[Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona · november 27th, 2009]

Figures / Frequencies is an AV electronic exercise based on great minimalistic works created between the decades of the 1950’s and 1970’s. The pyrformers composed an audiovisual structure for each piece.
Analog frequencies, digital errors, static, pulses and rhythms in synch with cool cgi imagery, geometric shapes and lines and dots shifting in space.
Texas Sci-Fi explores each of the classic works using different tools which, perhaps, the original author would have never thought of...

Track list:
1. Tiled Arc (Richard Serra)
2. Cloud (Robert Morris)
3. Three squares within a triangle (Robert Morris)
4. Hzrl1 (Sol Lewitt)
5. Aluminum-zinc dipole e/w (Carl Andre)
6. The diagonal of may 25 (Dan Flavin)
7. Die fahne hoch (Frank Stella)
8. Cube Nº2 (Larry Bell)
9. Steel-magnesium plain (Carl Andre)
10. Endless column (Constantin Brandcusi)
11. Distorted Squire/Circle (Robert Mangold)
12. Open Cube (Sol Lewitt)
13. Blue box (Stephen Antonakos)
14. Modular cube/base (Sol Lewitt)

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Texas Sci-fi

Texas Sci-fi was created in 2008 as the result of the reunion of former Power Pop’s members Juanjo Fernández_Gnomalab  and Miki Martínez_Anorak, together with his brother Rafa Martinez_Geistform.
Each of the members has his own personal projects with several albums published, but under “Texas Sci-Fi” they join forces to create an audiovisual set of minimalistic accuracy and power.
Their live visuals with analog “real” synthesizers (Moog, Korg Ms20) and various retro devices input a direct signal in realtime imagery creation. Dance minimalism with a pinch of experimental (and impossible) frequencies. Impeccable AV synch.

www.myspace.com/texasscifi  
www.miga-label.org

PyR'09 · November 27th · Barcelona

[C.Fundación Telefónica, Lima · April 3rd, 2009]

Born in Lima, Peru, she's been a Dj for over 6 years, positioning herself on the Peruvian electronic music scene thanks to her unique minimal house and techno style.

Her sets create a minimal milieu using dark, organic and acid sounds.

She's particularly interested in exploring new music styles and keep evolving continuously.

She's a member of Auxiliar, a collective of producers, designers, DJ’s and VJ’s who strive to boost the Peruvian audiovisual culture, always based on Peruvian roots.
www.myspace.com/orietachrem

[C.Fundación Telefónica, Lima · April 17th, 2009]

This talented South-Corean artist has been living in Lima for the last few years, performing at the most important events of the Limean dance scene, such as Aura, Gótica, Home, Mecano, C.C. La Noche de Barranco, La Mecca, Nuvo Lounge, etc.

Jumi has also performed with internationally renowned DJ’s like James Zabiela, Mauro Picotto, Slacker, Desyn Masiello, Sister Bliss (Faithless), Andy Fletcher (Depeche Mode), Sean Cusick, Andy Moor, Magda and Anja Schneider, to name a few. Her constantly evolving style switches from electro, to techno and disco, according to the occasion.

In 2007, she released her first EP entitled Bass Machine with the label Eletrodomesticos (BR), with the collaboration of DJ/Producers John Acquaviva and Kosmas Epsilon. The remix was also included in the CD Best Female DJ’s of the World, mixed by DJ Joyce Mercedes.

She's currently developing projects with different musicians, like the trio Pirate Robot Midget, who've just released a remix of Nine Inch Nails' song with the label Interscope USA.

Jumi's track B-Attack, remixed by the trio, has been played by many European and Asian DJ’s and can be found on various music blogs.

Since 2007, Jumi is also a member of the DJ's collective Elektrofreakz.
www.myspace.com/jumimusic www.radiojean.com/musica

[Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona · november 26th, 2009]

The Space in Between emerges in 2009 from the get-together of two disciplines in want of –and in need of-  establishing a dialog. Nikka and Alba wander about IDM sound-scapes and abstract visual compositions. They build inner sounds that bring life to colors. They visualize music and sonorize image. They walk through spatial narratives. They feel comfortable among analog machines and aesthetic bits. They want to look beyond their laptops.

Both of them feel committed to boost up audiovisual culture. They want to take electronic music outside the clubs and visuals, beyond the “loop realm”. Their live performance is based on sensory emotions about form and expression; on abstract generative art and on melancholic sounds with a strong character. The stage is of vital importance to them; due to their particular aesthetic sense, they feel comfortable performing in convents, churches, art galleries and auditoriums. One of their main objects is to take their audience through an audiovisual experiment created with machines that convey emotion.

Concerts:
· Femelek 2008 (Barcelona)
· Miscelanea March 2009 (Barcelona)
· Sonar June 2009 (Barcelona)
· Punto y Raya Festival 2009 (Barcelona)
· Art Futura 2009 (Barcelona)

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Nikka & Alba G. Corral

Nikka teaches Dj-ing and musical production. Alba G. Corral teaches visual programming. They met in 2006 at Niu (Contemporary Art Venue in Barcelona) and started collaborating in various projects around Condal City; but it was in 2009 when they created a common space where they feel comfortable working hand in hand. To them, Study is one of the ways; they believe that with the emergence of new development fields, it’s important for people to understand and have access to the study of current artistic expressions.

