La producción Fonográfica MUSLAB – Planeta Complejo, es una selección de piezas sonoras de la Muestra Internacional de Música Electroacústica MUSLAB, que tiene el objetivo de reunir y difundir la creación y exploración sonora de artistas de diferentes países del mundo, e impulsar el proceso creativo y de comunicación artístico contemporáneo, para acercar a nuevos públicos a la creación sonora contemporánea, dar acceso a los artistas a nuevos foros de representación y crear una red de comunicación internacional por medio del desarrollo diferentes actividades culturales, formaciones en nuevas tecnologías y conciertos de arte sonoro.

MUSLAB – Planeta Complejo – Vol. 1·2·3·4 presenta diferentes obras sonoras audiovisuales y fotográficas realizadas por creadores de todo el mundo mediante las cuales se analizan nuestras diferentes identidades culturales a través de una relación de procesos sociales endémicos y de globalización. Un estudio social donde la identidad cultural es vista desde el arte contemporáneo. La propuesta parte del hecho de que una característica fundamental que posibilita la evolución en la naturaleza es la diversidad, ya que si hay diversidad, hay posibilidades de intercambio genético y de mutación por lo tanto de adaptación a un entorno cambiante este fenómeno se refleja en contextos tanto biológicos como también sociales y culturales. Así la diversidad garantiza la evolución y la adaptabilidad de ahí la importancia de la identidad cultural y los aspectos endémicos frente a los globales.

MUSLAB -Planeta Complejo-

The Phonographic production MUSLAB – Planeta Complejo, is a selection of sound pieces from the MUSLAB exhibition. MUSLAB is an International Electroacoustic Music Exhibition that aims to bring together and disseminate the creation and sound exploration of artists from different countries around the world, promote the creative process and contemporary artistic communication, to bring new audiences closer to contemporary sound creation, and create an international community network through the development of different cultural activities, training in new technologies and sound art concerts.

MUSLAB – Planeta Complejo, presents a selection of sound pieces, audiovisual and photographic works made by creators from all over the world, through which our different cultural identities are analyzed through a relationship of endemic social processes and globalization. A social study where cultural identity is seen from contemporary art. The proposal is based on the fact that a fundamental characteristic that enables evolution in nature is diversity, since if there is diversity, there are possibilities of genetic exchange and mutation, therefore, adaptation to a changing environment, this phenomenon is reflected in contexts. both biological and also social and cultural. Thus, diversity guarantees evolution and adaptability, hence the importance of cultural identity and endemic aspects compared to global ones.

AI Phantasy – Panayiotis Kokoras

In AI Phantasy I used a vacuum cleaner to set into vibration various membranes and other probs at the end of the suction tube, which I then modulated with my hands following the Fab Synthesis paradigm. In addition, I developed a series of circular pan flute kind of sound generators which could rotate electromechanically at variable speeds. The word Phantasy refers to a phantasy with “Ph” as a state of mind of an infant child during the early stages of development. On the other hand, Fantasy (with “F”) is a reverie, a daydream, an imagined unreality that anyone can create.

Due to a Reported Emergency Would All Passengers Leave the Station Immediately – Sze Ying Chan

Based on a recording I made in Green Park station. Green Park station is a busy London Underground station. It consists of 2 side connected by a tunnel. One day when I was heading to my choir rehearsal, the station was extra busy and had become overcrowded. An announcement was broadcasted to evacuate the passengers. At the time I thought something more serious had happened and as I made my way through the long and packed tunnel I decided to record my journey to the exit of the station. The more I listen to the recording, the more interesting sounds my ears picked up and I decided to orchestrate the interesting moments using additional recorded violin and flute sounds.

syn – Robert McClure

syn (2021) is four short movements centered on an imagined future  world where synthetic beings have become the prevalent species. Digital has become the new religion. Any yearning for the distant past organic way of life is shut down. The work follows a synthetic being, SB-1021, and their “sins” against this new culture such as stopping progress in the machine of production (i. corpora), imagination (ii. intima), and developing self-expression (iii. loquere) before their eventual punishment and termination (iv. viscera) as they are torn apart from the inside out.

Premonitions, Landscape at Twilight – Andres Luz

Premonitions, Landscape at Twilight is based upon Salvador Dalí’s pastoral, Spider of the Evening (1940). In this work we see the painter’s signature depiction of misshaped figures: a stretched female nude, a molten cello, and a softened airplane; each of which have lost their familiar rigidity, existing beyond the boundaries of conscious reality. The painting is a visual allegory of the European theater in WW2 created at a time when the bulk of the terror, tragedy, and destruction yet had to unfold to affect untold millions. This work is a manifestation in sound of this painting.

Voces I-II-III-IV-CODA (Documental Electroacústico) – Leandro Ariel Mantiñán

With resources such as quotation, deconstruction, resignification and appropriation of indigenous and folkloric fragments, the work tries to give voice to those who are not heard, to the nameless, to navigate and venture into, as Yupanqui said, the “legion of the anonymous”. That legion that hides our roots and that modernity often makes us overlook. The present work is a sound documentary that, through its five parts, makes visible the problem of our cultural identity, asks who we are, where we come from, humbly paying homage to those who stepped on these lands before us.

ReComposed 2.8 Plus – Luigi Morleo

ReComposed 2.8 plus is a new work of the album by Luigi Morleo of the title NO BORDER TheaterDance which is a work produced for many shows of the theater and dance. In this work Morleo have combined different fragment of old and new his works and recomposed in a new soundscape.

Cut Voice – Lea Tania Lo Cicero

Cut Voice is a piece composed around the painting ”La Decollazione di San Giovanni Battista” by Caravaggio. This piece is realized with my voice through improvised sessions to be reworked through cuts, repetitions, superimpositions and shifts. This composition is a commissioned piece.

Shomo – Diego Ratto

What people say is not always what they think, people act to exist in the society, to live a life that follows certain rules. Occasionally, particular events bring us outside our routine in which we are constantly immersed, almost to the point of drowning. Some thoughts emerge like interferences in our mind-set creating different patterns in our steady life, that force us to stop and reflect, in a moment of reconnection with ourselves, as human being and part of the nature. How magical and refreshing is the place where it is allowed to reconcile with our body and mind?!

Tafail [تفاعيل] – Wajdi Abou Diab

TAFAIL (تفاعيل) is a piece for piano and tape, based on the sixteen vertical axes of Arabic poetry, translating their subdivisions into music, deeply examining the rhythm of weighted Arabic poetry, and the division of poetic verses, and linking the classical Arabic language with classical Arabic music by modeling poetry subdivisions in Arabic musical phrase, and introduces the piano as a contemporary Arabic instrument. In the recorded Tape, we can listen to poetic, melodic, or spoken phrases, as well as recordings of Arabic instruments and electronics, in an attempt to adapt contemporary music to serve Arabic musical ideas.

Pond Sediment – Mark Ferguson

An environmental cross-section of pond sediment, providing a composed perspective from a chosen depth of 1.24m. Here, along the lower edges of the shallows, curious tadpoles investigate our ‘microphone’. Small rocks move and jostle together, shifted by invisible currents. Water mint gently bubbles as it photosynthesises. A single female mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) calls from the surface. Everything here is in delicate transition, barely noticed. An imploding bubble ends our reverie.