BEAUTIFUL FAILURES
Beautiful Failures exhibition at the  Mies Van Der Rohe Pavillion, 
Barcelona 2021

On 20 February 2020, sound recordings were made at Ferran Collado’s borosilicate glass studio at Carrer Galileu 163, Barcelona, with a glassblowing torch. Later, glass failures collected from the same place were recorded being subjected to events such as pressure, vibrations, falls, impacts, scratches and cracks.
Together, these sounds formed the basis for what would become a musical narrative on the life cycle of glass in two interrelated parts dealing with the life and death of the material.

Design: MEATS Elisava, Stella Rahola Matutes, Roger Paez
Producer: MEATS Elisava-Fundació Mies van der Rohe

Design credits MEATS Elisava
Faculty: Stella Rahola Matutes + Roger Paez
Students: Dalia Al-Akki, Agustina Angelini, Jana Antoun, Juan Arizti, Momen Bakry, Dastan Bissenov, Marta Borreguero, Elena Caubet, Ines Fernandez, Malak Ghemraoui, John Gillen, Tanvi Gupta, Stephanie Ibrahim, Tracy Jabbour, Yunling Jin, Liana Kalaitzoglou, Jad Karam, Gal·la Knoph, Selen Kurt, Julia Llorens, Alexa Nader, Joelle Nader, Assil Naji, Mokshuda Narula, Elsa Romero, Chloë Rood, Tiago Rosado, Eirini Sampani, Montserrat Sevilla, Brentsen Solomon, Giulia Tufariello, Irini Vazanellis, Kuan Yi Wu, Alexandra Zaitceva.

Soundscape: Inés Fernández Elhordoy

MEATS Directors: Toni Montes + Roger Paez

Soundscape Beautiful Failures

Soundscape made for "ANIMA", a lighting art installation experience designed and produced by the Master of Ephemeral Architecture and Temporary Spaces team (MEATS) from Elisava. 
The core idea of ANIMA’s soundtrack is to show our reality by providing data from technology, feeding the cloud and therefore both the collective digital soul (‘anima’ is Catalan for soul).
Let the present exist alongside a virtual reality, like a digital paradise.  There are two parallel spaces, above and below, the data cloud and our reality feeding it. The soundscape warns us of the rise of data, clicks, keyboard taps, and information that travels through the optical fibre.
To generate the soundscape, we recorded mouse and laptop keyboard clicks. With them, we created a battery of sounds on software to produce a rhythmic base.
For the harmonies, we use pads with digital sounds that generate an allusion to uploading the data to the cloud.
Two faces are shown in the soundscape... the random sounds of the clicks that later transform into a rhythm and the textured digital-sound universe into which the clicks evolve.
This upload of information in the cloud is as infinite as the amount of data uploaded by people in the world. Therefore, this sound is repeated as a loop. At the end, we will generate an immersive harmony combining all the notes used. Photography by Tiago Rosado

ANIMA Soundscape

Commissioned for the Ephemeral Space Designer Eirini Sampani in the Photography exhibition of Adeline Rapon "bruxes I Santes". The first part of a series of self-portraits was made around two Barcelonan female figures: Santa Eulalia and Enriqueta Martì, the "Vampira del Raval".  
The idea has to be with the transfiguration of Enriqueta Marti, a 
controversial character from the middle 1800s, Santa Eulalia and the visitors. The translucent picture where people can see the holly Mother statue behind it makes us think about the blurry definition and boundaries of the characters themselves. How the true and the false stories around this character can be defined by social opinion?
As the 3 points of attention in this exhibition, the visitor, Enriqueta´s picture and the holly mother sculpture, the concept of the soundscape was inspired in the same way. Focusing on the social thoughts, the main character and the place it would be exhibited, the museum room where previously there had been a small chapel. 
The number 3 as a divine number, has its connection with religion, and the sound has been divided into 3 packages: social judgements, ideas about the character as a witch and as a mother, and at the end forgiveness with contemporary thoughts and research. 
The entire soundscape is a transfiguration of all that. 

Voices participation
Elena Caubet 
Stella Rahola 
Roger Paez

Ines Elhordoy

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