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Powsolo Awards busca premiar a la mejor instalación sonora del mundo

marzo 19, 2020

La Colección SOLO y Powland Network, un colectivo con base en Ámsterdam dedicado a la divulgación de arte sonoro, lanzan los PowSolo Awards, un galardón que reconoce los mejores trabajos en esta disciplina artística.

Los premios nacen con la misión de apoyar y reconocer los mejores trabajos en arte sonoro con carácter internacional a través de un primer premio y tres accésits. El primer premio, ‘Best Sound Art’, estará dotado con un premio de 10,000 euros para la obra ganadora y su exposición en Espacio SOLO.

Además del primer premio, el jurado seleccionará tres accésits correspondientes a Mejor artista emergenteObra más viral Instrumento más innovador, cada uno de ellos reconocido con 1,000 euros.

Los ganadores serán elegidos entre los nominados por un jurado internacional  y los premios se conocerán en una gala desde el Espacio SOLO en Madrid el 29 de Abril del 2020.

Sobre Powland

Powcademy es un Instituto de Arte Sonoro, fundado en 2017 en Amsterdam. Inició como una reunión para la comunidad local de artistas sonoros de aquella ciudad, pero después daría pie a la creación de Powland Network.

Powland Network está formada por varias ramas, entre ellas:

  • Powcademy: Programas educativos en torno al arte sonoro.
  • The Soundart Agency: Agencia que promueve el trabajo de diferentes artistas.
  • Powshop: Tienda online de arte sonoro coleccionable.
  • Powzoo: Una aplicación web que será lanzada próximamente.
  • The Powsolo Awards: Que son los premios de los que estamos hablando en esta nota.

Además de todas estas ramas, Powland es un reconocido canal que difunde el trabajo de artistas sonoros que utilizan principalmente hardware electrónico DIY como medio de expresión.

Misión

Powcademy y la Colección SOLO, albergada en el museo Espacio SOLO en Madrid, unieron fuerzas para lanzar los Powsolo Awards. La misión de esta iniciativa es “elevar el sonido, crear nuestros primeros heroes del arte sonoro, y guiarlos a medida que construimos un puente entre el mundo del arte tradicional y la comunidad global de arte sonoro. Dando forma al futuro de una obra de arte aún por definir.”

Convocatoria

La convocatoria para participar en este concurso ha expirado, la fecha limite para meter tu proyecto fue el 28 de Febrero del presente año. Sin embargo, la intención de este articulo es mostrar aquellos proyectos participantes que nos parecen más interesantes.

Proyectos participantes

Powland, a través de su cuenta de Instagram, ha ido compartiendo en las últimas semanas aquellos proyectos que están compitiendo en este concurso. A continuación te mostramos aquellos que más nos han gustado hasta el día de hoy.
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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. THOM KUBLI, Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Black Hole Horizon – What kind of relations exists between oscillating air, black holes and soap bubbles? What effect does the sound of horns have on the human psyche and why is it present in various creation myths? What impact does gravity have on our collective consciousness? Where do spectacle and contemplation meet? Black Hole Horizon is a meditation on a spectacular machine that transforms sound into three-dimensional objects and keeps the space in steady transformation. The nucleus of the installation is the invention of an apparatus resembling a ship horn. With the sounding of each tone, a huge soap bubble emerges from the horn. It grows while the tone sounds, peels off the horn, lingers through the exhibition space and finally bursts at an erratic position within the room. .” . . . #powland #coleccionsolo

