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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
Continue readingNocturna Discordia 120, Barcelona, 17-5-2017 Pablo Selnik, flute El Pricto, sax Naná Rovira, bass clarinet Diego Caicedo, guitar Vasco Trilla, drums Johannes Nästesjö, doublebass
Continue readingAmb 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.
Continue readingLa 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
Continue readingFAME 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.
Continue readingPrimer cd de G.O.S., ‘Stimulation’ (NVK031), casi 24 años después. ¿Regreso al futuro? ¿Justicia divina discográfica? 2017 es extraño, muy extraño. Y lo celebrarán resucitando en directo, por única vez en Niu.
Continue readingForeword: 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
Continue readingIván Edwards, saxo soprano Sebastián Vidal, guitarra Carlo Mezzino, piano Francesco Rizzo, batería y percusiónes Miquel Jordá, saxo alto. Música improvisada con corazón y sentimientos. Una historia musical, basada en una carta de corazones encontrada por azar.
Continue readingNocturna Discordia # 116, with: El Pricto, alto sax Diego Caicedo, electric guitar Mariano Camarasa, piano Jesper Nordberg, doublebass Avelino Saavedra, drums Classy and energetic free music!!
Continue readingPerformance 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
Continue readingAVELINO 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,
Continue readingAgustí Martínez, alto sax Eduard Altaba, double bass Quicu Samsó, drums The real Power Trio of free jazz!!! Killer team taking advantage of the natural reverb of the venue. Amazing! Check their records! https://discordianrecords.bandcamp.co… https://discordianrecords.bandcamp.co… https://discordianrecords.bandcamp.co…
Continue readingESCUPEMETRALLA: 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
Continue readingAll 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
Continue readingInteresting 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
Continue readingAs the title says, Dave Jackson As It Is. Intense and essential. Like trying to extract from the saxophone the real definitive sound. https://davejackson.bandcamp.com/ https://electronicmusik.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/todays-featured-download-psychiatric-challenge-with-lol-coxhill/
Continue readingElectro’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
Continue readingExperimentació 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
Continue readingFrom 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
Continue readingLink al podcast de la entrevista: http://llumsdetunguska.blogspot.com.es/2017/03/llums-de-tunguska-programa-67-29-03-2017.html?spref=fb Gràcies al Joan Parera i a Joan Parera
Continue readingAs 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:
Continue readingfrom 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)
Continue readingTwo 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
Continue readingThis 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.
Continue readingATOLÓN 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
Continue readingSutilissimo. Almudena Vega, flauta Jordina Millà, piano Miriam Fèlix, cello Nocturna Discordia # 108 15/02/2017 Soda Acústic Los Ángeles de El Pricto entran en acción. Still in the women day, a women free trio, or a free women trio. Subtel, very subtel and delightful.
Continue readingSo 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.
Continue readingShared 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.
Continue readingWe 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
Continue readingBCN, 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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