punto y raya festival · back to basics

: Raúl Santos [a.k.a Supercinexcene]

This gifted producer and composer began his career as a DJ at the mythical Maravillas in Madrid. After playing drums for Los Planetas in 95-96 and keyboards for Mercromina, he launches his solo projects as Supercinexcene, publishing several singles for the record company Yo Gano, Tu Pierdes featuring artists like Najwa and Mastreta, among many others.

Artistic producer of bands such as 995, Sapiens, Doble H, Malinche, Rekord Your Fucking Name and Najwa [he’s produced her last three albums] Raúl Santos has also collaborated in 2006-7 with The Cabriolets [Diego Postigo, Bimba Bosé and David Unison].

At present he’s working on his second solo album featuring amazing collaborations and has recently been awarded the Premio de la Música to the best electronic music song with Najwa Nimri.
www.myspace.com/rsantos

: Mia Makela [a.k.a Solu]

This renown media + live cinema artist, teacher, investigator and cultural activist from Finland, began her career in 2001 performing visuals as part of the audiovisual improvisational band DADATA. After its dissolution she continued as SOLU, collaborating with many experimental musicians such as Heidi Mortenson and Dj Rupture. Since then she has performed in several festivals around the globe, including Zagreb Biennale of Music, Cimatics-festival [Brussels], the Museum of Contemporary Art [Helsinki, 2003], SONIC ACTS [Amsterdam], SONAR festival [Barcelona], AVIT [Birmingham], MAPPING [Geneve], TRANSIT_MX [Mexico City] and Live Cinema Nights [San José].

In 2004 she launched dorkbot.org in Barcelona presenting “People who do strange things with electricity”. Her latest occupation is PUBLIC.BCN, which concentrates all her audiovisual activities under the same label [workshops, events, AVcommunity, site-specific projects, ideas....]

The style of her experimental music videos, widely exhibited in festivals around the world, ranges from minimal abstractions and strongly processed material to multi-layered ambient landscapes. She processes her visual material using MAX/MSP/JITTER and other programmes like Isadora.
www.solu.org