicció que mostra el personatge, la seva solidesa mental i, sobretot, la seva capacitat per
Continue readingCosmic Generator, by Mika Rottenberg (1976 Buenos Aires, lives in New York); artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
Material: Asian shop, video (ca. 20 min.), plastic objects, street sign Mika Rottenberg’s (* 1976 Buenos Aires; lives in New York) film installations explore the seduction, magic, and desperation of our hyper-capitalistic, globally connected reality. Female workers produce goods in strange factories that follow elaborate manufacturing rationales. Rottenberg’s cinematic works, which have a surrealistic aesthetic and are rigidly structured in a spatial sense, emphasize the interrelation between labour, economics, and the production of value, and how our affective relationships are increasingly monetized. The artist weaves documentary elements with fiction to create complex allegories for the living conditions experienced within our global systems. See more here: https://www.skulptur-projekte.de/#/En/Projects/2017/837/ROTTENBERG
Continue readingBenz Bonin Burr, by Cosima von Bonin + Tom Burr (1962 Mombasa & 1963 New Haven); artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
Material: Low-loader, wooden crate, safety ropes Strategies of cooperation, appropriation, and compilation are characteristic of Cosima von Bonin’s (* 1962 Mombasa; lives in Cologne) mixed-media installations. She navigates the viewer through a sea of references with her subtle humour, bringing influences ashore without any apparent effort and involving artist friends and historical perspectives in her exhibitions. Energized by Conceptual Art and Pop Art, her work keeps touching on key figures like Martin Kippenberger or Mike Kelley and makes countless references to cinema, literature, music, fashion, design, and lifestyles. In this way, her artwork presents itself more as the result of traditional tendencies, networks, and recurrences than as an original, individual artistic gesture. The large-scale arrangements, often in the form of animal motifs, mirror the conventions and rules of the art world and address von Bonin’s artistic identity within a network of relationships, dependencies, and role models. See more here: https://www.skulptur-projekte.de/#/En/Projects/2017/818/Von+Bonin_BURR
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MORPHEUS at Sinestesia (Barcelona) Alba Tor & Miquel Jordà. 27/10/2017
MORPHEUS at Sinestesia Bar Musical · Barcelona Alba Tor, voz e interpretación, Miquel Jordà música y performer. Duo de voz y música de creación instantánea, inspirado en la obra de F. Kafka, La Metamorfosis. Una aproximación al mundo de las tinieblas, interpretación y música en estado libre. Performance sono quántica…El despertar del mito…
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TOPLESS AMERICA: Alba Raventós, Alicia Soler, Uma Maraval, Trinidad García, Conrado Parodi, at L’Estruch (Sabadell) 21/10/2017
A rehersal with an audience of a quintet with 4 contact dance improvisers, using all the available resources, music, video, lights, shadows, voices, poetry and bodies. A fresh wind flow by this young and highly promising company. La peça flueix a través del contact improvisation i neix d’una premissa: com crear descartant elements que no s’utilitzarien per a la versió final. A càrrec de Col·lectiu Deria + Rectificadora La multisexualitat, el patriarcat, el postfeminisme, la incomoditat, el gènere, les minories… Tot és qüestionat, revisat, remogut i reinterpretat per l’equip artístic de Colectivo Deria + Rectificadora en una proposta titulada Topless America. La peça coreogràfica flueix a través del contact improvisation i neix d’una premissa: com crear a base d’anar descartant elements que no s’utilitzarien per a la versió final d’una obra. Què interessa de les “preses falses”? Saber el perquè del rebuig i de la censura exercida pel creador (si
Continue readingPassage through Moondog / Quiet Storm, by Emeka Ogboh (1977 Enugu, lives in Berlin and Lagos); artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
Material: Sound installation (soundscapes, Couplets by Moondog, Trimba music, 16 speakers) As his contribution to Sculpture Projects, Ogboh has developed a sound concept for the Hamburger Tunnel, an underground passageway next to Münster’s main station. Based on the compositions and poems of the legendary American musician Moondog, he uses, among other things, material recorded on the Trimba by Moondog’s close friend Stefan Lakatos. The instrument was invented by Moondog—a blind street musician, who was born Louis Thomas Hardin (1916–1999)—and it is characteristic of the pieces he began composing in the late 1940s. According to the obituary written by his old New York flatmate Philip Glass, he was one of the most influential nonconformists of his time, an associate of Leonard Bernstein, and a source of inspiration for the composer Artur Rodziński. Thanks to his intense involvement with rhythm, melody, and language, Moondog wrote several hundred two-line poems (Couplets) in addition to
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Font de l’Estrangulador, a Sant Cugat del Vallès (22-10-2017) (nº 71 del catàleg)
Una de les 124 fonts visitades pel Drac i jo. One of the 124 fountains visited by Drac and me. Conjunt format per dues deus separades uns tres metres, entre les quals hi ha uns esglaons; ambdues deus estan encastades al marge i una d’elles te una pica al nivell del terra. Un tub és d’acer i l’altre de plàstic; els dos ragen. Està situada a la llera del torrent de la Salamandra.
