Free Culture, Collaborative Creation, and Social Technology in the Brazilian Context
Place: Medialab-Prado. Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 · Madrid
In this lecture of the Thursdays at the Medialab-Prado, opening of the special programm AV_BR: Audio-visual Experimentation and Free Culture in Brazil, Felipe Fonseca will talk about processes of collaborative creation and social technologies in Brazil. It will be followed by a live presentation of the project Fetalcohol, a syncopated noisist re-reading of Bossa Nova and other popular Brazilian music.
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Free Culture, Collaborative Creation, and Social Technology in the Brazilian Context
Lecture by Felipe Fonseca.
Several years ago in Brazil, it became possible to develop significant research tasks as well as a series of practices related to social, technical and methodological matters when certain necessary conditions were met, partially accidentally, in connection with access to multimedia production, free knowledge and social technologies.
Based on international experiences including media tactics and interaction among civil society, various government requests, and a very active group of autonomous networks, a media education situation was constructed collectively.
This response was aimed not only at the Brazilian context but also for global application and repercussion. This replicable methodology follows the Brazilian tradition of fearlessly mixing different cultural influences, as la Tropicália and the modernist movement Antropofágico did in the 20th century.
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Live presentation of the Fetalcohol project, by Carlos Morevi
A re-reading of Bossa Nova and other popular Brazilian music, where samples and loops are edited surgically and asymmetrically, elimination certain harmonic elements, replacing them with motors/oscillators and frequency generators. This way, the ambient noise associated with Bossa Nova instrumental music, albeit in a ghostly, hypnotic, rough way quite different to the idealized harmony that characterizes the MPB school.
The project was started in 1996 by Carlos Morevi, also a member of the duo Gengivas Negras and co-founder of the netlabel Container Inc, which distributes albums by Brazilian bands in the noise/post-industrial genre.