The 10th edition of Elektra - digital arts Festival - will take place from May, 1st till 10th of this year at the Usine C, at the Cinémathèque québecoise and at five galleries in Montréal
Digicult is invited with the project + 39:CALL FOR ITALY to take part at the fifth edition of the international festival Cimatics , one of the most important European event in the field of artistic and...
Netmage 08, an international festival whose aim is of exploring media innovation in the context of electronic arts, will take place in its eighth edition in Bologna from January 24th to 26th, and in Ferrara...
Cimatics focuses on audiovisual performances crossing borders; joining art, music and pop culture into one big audiovisual feast. At the AV Club, dj/vj-sets are intertwined with audiovisual concerts, performances...
Digicult is invited with the project + 39:CALL FOR ITALY to take part at the fifth edition of the international festival Cimatics , one of the most important European event in the field of artistic and...
PERFORMA 07 will take place this year from October 27 - November 20 in New York, with an expanded roster of consortium members, ten major new PERFORMA Commissions, a lively and event driven educational...
Screen Music belongs to the program of the Creativity Festival , a new and innovating event promoted in Tuscany to affirm its role of “netpoint” in the global creativity net, a “pop” event with a high...
Semiconductor make artworks, which reveal our physical world in flux; cities in motion, shifting landscapes and systems in chaos. As forces of nature come into play on our surroundings, we witness events...
Created especially for the Cosmocaixa Planetarium, Constellations is an audiovisual project by Stephan Mathieu and Caro Mikalef inspired by the music of Antonio de Cabezón, one of the most important Renaissance composers of keyboard music, who was born 500 years ago this year. The project will be presented this weekend in Barcelona at Sonar Festival 2010.
The roots of the project lie in Stephan Mathieus Virginals series, a set of contemporary works performed with historic media and early instruments.
For Constellations, Mathieu and Mikalef will utilize electromagnets to set the strings of a harpsichord into continuous vibration. By expanding the natural sound of the instrument using magnetic fields, the resonating strings generate harmonically rich sonorities that gradually fill the planetarium space with overtonal patterns.
To frame the piece with a prelude and coda, harpsichordist Carles Budó will perform special interpretations of original music by Antonio de Cabezón (who composed by applying theories of astronomy) on a second instrument, creating a dialogue between the work of the Renaissance composer and Stephan Mathieu and Caro Mikalef’s take on sound.