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. ENRIQUE DEL CASTILLO, Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Phonoptic readers – The installation consists of two optical readers of my own invention (the Phonetic Readers), which would work simultaneously by reproducing two loops of celluloid film (both loops are original pieces).These readers are capable of transforming light into sound through optical-analog reading. The installation will generate a constantly changing composition as both devices do not go at the same speed.The sound pieces in celluloid films are their own compositions, with abstract and textural sounds.I have designed both devices and made them with steel, methacrylate and wood. They are solid and resistant.” . . . #powland #coleccionsolo Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. MICHELE SPANGERO, Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Ad lib – The sound sculpture Ad lib. (2020) combines a medical machine for automatic pulmonary ventilation with 6 organ pipes that play a musical chord, a fragment of music (a reference to the “German Requiem” op.45 by Johannes Brahms) frozen to the constant rhythm of the automatic breath. The title of the work, the abbreviation of the Latin expression “Ad libitum”, is generally used to express the freedom of a person to act according to their own judgment in a given context. In musical terminology “Ad libitum” gives discretion to the player over parameters such as how many times to repeat a number of bars in a musical score.The action of this artificial organ raises ethical questions about the discretion and responsibility involved in this mechanical Requiem, a metaphor for a limit that men delegate to technology.” . . . #powland #coleccionsolo Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. ENRICO ASCOLI, Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Auspicio – Wine is taken as a central narrative element in the territorial storytelling of the artists Enrico Ascoli and Hilario Isola. The work Auspicio stages the process of the must fermentation, exploring its rarefied energetic and sonic dimension. In antiquity, the auspice consisted of the prediction of the future through the observation of the behaviour of birds, in particular their song, flight and way of feeding. Auspicio is an off-grid sonic piece that once triggered has need of neither electricity nor its creator, becoming an autonomous organism that expresses itself through birdsong.” . . . #powland #coleccionsolo   Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. DAVID BOWEN, Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Cloud piano plays the key of a piano based on the movements and shapes of the clouds. A camera pointed at the sky captures video of the clouds. Custom software uses the video of the clouds in real-time to articulate a robotic device that presses the corresponding keys on the piano. The system is set in motion to function as if the clouds are pressing the keys on the piano as they move across the sky and change shape. The resulting sound is generated from the unique key patterns created by ethereal forms that build, sweep, fluctuate and dissipate in the sky.” . . . #powland #coleccionsolo Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. RODRIGO TORO MADRID , Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Intervene the Melbourne-Clark deck in Antofagasta, at the north of Chile. The project consisted in creating a site-specific installation based upon the concepts and terms “origin” and “myth” connected to that specific landmark, which holds a lot of historical significance in the desertic region.The work is composed of a large scale record player, which was built in a way to resist the strong weather conditions and the impact of the sea nearby. It uses a propeller to gather energy from the wind which then is transmitted to the spin of the record. The variations of the wind produce changes on its reproduction speed, distorting the musical content. Besides the propeller, the device has a crank to be activated by hand. Given the historical past of this place, my attempt was to create a machine which metaphorizes a parallel between the wind and the fragility of memory over time” . . . #powland #coleccionsolo Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. STEVE PARKER, Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Ghost Box is a playable sound sculpture modeled after a WWII era short wave radio. When touched, the sculpture plays different looped audio clips of coded transmissions, including Morse Code, spirituals of the Underground Railroad, the shofar, the Hebrew Shofar, and the Iron Age Celtic carnyx. Embedded into the sound sculpture are a series of musical scores on paper that incorporate maps and icons of the WWII Ghost Army, the functional wires of the attached electronics, and map pins. A ghost box is a communication tool used by paranormal investigators to speak to the dead. Typically, a ghost box is a modified portable AM/FM radio that continously scans the band. It is believed to create white noise and audio remnants from broadcast stations that entities are able to manipulate to create words and even entire sentences.” . . . #powland #coleccionsolo Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. VIRGILE ABELA, Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Acoustic Pendulum is an immersive and modular installation project for 1 to 4 pendulums, placing gravity and acoustics in a generative equation. Echoing Foucault’s pendulum, this kinetic installation is an extension of Steve Reich’s “Pendulum Music” created in 1966, where hanging microphones oscillated over speakers put on the ground, depending on a timing principle limited by the influence of gravity on the duration of their swing. Here the device is reversed: the microphone stands located still in the room and the speakers arranged inside the pendulum move in the room space. It animates a pendular system capable of generating, in both space and time, its own sound and movement from a state of motionlessness.Through the artistic diversion of a physical theory, Acoustic Pendulum offers us a sensory and contemplative experience in symbiosis with gravity. The installation becomes its own self generating sound wave of poetic landscapes in fragile, connected and suspended equilibrium…” . . . #powland #coleccionsolo   Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. OLIVER DICCICO, Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Coney Island – The rotating acrylic disc has electrodes which alternate between a positive and negative DC voltage. The alternating DC voltage is fed to four electromagnets placed around the perimeter of the horizontal ring. The ring is fitted with a series of wooden pieces, each with a permanent magnet oriented to repel the one next to it. As the electromagnets change their field from north to south they attract or repel the wooden pieces creating a rhythmic wave effect. The speed of the rotating disc determines the rhythm. ” . . . #powland #coleccionsolo Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. BRIAN MCNAMARA, Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Ceratium apocalypse – Ceratium are unicellular organisms that can both work together and exist separately to survive, this Soundart piece mimics these creatures in both basic form and in that each box is separate but works together to make a landscape of sound. 