Diego Florez Alvarez
16 March 2022 – 16 July 2022
Diego Flórez is a composer and filmmaker born in Mieres. He moved to Madrid for 5 years to train in the visual and sound fields, and his inclinations for nature and rural areas became increasingly accentuated during this period in the city. As a hybrid subject (in this territorial sense), he often seeks to explore in his work the tensions between the urban and the rural, as well as between the local and the global, the natural and the artificial… Interested in ecological and sound creation In field recordings, the latter inhabit almost all of his works, although they often share the spotlight with other materials, frequently obtained through digital synthesis. In this sense, the possibilities of computing, algorithms and controlled randomness are very interesting when it comes to emulating or evoking the “ordered chaos” typical of natural sound events. By presenting the listener with a synthesis of the natural or, through the opposite process (drastically processing the recordings), a synthetic nature, he tries to awaken reflections on our relationship with the environment and with our sound environment.
Project in residence
Patrones de l’orbayu
Patrones de l’orbayu a sound project that raises reflections on our relationship with nature and our sound environment. In it the composition of an electroacoustic album will be developed from two types of sound materials:
A) Field recordings
B) Algorithmic synthesis and composition (generated in the Supercollider programming environment)
At a conceptual level, there will be several pairs of ideas in tension.
1) on the one hand, the confrontation of the ideas of nature and technology, which, although they are often seen as opposite or antagonistic, in this case we will try to observe, in addition to their collisions, the possible connections between the two.
2) In addition, the confrontations of the ideas of natural / artificial or noise / signal will also have great weight in the development of the album.
The work will seek to establish links between the most contemporary technologies, techniques and languages (such as computing and algorithmic composition) and ancestral themes and knowledge (such as nature).
To do this, as Iannis Xenakis did in some of his works, we will seek to exploit the possibilities that algorithmics can offer us when referring to the “ordered chaos” typical of natural sound events.
Project selected in the I Call for Artistic Residencies 2022
