15th AVLAB Meeting
Place: Medialab-Prado. Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 · Madrid
Coordinated by Daniel González Xavier
With Andrés Noarbe, Adolfo Núñez and Mario Bastian
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Program
Andrés Noarbe (Rotor Discos / Geometrik): Independent networks for exchanging cassette tapes in the 1980s
Adolfo Núñez (LIEM/CDMC): Symphonic and electroacoustic compositions
Mario Bastian (HybridaRT): Between VJing and Live Cinema
Andrés Noarbe
Independent networks for exchanging cassette tapes in the 1980s
In 1985, Andrés Noarbe founded the first independent label arising in Spain specializing in electronic music: Discos Esplendor Geométrico and its cassettes division, EGK. Soon afterward, he created ROTOR, a pioneering organization in the promotion and specialized sales of this kind of music.
During his participation in the AVLAB Meeting, he will tell us about historical details and how the underground movement of small independent labels for cassettes worked, which experienced a boom in the early 1980s, mainly due to Avant-Garde music. It was an international phenomenon which led to the creation of an extensive worldwide network for information exchange, collaborations among musicians, and sales by mail. It offers an example of self-management rooted in the “Do It Yourself” philosophy espoused by the original Punk movement and in the work of pioneering independent labels like Industrial Records.
www.vinyl-on-demand.com/Tapes_D_K-1-296.htm
Adolfo Núñez
Different Materials; the Same Listeners. Transversality among electroacoustic and symphonic compositionsAdolfo Núñez will present his works, Parafernalia (for guitar and harpsichord) and Jurel (electroacoustic music), to demonstrate that there is no difference in his production between what is known as symphonic music and electroacoustic music. Both pieces offer solutions to the same temporal structure, demonstrating that, regardless of the media or labels we assign to our music, the problem remains the same: how to articulate sounds in time to create meaning.
His work includes symphonic, electroacoustic, and computer music. His background as a composer is extensive in musical and sound creation combining various worlds and media, such as acoustic instruments, algorithms, electroacoustics, and techno-science. He is also interested in the relation between the visual arts and installations.
Mario Bastian
Mario Bastian (León, Spain, 1968) has an extensive background in the field of video-creation, interactive design, and photography. He alternates collaborations with international design agencies with video-creation and the production of audiovisual pieces committed to contemporary philosophical concepts. His work falls within the wide spectrum of Live Cinema, with creations generated in real time based on information technology systems he has designed.
In his live performances as VJBastian, contemporary philosophical concepts are a recurring theme, with Post-Humanism, Queer Theory, extropy, dystopy, cyberpunk culture, and post-digital attitudes among the sources of his inspiration. He has distanced himself from mass media codes and homogenizing digital artifice and generates his own visual language in which the body and machines have special relevance in his research in the field of the representation-reinvention of the body. He uses technology based on the idea of creating his own representation instrument based on platforms such as MaxMSP-Jitter, Isadora, and Quartz Composer.
In his intervention, Mario Bastián will present a work methodology based on a philosophical concept, which develops through a creative process based on the use of technology as an open instrument for experimentation. As an example, he will show his work H5n1, a video-creation piece in real time with the following as starting off points: Infection, TRANSmutation, and PROpagation.