Latest additions, new spaces
LEV LATEST ADDITIONS. NEW SPACES
Following previous confirmations including Monolake, Biosphere, Robert Lippok, Robert Henke, Herman Kolgen, Pole, Hiroaki Umeda, Dasha Rush, Myriam Bleau, Paul Jebanasam & Tarik Barri, Yro & Sati, Ametsub, Sunny Graves, Datassette, Komatssu and JG Biberkopf, LEV adds 13 new projects to the lineup of this new edition.
LEV, an initiative co-produced by the Government of the Principality of Asturias, the Gijón City Council, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial and the Datatrón collective, will once again show some of the most daring and interesting proposals of international sound and visual creation.
AUDIOVISUAL LIVES
RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY PRESENTS ALEX SMOKE LOW A/V FEAT. FLORENCE TO
Alex Smokewill present at the LEV, with the help of the Red Bull Music Academy, the live audiovisual of his latest work LOW, Love Over Will, made in collaboration with the visual artist Florence To. It is a special adaptation of her acclaimed latest work that is at the forefront of techno sound, navigating between various layers of filtered vocals and sharp sounds that float between her characteristic emotional arrangements and electro rhythms.
Florence To’s visual work creates an immersive and sensorial digital atmosphere, seeking to generate a synesthetic experience, which can be enjoyed live in the Visual Electronics Laboratory.
KUEDO LIVE A/V FEAT WERKFLOW
Kuedo,one of the most exciting names in the chaotic crossroads of fusions between genres and styles that the electronic scene is experiencing, returns to the LEV to present his new project. A live A/V developed together with the London visual artists Werkflow, in a tour de force where James will deploy the entire barrage of new sounds that will be part of his next album, which will be released on his Knives label throughout 2016.
Since his appearance alongside Roly Porter with the Vex’d project, one of the most solid projects in the British underground, Kuedo has established himself as one of the most visionary artists in world electronics, emerging from the spectrum of bass culture and creating a solid mix of minimalism, techno and grime, all processed and recontextualized to shape the soundtrack of the future.
CAO YUXI PRESENTS MACROCOSM.
Cao Yuxiis a young Chinese artist, based in New York, linked to the new wave of audiovisual creators of the new media scene, interested in the visualization of sound, computing, interactivity, design, and all their confluences.
James Yuxi lands in Gijón to present his audiovisual performance Macrocosm. Synchronism, science fiction aesthetics, synesthesia and abstract image mixed in a journey from the infinitesimal to the cosmic, where galaxies explode and black holes expand and where sound and high-resolution images merge into a single being.
RACHEL MEYERS
Raquel Meyers,Spanish visual artist based in Sweden, closely linked to the 8bit scene, Pixel Art and arcade video game aesthetics, returns to LEV to establish a collaboration with the prolific Datassette.
His proposal, shot from two old Commodore 64 computers, will be the perfect accompaniment for Datassette’s live performance. One of the most solid, bizarre and playful proposals of the experimental audiovisual scene.
BOTANICAL GARDEN: LCC AND BASS BOSS
The Botanical Garden, one of the most charming locations of the Festival, which houses part of the daytime programming, will host, in addition to the previously announced live performances by Pole and Ametsub, the sound proposals of the Asturian LCC and the also Asturian Bass Boss.
LCC
The restless LCC return to the Festival with new material under their belt. Their proposal will reveal the new sounds they have worked on this last year, part of them produced in the artistic residency held at the EMS studios in Stockholm, where they have had the opportunity to work with the legendary Buchla 200 and Serge modular synthesizers.
BASS BOSS
Bass BossHe is a very young Asturian artist strongly linked to the local scene who creates exquisite music with a strong personality. His work draws as much from the international IDM quarry as from the bass scene or the more futuristic new wave electronics of artists like Kuedo.
TOURS THROUGH THE CITY, NEW LOCATIONS.
FRED PENELLE & YANNICK JACQUET (ANTIVJ). JOANIE LEMERCIER. SONIC ROBOTS. OSCAR MULERO.
With the desire to continue tracking the evolution of new audiovisual languages, LEV presents two of the most notable artists and collectives of today, the Antivj collective and the artist Joanie Lemercier, with projects that transcend classic formats.
The two proposals will be housed respectively in central museum spaces in the city, Room 1 of the Old Institute Culture Center and the Trinity Chapel of the Barjola Museum. The Collegiate Church of San Juan Bautista of the Revillagigedo Palace will be added to these two locations with the idea of generating a tour of specific interventions and actions through different spaces in the city.
JOANIE LEMERCIER: WALL DRAWING LEV 2016. TRINITY CHAPEL OF THE BARJOLA MUSEUM
This piece is part of the Wall Drawing series, audiovisual installations in which the visual is directly drawn on the wall and augmented with a layer of projected light that plays to alter our senses, generating impossible volumes and depth.
The visual is made up of straight lines and repetitive patterns that represent a structure of landscapes, rocks, planets and caves, based on simple patterns, with strong inspiration from the mural paintings of Sol Lewitt.
Joanie has stood out as one of the founding members of the acclaimed Antivj collective, pioneers in video art applied to digital environments and for her audiovisual projects in collaboration with sound artists such as Emptyset, James Ginzburg or Principles of Geometry.
Since 2013 Joanie has separated from the Antivj collective and continues with her solo projects, defining herself as one of the most sensitive artists in the experimental digital art scene.
