Medialab Prado

Open presentations aimed at sharing knowledge, criticism and opinions about the creative process in the areas of experimental and electronic music, electroacoustical music, sound art and real time audio and video processing in general.

Programme

Leidilei has been a DJ on the underground scene in Madrid since 1998. Eclectic in nature, her sessions draw from Drum&Bass, Hip-Hop, IDM and Rock&roll.
A producer since 2002, she has used samplers, synthesisers and rhythm boxes to compose an original mosaic of electronic reminiscent sounds. Her work is daring in its approach but developed with a freshness that would seem indicate the beginning of productive careers.

Lost in Heaven. A project conceived by the conceptual artist and writer Javier Montero, who is also the director of the programme Black Sheep on the Circulo Bellas Artes radio. Lost In Heaven, according to its creator, "is a secret organisation that plays with communication codes and language. It seeks to enter the everyday world of the spectators, their minds, their fantasies and their dreams". In his AVLAB appearance, he will combine electronic sounds, texts, poetry and the performances of actors.

Strand. A project of Miguel Gil Tertre, visual artist and musician. His releases are always accompanied by graphic material created by him for labels such as Foehn, Plataforma-ltw, City Centre Offices and Tôi thich nhac. In his own words, his work “tries to explore the ability of software to move, to achieve feelings through machines with unprecedented sounds”. In his AVLAB presentation, Strand will explain how to use different programming environments to process the sound of analogue instruments and will show in the projection how to manipulate these programmes.

Sounds of science.

Bartolo Luque has been collaborating since 2005, along with Fernando Ballesteros, an astronomer with the University of Valencia Observatory, on the programme, No es un día cualquiera broadcast on Radio Nacional de España – Radio 1 and hosted by Pepa Fernández, with a 10-minute mini-section entitled the Sounds of Science in which they play with sounds and the science behind them.

“There are everyday sounds such as taking a bite out of an apple, for example. In those cases, what is surprising is the science associated with them: “Why do some foods like applies or carrots crunch in such a characteristic way? The noise we hear is the result of thousand of cell walls exploding. The water inside them emerges at an incredible speed of 120 km/h...” Other sounds are not so common, such as the sound of a pulsar or the Cassini-Hyugens spacecraft crossing Saturn’s rings, for example. Some sounds are historical, such as the voice of Einstein or the Eagle moon landing. Others are reconstructions such as the sounds of dinosaurs or the sound of the Wright brothers’ Flyer engine.

Thanks to the Internet, it is now possible to have easy access to a large number of sounds that were difficult to capture just a few years ago. In this discussion we will give some examples and explain how we look for the sounds and design the radio script”.

Bartolo Luque