Lea B + Ben Vida

Morphology of war sounds for exploring the parameter of mobile space in acousmatic writing. 

Sounds: VCV rack open source modular software synth, various VST's & licensed samples.

Field recordings (Freesound.org): 
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Artwork: Eva K. - Eigenes Werk, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11729498

Kunstkrieg

Five women artists living in Brussels; each one from a different cultural background. They tell, in their mother tongue, an intense sensorial experience, that left a physical imprint. One of them is not telling the truth though. How to transmit this experience only through language when their words are translated, albeit ‘properly’ by another woman?.Qualia questions the body/mind problem, the impossibility of sharing with others the exact perception of a colour...
Technical information :
Voice and texts : Kitty Crowther, Zahava Seewald, Meryam Bayram, Sonia Pastecchia, Charo Calvo.
Translation and french voice: Laurence Vielle
Translation and english voice: Caroline Daish
Recordings: Charo Calvo, Bastien Hidalgo
Mastering: Bastien Hidalgo
Studio : Acsr and author’s studio. 
Produced by ABC Soundproof Australia, with support of ACSR Belgium and FACR de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.

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Sélection Field recording

Diego Véliz
Sound Desert – Agrovoices & FCALP
58’, autoproduction (Chili)

Cette suite en cinq tableaux, aussi divers que les territoires qu’ils évoquent, est une immersion dans les sons de Arica, une ville chilienne si-tuée aux confins du Pérou et de la Bolivie, au cœur du désert d’Atacama. Successivement, une promenade le long de la zone côtière, les ambiances et voix d’une gare routière internationale, un marché agricole, une zone humide en péril, et les friches d’une gare ferroviaire inoccupée. 

Diego Véliz s’est formé au cinéma documentaire au Chili, à Cuba et en Espagne. Il est l’auteur des courts métrages projetés dans plus de 40 festivals. Il vit et travaille dans la région tri-frontalière du Chili, du Pérou et de la Bolivie, où il développe des projets artistiques avec sa société de production Candelabro Films. "Sound Desert" est son premier projet d’art sonore.

Diego Véliz_Sound desert_FCALP

A portrait of the magnificent and mischievous musical spirit of Gyorgy Ligeti.

First broadcast 25th May 2014 BBC Radio 3
Produced by Alan Hall

Clocks And Clouds: An Adventure Around Gyorgy Ligeti

Furacão Irma
09/09/2017
Vedado- La Habana (CU)
Registro feito à tarde no interior de uma varanda envidraçada. Aproximadamente 10 horas antes de sua maior aproximação de Havana.

Irma

C'était un jour d'hiver, à Madrid. J'ai pris l’express 'Puerta del Sol' vers Bruxelles. A cette époque, Hendaya était le terminus de nos trains. Les rails espagnols et français n'avaient pas le même écartement. Chez nous, les voies étaient plus étroites, petite mesure de défense prise par le gouvernement de Franco. On descendait du train, la valise dans une main et dans l'autre le passeport bien serré. Au milieu de la nuit, on traversait cet espace à ciel ouvert, clôturé par des fils de métal ; couloir étroit et silencieux, inquiétant, ‘tierra de nadie’. De l'autre côté, vingt-six ans d'une autre vie m'attendaient et, je crois que je le devine déjà. Ce jour-là, je n'avais que vingt-six ans. Avant ce jour-là, il y a eu d’ autres jours, des milliers des jours que j'entends encore...

"La vie n'est pas ce que l'on a vécu, mais ce dont on se souvient et comment on s'en souvient" - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Une réalisation de Charo Calvo.
Mastering: Michel Huon
Remerciements : Yves Robic, Christine Stanczyk, Norbert Pflanzer, acsr, Musiques et Recherches, Eduardo Torroja, Sonia Pastecchia.
Une production acsr (Empreinte)  avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - 2013.
Palma Ars Acustica - Euroradio  EBU-UER 2014

Phonobiographie #1

Commissioned by the American Composers' Forum and written for Tigue Percussion, 2019. Premiered 1/24/19 at The Kitchen, NYC.

Mass of Dissolution is a new work commissioned by the American Composers' Forum and written specially for the percussion trio Tigue. The piece is conceived of as an incantation against the blind violence of military-industrial power that dominates global dynamics. Combining extended techniques for percussion with dislocated fragments of traditional American drum corps music, this work takes an intense and abstract approach to contemporary percussion music. With an array of percussion instruments, from tympani to triangle, to random metal objects, these instruments are used to evoke the sound of helicopters, engines, and alarms – all industrial tools used in modern warfare. Direct musical references to military percussion repertoire taken from Wilcoxen's All American Drummer become a machine so tightly wound that eventually the apparatus seizes and violently disassembles itself.

Mass Of Dissolution

Amirtha Kidambi and Lea Bertucci duo
From the forthcoming END OF SOFTNESS EP on Astral Spirits - Pre-orders available June 5th, 2020.
https://kidambibertucci.bandcamp.com/album/end-of-softness

Destroying Angel

44’27, Image and sound, Roumanie
with the help of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund

One of the first sociological and ethnographical documentary films in the world, made by Professor Dimitrie Gusti (1880-1955), founder of the Sociological School of Bucharest) and his team of trained sociologists and students. The documentary tracks the activities and customs from the mountain village Drăguş, later established as a privileged setting for Romanian sociologists and anthropologists. In composing, I looked for synesthesia, working with and without the image medium.

Simina Oprescu in 2015 graduated from the Department of Photo-Video at UNArte in Bucharest and in the period 2017-2018 she did one year in the acousmatic composition department of the Royal Conservatory in Mons, Belgium.

32_Simina Oprescu- Drăguș – Life in a Romanian Village

Charo Calvo is a Spanish electroacoustic composer, sound designer and teacher, living in Brussels. After having performed as a dancer with the influential Belgian dance company Ultima Vez, she started her studies on Electroacoustic Composition in 1992 with Annette Vande Gorne at Brussels Conservatory (now ARTS2 Mons). Graduated in 1999.
From 1992 her work as composer is being developed through different media, widely diffused on international venues and festivals, dance performances, theatre, film and radio. She has received several important awards such as Palma Ars Acustica 2014 EBU, Phonurgia Nova Awards Paris 2017, Prix Marulic 2018 Croatia, Grand Prix Nova Bucharest 2019 and was shortlisted for Prix Europa Berlin, Hearsay Prize Ireland.
Charo Calvo has been a guest of the prestigious residential program for international artists in Berlin DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm during the year 2017/2018. More at charocalvo.org

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