They took part in the design of Random Lela Art’s main titles, adocumentary on female Vj’s and Dj’s in Barcelona (to be released soon). They also created the piece Gold Thinkings, selected for the 2009 PyR Official Competition.

www.myspace.com/missnikka66
www.albagcorral.com

PyR'09 · November 26th · Barcelona

[Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona · november 28th, 2009]

The author shows the universe of sound waves through a setup based on a synthesizer and an oscilloscope in X-Y format. Starting from Lissajous shapes and with ever increasing complexity, the performance explores the synaesthesia in an abstract realm created by the sounds and their figures.

This Audiovisual Concert is divided into three parts:
1. Screening of a short film with the author’s theoretical explanation about the project, its mechanical aspects and other related concepts.
2. Improvisation suite, where the performer experiments with synthesis parameters, sound frequencies and textures in a linear way with fluid changes. Pure Intervals with sine waves, some melodic lines, some more abstract, always looking for interesting stimuli or figures.
3. Rhythmic and melodic music using several sound layers, loops, breaks and sequenced parts. The performer improvises on the sound and shape parameters.

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Albert Callejo Amat_Vj Dima

Since 1998, Albert Callejo Amat_Vj Dima has been performing as a VJ in Barcelonan clubs and festivals, as well as in other cities in Spain, Italy and France.
He’s a member of the Barcelona-based collective Telenoika, where he takes part in various AV Jam sessions and other events.
Under the alias Dima-AV he creates AudioVisual concerts based on his own electronic music compositions and synthetic 3D imagery.
He’s currently focussed on his project “Lissajous Curves and Synthesis (see the sound…)”, where the music is composed as a direct response to the imagery created by an oscilloscope; in this case, he uses very simple elements that bring him closer to what he considers “pure audiovisual”.

www.dima-vj.com/lissajous/liss_Eng.html
www.horitzo.TV (prog.‘Kill Ur TV’)

PyR'09 · November 28th · Barcelona

[C.Fundación Telefónica, Lima · April 17th, 2009]

Malaki is one of the most renowned VJ's in Peru.

He has shared the stage with internationally renowned DJ's like Hernán Cattaneo, Sasha and Danny Howells.

He was also the VJ at live shows like Tonka and Resplandor.

[C.Fundación Telefónica, Lima · April 17th, 2009]

He studied graphic design, media communication and participated in a workshop on media art. In 2000 Ruido started composing electronic music, releasing his single "Atake en la zona brava" and later, the demo "Etupa 73". In early 2004, he is selected by Red Bull to take part in the Red Bull Music Academy in Rome as Peru's representative.

In June 2006 he performs in the RBMA Lounge at the SÓNAR festival in Barcelona. He later joins NEOS (Nativos Explorando Otros Sistemas), a multimedia collective of Peruvian artists, which has launched their own experimental electronic music label.
http://www.myspace.com/ruipereira

[C.Fundación Telefónica, Lima · April 3rd, 2009]

She's one of the first female DJ's in Peru and South America.

Interested in music and graphic design, she has always merged her love for the electronic genre with several visual stimuli to achieve a rhythmic-audiovisual equilibrium through image manipulation.

A self-taught artist, she took part of main live events in Lima.

As a member of Auxiliar, she currently develops new video and installation platforms and performs at various events curated by this collective.
www.myspace.com/vjsixta www.colectivoauxiliar.com

[Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona · november 28th, 2009]

Feedback is a hard-to-control live process. It talks about errors, cycles, responses, inputs, outputs and the life emerging from the signals.
It’s a metaphor usually applied to intelligent processes in machines –what’s come to be known as Artificial Intelligence, if there could ever be such a thing. The question triggering the error and its feedback are processes very close to that of human trial-and-error learning. Machines learn and respond.

“Telenoika Feedback Experience” is a get-together of various creators in Telenoika’s audiovisual open community, which will experiment with the responses and errors generated by video-mixers of different generations.

In this abstract live AV session for Punto y Raya Festival, we want to talk about chaotic monitoring processes and the development of human interrelations based on free knowledge circulation and exchange.

Are You Experienced?

-- Xavier Gibert aka Off://TV<

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TELENOIKA

Telenoika was created in 2000 as a group of people interested in audiovisual creation, with the desire to share knowledge with their audience and continuously experiment with artistic languages thanks to the availability of new AV home-technologies.

After 8 years of activity, Telenoika has managed to gather a wide community of artists interested in getting-together, self-development and the possibility of conveying their interests to society. In addition, this community interacts with society directly through the collaboration with other associations, institutions, artists and collectives working with new technologies.

Telenoika currently supports emerging artists funding research and artistic productions, as well as providing audiovisual training through various affordable workshops, presentations and courses; video-interventions and building-mapping; and mainly, through a series of sporadic activities, which generate new creative dynamics and bring together the members of the association:

AV Lives: Telenoika gathers a great number of independent AV creators, who develop their activity through live audiovisual performances, such as La Màquina de Turing, Koulomek or Los Subwoofus.

Performance: Development of collaborative projects open to diverse formats such as Stage Arts and Theatre, seeking the hybridization between new ways of AV communication and the legacy of the evolution in cinematographic and theatrical expressions.

Interventions in public spaces: Telenoika’s socially-committed works are also shown in urban interventions and activities devised by associations with different interests and purposes: gender equality, homosexual rights, immigration policies, etc.

www.telenoika.net

PyR'09 · November 28th · Barcelona

[C.Fundación Telefónica, Lima · April 3rd, 2009]

Project created by José Alexander Data.

Alcaloide's music encompasses many strands in the electronic genre. Initially, his work was better known for his live performances, where he produced rougher, more acid sounds.

He currently blends the harshness of his earlier sounds -when he was known as Siamliam- with more ambient, chill music generated by computers, oscillators and sequencers.
http://www.myspace.com/alcaloid3