Medialab Prado

 

 

This AVLAB Meeting is held as part of the collaborative ongoing activities generated by AVLAB and Experimentaclub, starting with the the AVLAB 1.0 workshop.

The 16th AVLAB Meeting’s programme includes three Latin American artists from Argentina, Brazil y Chile. The Meeting will also see the fruits of the first collaboration with the South American Limb0 (Laboratorio de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias - Buenos Aires) project, which, through a cultural exchange programme, managed jointly with Experimentaclub, enables Latin American artists to take part in cultural events in Spain.

The Experimentaclub festival has been held at La Casa Encendida from 2 to 5 October. The event brought together a large number of international experimental music projects each year. This year, two sound and inter-media art installations developed in the AVLAB 1.0 workshop had been presented:  W_space…, by Tom Tlalim and Paola Tognazzi, and Bri 2.0 by Marcel Bilurbina Camps and Raul Díaz Poblete.

http://www.experimentaclub.com

http://www.limb0.org

 

Programme

· Wilson Sukorski (São Paulo - Brasil): Creative Processes and Invention Music

· Félix Lazo (Santiago - Chile): Six Studies for an Empty Work

· 1605munro - Andrés Jankowski (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Electronic Avant Laptop: From Individual Musical Use to Collective Orchestral Instrumentation

 

Wilson Sukorski (São Paulo - Brasil)

Creative Processes and Invention Music

With his participation in the AVLAB Meeting, Wilson Sukorski will offer an overview of his career, using as a starting point the concept of invention music, a widespread concept within experimental music.
He will provide a chronological account via his projects of his participation in the context of art and technology during the 1980s and his sound installations, multimedia concerts, and current collaborative projects. As examples of his creative background, he will share projects with us such as: PTYX, a telephone connection between two spaces; Música Pessoal, which uses artificial intelligence tools in automatic composition, and DDI - Descrição de Imagem (90, with texts by Heiner Muller and Somcilotto, where he added sound to pictorial works by concrete artist Luiz Sacilotto.

Wilson Sukorski is one of Brazil’s most outstanding artists in the field of experimental music and sound art. He is a composer, a digital audio researcher, and multimedia performer. He creates and produces sound contents for radio, film, experimental videos, sound installations, and urban art.

His recent projects include: Amazone War (soundtrack for a project by the artist José Wagner Garcia – ZKM Karlsruhe), Orchestra de Laptops de S.Paulo (File – Hipersônica, São Paulo), Symphonia da Metrópole (Jerusalem Film Archive). Currently, he is carrying out research for developing the opera PRNY – Proyecto para una Revolución en New York (Project for a Revolution in New York). The project, winner of an award from PAC / ICMS de Música 07- has texts by Alain Robbe Grillet, about a strange revolution in The Capital of Capital. Preparation of the project includes research related to fields including spectral harmony, Max-MSP, PD (Pure-data), virtual instruments, and sound installations.

www.sukorski.com

Félix Lazo (Santiago - Chile)

Six Studies for an Empty Work

At the AVLAB Meeting, the artist will present Seis estudios para una obra vacía (Six studies for an empty work), a work-in-progress. He will use it to explain the way his work which is also a programming system, functions.

The Six Studies for an empty work aims to provide a possibility for in-depth consideration and reflection in relation to visual and auditory interaction and the study of various possibilities for responding to the environment. Given that the work interacts continuously with its surrounding environment, the challenge is to create programming that is complex enough to respond differently and unpredictably, that evolves and is structured over time, creating some kind of coherence. The artist aims to carry out six studies of structure for an empty visual and acoustic work. This work, or programming system, has no pre-recorded sounds or films. The work is comprised entirely of material provided by the specific visual and acoustic environment around it.

Félix Lazo is a Chilean visual artist and musician. His work encompasses various techniques, styles and disciplines such as paintings, prints, installations, multimedia art, and music. He exhibits and presents his work regularly in Santiago de Chile. He has also presented his work in Paris, Lima, Berlin, São Paulo and Montreal.

www.lazo.cl

1605munro - Andrés Jankowski (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Electronic Avant Laptop: From Individual Musical Use to Collective Orchestral Instrumentation

In his presentation at the AVLAB Meeting, the Argentinean Andrés G. Jankowski aka 1605munro will focus on his professional experience in recent years as a laptop musician and member of a computer orchestra.

He will explain the difficulties involved in turning these events into musical experiences rather than information technology shows, and will give a brief performance with his laptop and several controllers (keyboard and ribbon controller). He will invite musical creators who work with Laptop to take part in a laptop-jam session at the end of the AVLAB Meeting.

In the 1980s, with Hernán Nuñez, he was a founder of the legendary experimental music group Santos Luminosos, which launched two essential works titled Leuchtende Reilige and Metalambiente. They were released by the Posible Records label of Buenos Aires.

In 1990 Andrés G. Jankowski initiated 1605munro, his solo electronic-avant-laptop project, which has had occasional guest participants including: Alan Courtis (Anla/Reynols), E. Galimany, Alex Anthony (The Twang Marvels), Guillermo Ueno (video) and Hernán Nuñez (The League of Crafty Guitarists).

Since 2005, he has been a member of the Polish electro-acoustic music society (PseME), with whom he took part in the 2007 Synthese Festival in Bourges, France, in addition to belonging to Laptoporchester Berlin, an ensemble he performs with around the world.

Artist Andrés G. Jankowski was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has lived in Berlin for twenty years. His artistic activities encompass the fields of performance, audio-design, multimedia creation and the Internet.

www.1605munro.com