FRED PENELLE & YANNICK JACQUET (ANTIVJ): DISCURSIVE MÉCANIQUES. ROOM 1 / OLD INSTITUTE CULTURE CENTER
As the passage of time accelerates every day and the pace of our lives becomes frenetic, Fred Penelle & Yannick Jaquet, from the Antivj collective, offer us a respite.
His proposal, a strange mechanism that emerges from the walls of Room 1 of the Old Institute Culture Center, populated by mysterious characters, shadows and strange mechanical objects, makes us doubt whether it is a laboratory experiment or the plan for an ecosystem future.
Discursive Mechanicsnothing between two eras: that of Gutenberg’s mechanical gadgets and that of Big data. The contrast between the mechanical techniques used in the reproduction of images and the use of the most recent digital technologies is striking, to give way to a script made up of a thousand stories through a deconstructed narrative.
Made with care down to the finest detail, the narrative traces false connections, routes and itineraries, inviting us to dream.
Yannick Jacquet is Legoman, one of the founding members of the Antivj collective, and the mind behind, among others, the live audiovisual project Lumisokea. Fred Penelle is a visual artist closely linked to the world of theatrical scenography to which he contributes his very particular imaginary worlds.
SONIC ROBOTS PRESENTS GLITCH ROBOT. COLLEGIATE OF SAN JUAN BAPTIST OF THE REVILLAGIGEDO PALACE. Sunday, May 1.
Sonic Robots(Moritz Simon Geist), work on some issues of special relevance for the near future: the perception of technology, the robotization of society or artificial intelligence, all from the most playful and entertaining perspective of electronic music.
Sonic Robots will present, in the Revillagigedo Palace Chapel, GLITCH ROBOT: a performance in which all the music will be created live by robots, where the margins between robotic noise, the ins and outs of its mechanics and robotic bass music are explored.
The machines used in this performance are made up of recycled parts and other 3D printed parts, such as hard drives, relays, motors, solenoids… This experience has been carried out in collaboration with the pioneers Mouse On Mars, to whom the Sonic Robots will be accompanying him in his next and spectacular live show.
OSCAR MULERO PRESENTS MONOCHROME. COLLEGIATE OF SAN JUAN BAPTIST OF THE REVILLAGIGEDO PALACE. Sunday, May 1.
The Revillagigedo Chapel will host the dark and mental electronica represented by one of the great European champions of techno sound, Oscar Mulero. Pulsating rhythms and dense atmospheres.
Oscar Mulero, a unique artist of his kind, embraces different scenes, always providing a personal vision. His particular style comes from an obsessive devotion to sound, and his innate restlessness makes him jump from dense and deep techno, which he produces from his platform Pole Group, to experimental electronica.
An artist in constant evolution who visits the LEV for the first time to present his new unreleased material for the first time, far from his techno facet, closer to mental landscapes linked to experimental electronic universes.
JÄGERMUSIC SHOWCASE. LABOR CAFETERIA
A collaboration between the LEV Festival and Jägermeister promotes a Jägermusic Showcase, a proposal that aims to support emerging state musical creation.
On Saturday, April 30, at the Laboral Cafeteria, we will be able to enjoy a live performance by the Malaga-based BSN Posse and JMII, representatives of Jägermusic, and the Asturian Condres, endorsed by the LEV Festival.
The Malaga-based BSN Posse have released one of the most powerful national albums in recent years, Southern Trax, which has been hailed by critics and the public as the best of 2015. The music of BSN Posse, heroes of national footwork, with a marked melodic character , combines deep bass inherited from London Bass music with hip hop, jungle and sampleadelica; while JMII, from the Hivern team, offers us a live show full of dance rhythms inherited from Detroit house and visionaries like Model 500 or Laurent Garnier, in one of the most playful proposals at L.EV.
Condres was formed in 2002 under the alias Penca Catalogue, where Luis Sierra recreates himself in the inexhaustible British Hardcore Continuum infected with residues of pop music and shoegazer layers, in an amazing journey that does not pay attention to the mental invention of time, wielding with strength and serenity His best weapon: the blender.
MAP ON MASK WORKSHOP
The concern to trace the evolution of new audiovisual languages mentioned above links with the proposal of the MAP ON MASK Workshop, which seeks, based on the approach to the video mapping technique applied to volumetric objects, to establish connections with different disciplines.
The workshop, hosted at LABoral Centro de Arte and framed in the Activities Program of the ENCAC Network (European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation), aims to be a space for play and research on the video mapping technique and its different applications, taking as a starting point the application to volumetric objects.
Over four days, participants in this workshop will learn different software techniques, electronics, LED lighting, video mapping and interactive installations. Taught by Mike Latona, aka Los Hermanos, visual artist, VJ, mapper, painter and graphic designer. In 2013, he joins the Geneva Mapping Festival team to develop set designs, as well as curating some of the festival’s activities and workshops. Latona is also responsible for the Bam Festival in Liège and MapMap, open video mapping software developed in collaboration with Alexandre Quessy and Sofian Audry.
+ INFO: http://www.levfestival.com/16/activityes-paralelas/taller_map-on-mask/
SCHEDULES
Although the complete schedules will be available later, you can consult the programming by days and spaces here: programming by days and spaces.
http://www.levfestival.com/16/lev-2016-programacion-por-dias/
