Experimental Electronic Music
and Visual Arts Festival
14-16.04.2011
La Farinera del Clot & Convent de Sant Agustí
Barcelona
The sixth festival of experimental electronic music and visual arts organized by the platform Störung will start next Thursday 14th of April offering us, during three days, the performances of outstanding national and international artists of the electronic and experimental scene.
This festival wants to offer the audience the chance of getting to know in detail different tendencies of the electronic music scene, continuing the work that the multidisciplinary platform Störung has been doing since 2006.
On the 12th of March the program of the event was officially presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) and was followed by the audiovisual performance of Francisco López: one of great artists related to this project.
| Date | Workshop | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 14th From 10am to 7pm La Farinera del Clot |
Circuit Bending by Juan Matos (ES) |
65€ |
| Date | Conferences | Diffusion | Screening | Performances | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 14th 8:30pm La Farinera del Clot |
Broken, Bent and Mutilated |
Störung DVD (parte 1) |
15€ | ||
| Friday 15th 6:00pm La Farinera del Clot |
5€ | ||||
| Friday 15th 8:30pm La Farinera del Clot |
Dark Atmospheric | Störung DVD (parte 2) |
15€ | ||
| Saturday 16th 7:30pm Convent S. Agustí |
5€ | ||||
| Full pass* 35€ |
| Date | Sound Installation | Price |
|---|---|---|
| From Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th from 12pm to 6pm Convent S. Agustí |
Free entrance |
Juan Matos Capote is an experimental audiovisual artist from the Canary Islands. Since 2008 he lives in Barcelona (Spain). He has studied Circuit Bending with pioneer Reed Ghazala in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, and Deep Listening techniques with composer and musician Pauline Oliveros, Ione and Heloise Gold in New York and Girona.
He has taught several Circuit Bending workshops in USA. In Catalonia he has given workshops at the Escola Superior de Disseny, in Hangar, in CCCB, in Miscelanea, in Estudio Circuit Torçat, etc., and he has lectured on this subject at various festivals and events such as Störung 5.0, Hydrophonia Barcelona , Eweek-Vic and at Gargall Festival.
In his concerts uses electronic circuits he has created and modified (toys, radios, oscillators, pedals), as well as field recordings. Many of his circuits are characterized by a random, yet controllable behavior. He has participated in various music festivals such as: Transmediale, Sónar 2010, Störung 5.0, Ciclo Hum, etc. He plays solo and is also one half of Monolith (circuit bending - electroacustic duo) with artist Alfredo Costa Monteiro, and Árum (circuit bending - amplified objects duo) with artist Lali Barrière.
*Online tickets can not be purchased the same day, but can be purchased at the ticket office. Full pass give the right to access all activities in the festival but not the circuit bending workshop.
With the purchase of the of the full pass or the workshop you will participate in a price draw of a licence of Longcat H3D, which will be drawed on the April 16th.
Available for limited time only: you can book the live audio recordings of the Störung Festival 6 performances here.