Artists Statement

June 15, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. ISEA2022 Extended Programme

Sound, as part of its intangible cultural heritage, is seriously threatened in many parts of the world. That is why the Sons en Causa project records the sound heritage of some Latin American cultural contexts where, due to economic growth, irreversible changes are expected in the short and medium term in the environmental surroundings.

Starting with Sons en Causa, on June 15 we propose a multifocal installation of eight speakers in the courtyard of the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park. In this case, one of the main features is that these sound recordings have been chosen by an artificial intelligence with multilayer perceptrons.

The project includes different activities:

16h – Dissemination session for schools and teaching centers.
17:30h – Open tour of the facility.
20h – Improvisation session open to the public between local musicians, distant musicians and eight improvising computer agents; all acting on the responses of an oracle deployed on a remote IBM quantum computer.
A project from Orquestra del Caos with Lina Bautista, Josep Manuel Berenguer, Gonzalo Biffarella, Anna Gatz, Carlos Gómez, Mathias Klenner, Luis López Casero and Ginebra Raventós.

http://caos.sonoscop.net/sonidos-de-causa

• The Orquestra del Caos  (Orchestra of Chaos, Barcelona, Spain) is an interdisciplinary group of artists engaged in creating and producing sound, musical, audiovisual and multimedia events. Particularly interested in the use of technology in art, its performances usually feature the use of technological tools such as sensors and telecommunications devices.

Supported by / Amb el suport de: Hangar.org, Mater En Art Sonor, Orquestra del Caos, Parc Recerca Biomédica Barcelona