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ARCO 2013 / Escucha Pública (Public Listening) #3. How can we portray a person with sound? with Nacho Arias
Radio Sures

Saturday 16 February at 7 pm

Radio Sures is an a la carte web radio for radio documentaries. With no extra photos or supporting videos or multimedia bonus features. We stand for telling stories exclusively with sound resources! We illustrate this aesthetic stance each month in a public gathering devoted to listening. We offer a selection of sound narrative documentaries, in Spanish and other languages, with translations planned. We listen in the half-light, seated or lying down, as if we were a cinema audience for a movie with no pictures. Orson Welles might have said it: “Radio is better than the movies because in radio, the screen’s bigger”.

In each session a guest joins us to share his or her point of view (and hearing) about the documentaries we have heard. Not sound or radio experts, our guests come from other fields of creative endeavours such as cinema, painting, photography, literature, theatre, and so on. Instead of an analysis, they share their sensations and impressions as auditors. Their contributions create bridges between sound and other artistic disciplines.

For the third session, our guest is photographer Nacho Arias.
We will reflect on “How to portray a person with sound”. We are not talking about ID photos but rather portraits taken from an auteur point of view. The person behind the camera or microphone leaves all pretensions of objectivity aside in order to transmit his or her own perception of the person portrayed. In this creative process, the person becomes a “character”.

Nacho Arias has a degree from the Fine Arts School at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has worked as a photographer for over 15 years. He has shown his work at museums, galleries and art centres including the Círculo de Bellas Artes, La Casa de América and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid. His work has also been selected at festivals such as PhotoSpain, Emergentes (Braga, Portugal), and the 2010 International Vienna Festival. At present he is working on several series that will be completed in 2013.

Sound-In: Meetings, presentations, workshops and concerts.
Anne-Françoise Raskin and Miguel Álvarez-Fernández

23 to 26 January from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Sound-In at Intermediae offers a series of complementary activities to the Estampa Multiple Art Fair (Feria de Arte Múltiple Estampa), held last October at Matadero Madrid. This series of lectures, roundtables, workshops and concerts shares the core them of the Sound-In section: promoting and disseminating sound art and experimental music.

This series of activities aims to form a framework for shared learning in which the artists, curators, producers, critics, etc. gathered for Sound-In can share their experiences with their experimental sound creation projects. In addition to sharing theoretical approaches through roundtables and presentations, Sound-In offers a practical dimension through a series of concerts and workshops open to everyone.

For further information regarding the workshops, please write to sound-in@estampa.org

 www.estampa.org

Activities:

Wednesday 23 January
10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Workshop: Sound art and Decolonial studios

Thursday 24 January
10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Workshop: Creating and editing graphic music: from the music score to the visual work.
5 to 6:30 p.m. Roundtable: The Sound-In project and the Estampa Multiple Art Fair.
7 to 8:30 p.m. Presentation of projects by artists in the Sound-In Programme for New Creators.
9 to 10 p.m. Concerts.

Friday 25 January
10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Workshop: Creating and reinventing sound instruments: object/sculpture/installation.
5 to 6:30 p.m. Roundtable: Producing sound art and experimental music.
7 to 8:30 p.m. Presentation of projects by artists in the Sound-In Programme for New Creators.
9 to 10 p.m. Concerts.

Saturday 26 January
5 to 6:30 p.m. Communication and dissemination of sound art and experimental music.
7 to 8:30 p.m. Presentation of projects by artists in the Sound-In Programme for New Creators.
9 to 10 p.m. Concerts.

Open Terrario / Public Listening #2. How to create sound spaces? With Enrique Rivero.
Radio Sures

Friday 18 January at 8 p.m.

Radio Sures is an on-demand web radio with radio documentaries. With no additional photos, supporting videos, or multimedia extras. We tell stories using only sound resources!  We illustrate this aesthetic proposal each month at a public meeting devoted to listening. We offer a selection of documentary sound narratives, in Spanish and other languages, with translations planned. We listen in the semi-darkness, seated or lying down, as if we were in a cinema watching a movie with no pictures. As Orson Welles said, “Radio is better than the cinema because in radio, the screen is bigger.”

At each session, we will have a guest with a point of view (or better said… hearing) on the documentaries we have heard. The guest is not a specialist in sound or radio but rather, another creative field such as painting, photography, literature, theatre, etc. Instead of offering an analysis, the guest will share sensations and impressions as a listener. This intervention will create bridges between sound and other artistic disciplines.