Continue readingNEW RECORD!! ZERO DE CONDUCTA & DAVE JACKSON, ZEROTONINE 2.0
Listen or download it here: https://antonirobertgadea.bandcamp.com/album/zero-de-conducta-dave-jackson-zerotonine-20 Recorded between March and September, 2017, in Barcelona and Sheffield (UK). Produced by Zero de Conducta & Dave Jackson Artwork by Jordi Buscá Dave Jackson released October 20, 2017 Dave Jackson, alto saxophone, clarinet Montserrat Marfany, percussions, glockenspiel, xilophone, voice, bourou, objects Jordi offscope Buscà, Martin acoustic guitar, effects, VoxLabEchoes & loops, voice Sir Pere Canals Miró, Roland synthesizer, electric guitar Jaume Martín, guitar, xilophone & harmonica, cassiotone, percussions Dr Antoni Robert, Fender Squire synthesized, guitar, Roland GR-55, Blofeld synthesizer & beatstep, percussions Captain Enric Solà, drums and percussions, bass & spirits
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Get it here: https://antonirobertgadea.bandcamp.com/album/zerodeconducta-2-piscod-lic-emsemblae Montserrat Marfany, percussions, glockenspiel, xilophone, voice, bourou Jordi offscope Buscà, Martin acoustic guitar, effects, VoxLabEchoes & loops Sir Pere Canals Miró, Roland synthesizer, guitar & freshly made ratatouille Jaume Martín, xilophone & harmonica, cassiotone & drums Dr Antoni Robert, Fender Squire synthesized, guitar, Roland GR-55, Blofeld synthesizer & beatstep Captain Enric Solà, drums and percussions, bass & mushrooms
Continue readingNEW VIDEO! Steppin’in’n’out (The dance of the bowlers) by Zer0 de Conducta, 2017
Improvised & played by: offscope Jordi Buscà, Martin guitar, echoLab, mac, loops, Jaume Martín, Roland piano, Montserrat Marfany, voice & objects, Lieutenant Enric Solà, drums, percussions, tea & sympathy, Sir Pere Canals, synthesized guitar, Dr Antoni Robert, Blofeld synth, sequencer, home made synth. from Garcilaso session, 16-09-2017 Visit our bandcamp site: https://antonirobertgadea.bandcamp.com/releases Images from: Hans Richter, 1928 Dadaist Film Man Ray, Le Retour a la Raison (1923) Maya Deren remix of Le Squelette joyeux, 1943 Auguste & Louis Lumière, Le Squelette joyeux (1895) Marcel Duchamp – Anemic Cinema, 1926 Martin Fish – N.O.Z.E.R.O – Viking Eggeling’s Symphonie Diagonale experimental film (1924) NOSEYBONK stop motion animation with creepy ass dolls WALTZINBLACK, 2013 Rhythmus 21 (1921) By Hans Richter VHS VCR Interference Noise, Pauls Vids, 2014
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PRIMO GABBIANO & EMILIANO HERNÁNDEZ-SANTANA a Gràcia Territori Sonor Barcelona, LEM, 12-10-2017
Feliç encontre el d’aquests dos inquiets artistes, Emiliano Hernández-Santana (EHS, Veneçuela) i Antonio Clavijo Victori, aka Primo Gabbiano (Barcelona). EHS és artista plàstic i experimentador sonor i de vídeo. Després de participar de l’escena electrònica de Nova York, torna a Veneçuela i es converteix en pioner de l’escena Netlabel al continent americà, fundant segells com ara Microbio i Angustia. Ha participat a festivals a Amèrica i Europa. Primo Gabbiano és músic i artista visual. Explora la faceta més experimental de la música, emprant drons, paisatge sonor, noise, ambient i electrònica primitiva. El 2012 va guanyar el Primer Premi de la Taula de les Arts Visuals de Manresa per Contradansa. Col·labora amb el grup d’art contemporani Fame Chimica. EHS i Gabbiano habiten en una intersecció sonora. Electrònica, sorolls, noise, textures. Formalment, és el fragment allò que excita la intuïció i possibilita la dialèctica de música, paraula, gest i silenci.