5 robots each with unique arm attachments make different movements and in turn different rhythms as they navigate and strike the enclosures. On their own the rhythms are basic but the sounds created by the 5 units combine the form a rich soundart experience.” . . . #powland #coleccionsolo   Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. MARTIN MESSIER , Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Sewing machine orchestra – Invites us to closely observe the choreography of twelve sewing machines orchestrated by computer and amplified by contact microphones. Like a many-headed metal monster in continual movement, the machines perform with increasing power, flooding the space with a tonality that becomes progressively heavier.Starting slowly, the rhythm accelerates, generating a cacophonic concert. The installation gradually drives the motors up to top speed, releasing the machines’ full noise potential. The work is unsettling by the general agitation that emanates from it as the sound composition animating it builds to a crescendo. Exemplary of precise tool-making, sewing machines play both a personal and collective role in the economy. The objects used here are not industrial. Collected and re-assembled, domestic sewing machines, lined up together and with autonomous action, create an effect of unreality. Ghost objects of another era, they evoke a past transfigured and brought back, de-contextualized,.to the present.” @martin_messier_ . . . #powland #coleccionsolo Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. NOLAN LEM, Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Autonomas sense object – Focusing in on the Velcro material as a sound fetish object, this piece explores the overlap between the ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) and BDSM (bondage dominance sadism masochism) communities. Here an appendage shrouded in leather bondage material is pecked, probed, and poked by 3D-printed prosthetics of the artist’s fingers. Speakers affixed just below the object are driven acoustically by the Velcro extrications that transfer energy into the speaker cones to excite and induce sound production. Along with the Velcro-laden fingers, this mechanical transduction operating on the speaker cones use the natural amplification from the materials to create a perpetual ripping sound.This piece addresses issues related to techno-eroticism, automata theory, and casts the physical body as a cyborgian object of erotic materiality. The “BDSMR” object complicates our awareness of sound by examining aurality as a fetish agent that stimulates a sort of sensory arousal that derives from our darker more lurid impulses.” – @no_lem . . . #powland #coleccionsolo   Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. JIRI SUCHANEK, Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Perplex – Parabolic acoustic mirrors are powerful tools for concentrating and focusing sound waves. They were used also as predecessor of radar. Several huge concrete objects were built in Great Britain between WWI and WWI for detection of incoming aircraft fighters. After invention of radar these statues stayed in the countryside as memento of unused war technology. I am re-using this physical principle and obsolete war technology in my recent project as a tool for focusing and distributing sonic content – information – in a room. The mirrors are rotating. The primal three sonic sources are static and whole dynamic sound spatiality is done completely mechanically- acoustically thanks to movable reflective brass surface. As today society situation can be found as an undeclared information war full of psyops where information is spread, reflected, modified and circulated in internet space until it dies in absorption I’ve found this behaviour in some sense very similar to the behaviour of sound in a room sound (whose live span is much more shorter of course). Title “Perplex” 1 for me expresses the target (?) or unintended social situation where rise of data flow is taking its toll. ” – @jiri.suchanek_ . . . #powland #coleccionsolo   Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. JACUB KOZNIEWSKI (PANGENERATOR), Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “The wall of sound – The installation is an experiment in bringing the tools for creating electronic music – sampler / sequencer – into the public space and thus creating an open platform for music expression suited for broad audience. The spatial form corresponds with graffiti art but few more layers are introduced – interaction, light and sound. The main component of the setup – hexagonal node module – allows you to record and play the sound. Thanks to the numerous links between the nodes virtually endless variations of the sequences consisting of the peoples voices are possible. The open dialogue with the audience brings the installation to life, saturates it with meaning and allows it to evolve day by day constantly bringing new voices and new sequences into the mix.” @pangenerator . . . #powland #coleccionsolo   Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el

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POW! Eligible for the 2020 Powsolo Awards. STEVE PARKER, Your submission will be shown to the jury the coming weeks#powsoloawards __________________ “Sirens – This sculpture reimagines the function of the contemporary civil defense siren. Rather than projecting conventional warning tones, Sirens plays intermittent recordings of songs of distress as a call to action. Civil defense sirens are used to provide warnings of approaching danger and to indicate when danger has passed. Sirens were initially designed to warn citizens of air raids in World War II, but many are no longer operational. In Greek mythology, the Sirens were dangerous creatures who lured nearby sailors with enchanting music to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island.” – @parkerstevesounds . . . #powland #coleccionsolo . . . #soundart #eurorack #modular #synth #lovers #inspirational #artistsoninstagram #soundsculptures #design #music #art #tv #cinematography #filmmaking #modernart #contemporaryart #circuitbent #glitchart #musicproduction #sounddesign #instaart #soundon #powcademy #museum Una publicación compartida de Powland (@powland.tv) el


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