In this second session, our guest is filmmaker and producer Enrique Rivero.

At each meeting, we will discuss the sound documentary from a different perspective, starting with a question. This month it is: “How to create sound spaces?” A film director frames the shot with a camera. Do radio documentary makers also create a shot with microphones? Other questions we will explore include: What is a “sound space”? How is it constructed by the person recording and perceived by the listener? We will discuss distance, movement, and field depth.

Enrique Rivero has worked in various areas related to film production, from photography to art. As a director, he started with two short films, Nidra and Schhht!, making his first feature length film, Parque Vía, in 2008. It garnered various international awards including the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Festival (Switzerland). His second feature length film was Mai Morire (2012); it won awards in Rome (Best Photography) and Huelva (Special Jury Award, and the Radio Exterior de España award, among others.) Currently he is in development with his next project, Pozoamargo, to be shot in Spain in a town in La Mancha.

Radio Sures / Escucha Pública #1. How to tell stories with sounds, with Antonio Altarriba.

Escucha Pública #1. How to tell stories with sounds, with Antonio Altarriba. Friday 16 November at 8 p.m.

Radio Sures is a new web radio for radio documentaries. Without extra photos, or supporting videos, or multimedia bonus features, or anything like that. They tell stories using only sound resources. Of course that is possible.
They will prove it every month in the public listening sessions in which they will offer narrative sound documents, in Spanish and other languages, with subtitles.
Listening in the darkness, seated or lying down, as if we were in a cinema with a film without images. As Orson Welles said: “Compared to the cinema, radio has the advantage of having a larger screen.” He didn’t say that, but he could have.

The first session will have as a participant writer, professor of French literature and comic scriptwriter Antonio Altarriba, author of the marvellous Arte de volar (Art of Flying) (2010 National Comic Award).

OPEN TERRARIO / Radio Sures

Escucha Pública #1. How to tell stories with sounds, with Antonio Altarriba. Friday 16 November at 8 p.m.

Radio Sures is a new web radio for radio documentaries. Without extra photos, or supporting videos, or multimedia bonus features, or anything like that. They tell stories using only sound resources. Of course that is possible.
They will prove it every month in the public listening sessions in which they will offer narrative sound documents, in Spanish and other languages, with subtitles.
Listening in the darkness, seated or lying down, as if we were in a cinema with a film without images. As Orson Welles said: “Compared to the cinema, radio has the advantage of having a larger screen.” He didn’t say that, but he could have.

The first session will have as a participant writer, professor of French literature and comic scriptwriter Antonio Altarriba, author of the marvellous Arte de volar (Art of Flying) (2010 National Comic Award).

OPEN TERRARIO/ Stages via Streaming and De La Puríssima
PlayDramaturgia

Saturday 27 October at 7 p.m. 

Experimental performance by the Madrid band De La Puríssima, exploiting the use of streaming, followed by an aftertalk and a meeting with the artists.
Stages via Streaming is a stage experimentation and theoretical reflection platform by the group PlayDramaturgia. This group of young playwrights collaborates with creators, critics and experts from a wide variety of disciplines to uncover the possibilities offered by streaming to the performing arts, in a series of creations and meetings that can be followed at Intermediae or from home.

SHORT FILMS FOR YOU
Duncan Speakman
From 10 July to 30 September, 2012.

Audio book on loan at the information desk at Matadero Madrid and at prestamo@intermediae.es
Language of the piece: English. Loans for a maximum of 2 days.

Short Films For You is a collection of micro-experiences. Each one is a mixture of sound, location and object. Some of them you undertake alone, some on foot, some in a bus, others are for the comfort of your own home, or in the company of a friend.

Duncan Speakman has been creating audio works with his collective Circumstance, often using instructions to make the audience into performers, these works have tended to be long experiences, leaning towards notions of the epic. This project was a chance to create smaller, more detailed individual experiences, a kind of sketchbook. It also seeks to explore the relationship between the book as both an object and a leaping off point.

Each of the works in the collection was created at Timelab in collaboration with artists from different disciplines, and the core of each piece was created through an intensive one week process. Tom Abba (UK) brought in a sense of early 20th century gothic literature, Els Viaene (BE) drew on her location sound recording practice. Reinout Hiel (BE) uses photography to create a fixed visual counterpoint on a moving bus journey, Yoko Ishiguro (JP) turns the book into a performance space for an intimate dance.