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Marginal Frieze, by Sany (Samuel Nyholm) (1973 Lund); artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
Fallande ting, Pyrographic series in the Münster / Marl urban space Sany’s work Marginal Frieze for the Skulptur Projekte links two different areas. On the one hand, a multi-part mural is being exhibited in the urban space, while, on the other, his cartoons are part of the exhibition’s accompanying advertising campaign: his work is being circulated as film trailers, on banners, bags, flyers, and stickers—as a patchwork of subliminal media fragments with a wide range of influence in the public space. For his Fallande ting Sany is installing large-sized pyrographies on the walls of several buildings in Münster and Marl, showing individual falling figures. For this project he turns to familiar characters from his cosmos of images: with Estrid, the Valkyrie, and Yggdrasil, the World Tree, he re-interprets two figures from Nordic mythology, who are joined by the monkey Apis and the Greek artist Stavros. See more here: https://www.skulptur-projekte.de/#/En/Projects/2017/832/SANY
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4 de 9 amb folre by Castellers de Barcelona, 8-10-2017
While thousands of spanish unionists were rallying against Catalonia right to decide on its future, catalans were happily enjoying their traditions. This is a beautiful example of human castles or towers building (Castellers) performed by the oldest group of Castellers of Barcelona, the Castellers of Barcelona. In the pictures you can follow step by step the building of a tower called “4 de 9 amb folre”. It means that the tower main body is formed by a group of 4 people in all levels (except the three highest ones), and the total tower height is 9 levels of people, and with folre means that the second level is helped by additional people that help to support the structure. The pictures were taken in Sarrià, an old town now integrated in Barcelona as a quarter. A really charming place. In the following pictures you can see the step by step process
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Sculpture, by Peles Empire; artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
Material: Dibond, ceramic tiles, galvanized steel, Jesmonite Peles Empire are: Katharina Stöver * 1982 Gießen, lives in Berlin Barbara Wolff * 1980 Fogarasch, lives in Berlin For Skulptur Projekte, Peles Empire has erected a gable, nearly eight metres high, in the immediate vicinity of the city’s historic centre. The gable’s tiled façade shows an image of the castle’s crumbling terrace as well as the supports that keep it from collapsing. The façade is braced by poles and propped against a stepped volume, whose surface is covered with black-and-white streaks, mimicking a stone surface. This surface visually anticipates the Jesmonite bar inside. Both are black and white and thus create the effect of a photocopy. The object, which is located in a carpark, is not just for viewing from the outside—it can also be entered. The first impression suggests some intrinsic value, but this is misleading: what looks magnificent and solid
Continue readingLes masques célèstes [Celestial Masks], by Hervé Youmbi (1973 Bangui); artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
Material: Wood, glass beads, wood glue, cotton thread, silicone Youmbi’s installation is located in the disused Überwasser cemetery, near General Ludwig Roth von Schreckenstein’s grave. Suspended among the trees, four massive masks appear to hover some ten metres from the ground. Another four, smaller masks are mounted directly on the trees. Les Masques célèstes incorporates iconography from popular Western capitalist culture: immediately apparent is the Ghostface mask—from the American horror film Scream (1996)—which was in turn inspired by Edvard Munch’s 1893 painting. This icon of fear is juxtaposed with animistic tokens from many traditional African cultures. According to Youmbi, these animate the spirits of the dead by inviting them to enter and possess the masks during celebratory ceremonies. Youmbi commissioned the masks from workshops in Cameroon. His intervention at a Christian burial site, a location for the commemoration of the dead, raises questions about religion, spirituality, and superstition. Youmbi’s work highlights the objects and
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Beliebte Stellen / Privileged Points, by Nairy Baghramian (1971 Isfahan); artwork for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
Material: Lacquered bronze, metal, lashing chain, tensioning devices, rubber Baghramian chose one of the top locations in Münster for her work Beliebte Stellen / Privileged Points: the Erbdrostenhof (a baroque palace built by Johann Conrad Schlaun in 1757). In the palace forecourt she has placed an elegantly curved bronze landmark, consisting of three slender but heavy, interconnecting elements. They are held together by visible clamps and propped up in a few spots on the courtyard’s cobblestones. The open circle, measuring a diameter of approximately five metres, is explicitly interrupted by the dimensions of the objects, whose bronze casting makes for an optimal result. In the palace’s rear courtyard (which can be accessed from the St Servatii church square), six similar sculpture elements are piled up and can be used to assemble two more Beliebte Stellen / Privileged Points. See more here: https://www.skulptur-projekte.de/#/En/Projects/2017/816/BAGHRAMIAN
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