mini-tour: Ángel Faraldo | timitiminono | ZLB (special guest – myūto)
07/01 PORTO – BREYNER 85 (c/ Myûto)
Rua do Breyner, 85 – 23:30 | 5€
10/01 VIGO – ALG-A LAB
Camiño da Igrexa, n254. Barrocas, Valadares 18:30 | free entry
12/01 A CORUÑA – CASA DAS ATOCHAS
Rua Atocha Alta 14 (Montealto) 21:00 | 3€
13/01 FERROL – ATENEO FERROLÁN
Rúa Magdalena 202-204 20:30 | 3€
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Ángel Faraldo (ES, 1980) is a musician concerned with improvisation, digital instrument design and composition. He studied Classical Guitar at the Royal Conservatoire of Madrid and holds a Master’s Degree in Sonology (Royal Conservatoire, The Hague). As an improviser, he usually plays his computer-based instrument MISS. He has performed and worked throughout Europe, with improvisers such as Günter Heinz or Mike Majkowski, and collaborated with ensembles such as Orquesta FOCO or GIV. His most recent projects embrace the electroacoustic duet with Yolanda Uriz YUAF (release available at larraskito netlabel), the quartet Majkowski/Altman/Uriz/Faraldo, The Royal Improvisers Orchestra (NL) as well as extensive solo playing with MISS. His most recent compositions include the interactive sound-installation diario de Cualquiera (2006-2007) and Apropiación (2006), for two computer- -processed narrators, pre-recorded music and choir. His tape piece Talla (2005) was selected in the first Radio Art Context “En el aire”, organized by Hablar en Arte (Madrid). Currently he is designing a project with the POW ensemble (NL). MISS is a computer-based musical instrument which represents an attempt at integrating certain compositional rules within improvisational contexts. Basically, the course of playing with it is the course of developing a composition in which the gestures of the performer are interpreted to simultaneously shape the timbre, envelopes, sequences and structure ofthe intervention.
ZLB, debuted in 2007 with the shoegaze flavored and minimalism inspired “Through the eyes of a dream”. More recently he has been flowing into ambient and drone delicate tapestries, weaved with the objective of slowly making your soul wonder into other worlds, at the same time strange and familiar. His latest album, “I was vaguely aware of something” is “of a meditative nature with psychedelic undertones, a gentle calmness sometimes shadowed by the threat of anxiety, of being launched outwards”. ZLB is currently working on a massive simulated spatial string system, which will spit out a densely packed spectrum of all your favorite frequencies, and then, many more too. Slow delicate evolution of sometimes calming, other times unsettling drones is still the plat du’jour.
www.myspace.com/zelub
www.friendlyvirus.org/artists/zlb/
Under the moniker of timitiminono, David Félix conjures up a series of soundtracks for imaginary zombie movies set in Lassie America, where little boys fall down deep dark wells and the skies are heavy with the constant menace of storm. timitiminono has been exploring the concept of plunderphonics as applied to acousmatics, by transforming sounds plundered from his environment, electronics, city, radio, pets, etc. into objects with their own very personal aural identity, confusing loops with drones, samples with synthesis, and creating a music that is simultaneously meditative and emotional. David Félix started this project with no academic musical background, before he discovered the Pythagorean monochord, John Oswald, or the Indian tambura. He has released “microexorcism” (Cryoworks, 2008) and “red” (Friendly Virus, 2009), as well as contributing tracks to the Friendly Virus compilation “Everything is missed” (2008) and “Shhhh…”, a radio piece by austrian experimental composer Bruno Pisek (on Kunstradio, 2009). His solo live performances include the first edition of Festival Rescaldo (Lisbon, 2007), experimental venue Klub Moozak (Vienna, 2008) and both editions of Festival Falhado (Lisbon, 2008 and 2009). David Félix is co- -founder and an active collaborator of the Friendly Virus collective.
Myūto is a project of musician Filipe Lopes (born in 1981, in Porto). In 2003 he graduated in Music Education and in 2007 he graduated in Composition. In 2006 we was awarded best experimental audio at the Festival Black&White (pt) and in 2007 he was a resident composer at Miso Music Portugal (LEC – pt). In 2009 he finished his Master’s Degree at the Institute of Sonology, working with Paul Berg, Joel Ryan, Kees Tazellar among others. Since 2007, he belongs to FactorE, the resident educational ensemble in the Educational Services at Casa da Música, in Porto. Also, since the year 2009 he his a teacher of electronic music at Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo, in Porto.