Medialab Prado

Coordinted by Daniel González Xavier

Dj Chelis + IdealWord

AVLAB Meetings present an eccentric special event: an audiovisual passage through one of Spain's most popular musical genres: the "copla”. Two artists from Aragon have joined forces for the first time, finding common ground from their personal creative repertoires to create a new audiovisual presentation that combines DJ sets and mixed video techniques.
Enrique Radigales’ (IdealWord) images accompany the sound genre Chelis calls “Coplastep”, a daring combination of dubstep and copla, premiered at the 2007 Periferias Festival in Aragon. DJ Chelis says: “In Coplastep, the first sounds I remember (when I was a child, I heard coplas at my grandmother's house) are joined with some of the latest sounds arising on the prolific electronic scene".

DJ Chelis is a pioneering artist on the Aragonese electronic scene and an active agitator in the Spanish underground. He was recently named Best DJ of 2008 by the publication RockDeluxe. His sound research and sessions have made Chelis one of the main disseminators of genres such as glitchcore, grime, and dubstep. He has taken these styles to the major electronic festivals (Sonar, Observatori, Electro2m, and Monegros Desert Festival).

http://www.myspace.com/djchelis

Enrique Radigales is a multimedia artist whose work combines intertextual and meta-narrative resources. IdealWord is a net.art project, begun in 2003, that offers a hybridization of processes and media (manufactured drawings; vectorial programmes; and ceramic, stone, and laser techniques) as a critical reflection on technological dependency. Enrique Radigales was chosen to participate in the 2005 Japan Media Art Festival and the 2006 Leandre Cristófol Art Biennale in Lleida.

http://www.idealword.orgwww.idealword.org

Proyecto Hades: Tsunami Killcore & No-Preset

Through sound control via sensors and body movement, this performer represents an element of consciousness that naturally unfolds into a series of hypnotic, gloomy, and chaotic atmospheres.

This project’s aesthetic language, based on the processing and projection of luminous sources through technological media, the use of feedback and digital error, noise sound, and real-time production, evokes landscapes of mental darkness.

Hades is a project by composer, musical producer, and multi-disciplinary artist Sofia aka Tsunami Killcore, in collaboration with the video artist and DJ from Valencia, No-Preset. Tsunami Killcore began her career as a noise/hardcore singer and guitarist, moving into experimental electronic noisism after years of experimentation with improvisation, as well as stage, visual, and sound performance projects. She is a member of Manchester’s Moss Lane East group of artists, co-producer of the Showskills electronic music festival, and a precursor of the Errortronika audiovisual experimentation network. As a sound artist and video performer, she has collaborated with Vagina Monologues and the Pusto Festival (Moscow), the Liverpool Art Biennale, the Huddersfield electro-acoustic music festival, the Ad-hoc contemporary dance group (Manchester), and Butoh artist, Wendell Wells.

http://www.errortronika.net

http://www.myspace.com/tsunamikillcore

TOCCATA & DETRAS/DES TRACES: Raphael Larre, Francesco Filidei & Baba Noriko

Noriko Baba (composer, Japan), Raphael Larre (visual artist, France), and Francesco Filidei (composite musician, Italy) are members of the artistic section at the Casa de Velazquez, where they have begun a series of collaborations..

On this occasion, they will share details about the creation of their personal work and focus on the Toccata, Detras/Des traces, and Fluxus Thing projects, in which artist and performer Martinha Maia also takes part.

Toccata is a project by visual artist Raphael Larre and composer Francesco Filidei. It is a dialogue of audiovisual gestures in which Raphael Larre uses his methods of creating drawings in movement done with analogue tools as a visual base for composer Francesco Filidei’s electro-acoustic improvisation.

Toccata is a project by visual artist Raphael Larre and composer Francesco Filidei. It is a dialogue of audiovisual gestures in which Raphael Larre uses his methods of creating drawings in movement done with analogue tools as a visual base for composer Francesco Filidei’s electro-acoustic improvisation.
The performance Fluxus Thing is a group multimedia immersion creation given in July 2007 at Casa de Velazquez. Fluxus Thing is a creative tribute to the Fluxus movement, founded in 1961.

The group will also present a video animation demo, DETRAS/DES TRACES, with incidental music by Noriko Baba for Raphael Larre’s animations.

Noriko Baba (Japan 1972) studied composition at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, carrying out projects with organizations including Orchestre Pas de loup, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and 2e2m.

Francesco Filidei (Italy 1973) graduated from the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he studied with renowned composers including Marco Stroppa, Frédéric Durieux, and Michael Levinas. He has participated in major festivals and art exhibits including the Festival d’Automne in Paris, the Archipel Festival in Geneva, and the Venice Biennale. He has played with the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra and at the new music forum in Stuttgart.

Raphael Larre (France 1978) is a visual artist with a degree from the Quimper Fine Arts School and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris. He participated in the 2007 White Night with an urban video-intervention project and recently had a solo exhibit called "Actualitraits” at the Galerie Popy Arvani in París.