SHOW US YOUR SCREEN + POETICS OF FRØ

DOUBLE CONCERT:

SHOW US YOUR SCREEN (19H)

REPERTOIRE

An improvised electronics session: IDM and Glitch with audio-reactive visuals generated with Live Coding.

ARTISTS

Citlali Hernández and Eloi Isern, Live Coding audiovisual

PROGRAMME

Transdisciplinary artist Citlali Hernández, together with live coderEloi Isern, present a session based on digital glitch and live-generated visual accompaniment. The glitch, developed by renowned artists such as Ryoji Ikeda and Oval, is based on the use of defects during the digital encoding process, which cause the appearance of failed sounds or images. These clicks and pops, which would normally be considered as errors in the audiovisual signal, are some of the elements that underpin the discourse of this show.

Hernández and Isern’s work also contains features of IDM (Intelligent Dance Music). The label—intelligent dance music— is often used to describe electronic music influenced by techno, but which at the same time explores rhythms and textures of considerable complexity. Hernández and Isern’s aesthetic operates within this domain, which exists between dance and attentive listening.

POETICS OF FRØ (20H)

ARTISTS

Barry Guy, double bass
Jordina Millà, piano
Mats Gustafsson, sax

PROGRAMME

Mats Gustafsson, Barry Guy and Jordina Millà approach improvisation from a totally acoustic perspective: saxophone, double bass and piano, respectively. However, this does not imply that the musicians play the instruments following traditional conventions, but rather that they do so by rethinking the technique and the capabilities of the instrument.

This gives rise to a highly original language, full of new and unusual sonorities. This type of free improvisation, which some masters of the genre such as Richard Barrett often refer to as “composition in real time”, celebrates the strength of the collective rather than the individual: it is music that is constructed in a group, from scratch, with the assumption that both successes and mistakes will end up forming part of the message received by the audience.