This project was always going to be a risk, an experiment, and in the end it was always going to be for you. Short Films For You

Duncan Speakman is an artist whose work explores how we use sound to navigate social and physical environments. His recent work has focused on headphone based experiences that draw on cinematic styles and create participatory performances in public spaces. http://productofcircumstance.com   twitter: @ofcircumstance

If you have impressions to share, please leave your comments below or contact Duncan Speakman at a@productofcircumstance.com

From 15 th of June

Is it possible to occupy the inhabitable space that exists in all spaces with sound and visual archives or, in other words, the no-places there are in all places?

Augmented reality makes it possible to geo-locate contents on certain coordinates. By going online through mobile devices like smart phones, those archives can be found and played, provided that one is within their action radius. Poetic occupation turns readers into active visitors to places where poetic interventions have occurred.

This first non-invasive intervention brings together literary creation, music and dramatized readings along Legazpi neigbourghood, fostering the idea of an anti-guide. As people walk by, they can discover a series of audio poems, in an attempt to offer local residents and passersby a new way of walking through this fragment of the city.

How does it work?

To access the contents of “Occupacción poética” (Poetic OccupAction), you need to download the LAYAR* app, by clicking on this link:http://www.layar.com/download/

And you can add content

Intermediæ invites poets, musicians, educators and all interested people to send their proposals to continue this poetic occupation of Legazpi and other neighbourhoods in the south of the city. Contributions will be added to this initial intervention proposed by Carlos Contreras Elvira and Juan Carlos Ibáñez Angulo.

For more information visit intermediae.es/project/ocupacionpoeticalegazpi or write to ocupacionpoetica@intermediae.es

Ocupacciónpoetica (Poetic OccupAction) is an initiative conceived of in 2010 by cultural agitator Juan Carlos Ibáñez Angulo and coordinated by writer Carlos Contreras Elvira. At present it has over two thousand interventions in twenty one countries all over the world.
http://ocupaccionpoetica.blogspot.com.es



* Layar is an application developed with open source software and a Copyleft license 


* INTERACTIVE SOCIOGRAM / Installation
Daniel Rojas and Carles Gutierrez.

Installation. 11 May to 29 July / Presentation of the project. Friday 11 May at 7 pm.
Workshops on Sound and Movement by Debajo del sombrero. Every Wednesday from 11 am to 2 pm.

Sociograma interactivo (Interactive Sociogram) is an installation that reacts to the presence of the people who pass through the Intermediae building.

The project is an exploratory approach to the relationships formed among people, especially when they share the same space. The links created among them are represented graphically.

A play space that allows exploration and experimentation, and stimulates the creation of ritual dynamics among participants.
The installation is part of the experimentation space of the weekly workshops on Sound and Movement held by the Debajo del sombrero group at Intermediae. Sound and Movement arose out of the programme Al Matadero sin Miedo, as an area for constant exploration around shapes and sound elements that contribute to awakening new gestures in participants and collaborators.

Sociograma interactivo generates an exchange that opens up new possibilities for experience, observation and relations among participants, in this play space that contains each attendee’s movements.

6552100 / LIVE INTERACTIONS WITH SOUND INSTALLATION BY CHINOWSKI + MALAVENTURA WHISPERS&NOISES
Sunday 18 March, 7 pm

New live interaction with the 6552100 sound installation. With a multichannel concert format, the installation will become a space to escape for awhile through soundscapes. Atmospheres, drones and field recordings will coincide in a series of concerts where the audience will be immersed in sound from a new dimension.

Malaventura, the pseudonym of Fernando García Tamajón, works with a combination of experimental electronics, video art, programming of tactile control environments and random experiments in publishing online videos. His most recent sound project, Fluidus Sessions, comprises experimental sessions with guest musicians and noisists recorded live in unusual places such as museums, bookshops and airports. He has distributed his sounds and video work since 2000 under free licences at www.malaventura.net

Chinowski Garachana is a sound activist, audio kinetic artist, and co-founding member of Tesla Dream el sueño de Tesla, a group from Malaga that is part of La Casa Invisible, whose work centres on archives, production and pedagogy related to sound and visual culture. He coordinates MedialabInvisible, a space for research and experimentation under open source codes, is a member of the electro-acoustic ensemble Sonora Masala, and co-directs Dobladosound, where he works as location sound mixer and sound designer. He has participated in meetings and festivals including Zemos98, Festival de Cultura Libre (Free Culture Festival), La Tabacalera Sound Experiment Meetings, and Muestraexperimentación Sonora at (CAC) Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Málaga. tesladream.org

www.m2sonido.net