I will be participating in the conference next_generation 3.0 on 13 and 14 june, presenting the work I have developed this year. 

Every two years since 2005, it has invited more than twenty studios from all over Germany and the world to a major “next_generation” festival at ZKM. In two daily concerts and a four-day symposium under the motto “Light–Space–Sound,” more than eighty new compositions will be publicly performed, analyzed, and discussed in the event spaces of the ZKM with a total of 150 participating composers and artists. Many of these works will be presented for the first time ever.

Long time, no see.  What have I been doing lately ? Actually since September of last year I have been working on a new piece of software I called SupaStrings in honor of it being my first supercollider major project. 

  The patch simulates a network of strings using a digital waveguide model. The strings are connected one to another and sound from each one flows into the adjacent strings. The strings can be excited with several noise generators and live input. Each string is to be spatialized by a number of  loudspeakers each simulating the sound the string produces at certain length l along it. 

  I expect to start using this live soonish.

Last week I had the pleasure blasting my drones through the Acousmonium system of the GRM. The piece presented was “Tranquility of the Void”, a quite minimal sustained guitar tones piece, originally in 4 channels, which was diffused through some 30 speakers of all shapes and sizes.

I will be playing live the 10th December at the Regentekamer, Lange Beestenmarkt 108, Den Haag. There will be 5 different projects performing, I will be the last one. It starts at 8:00pm, I will play at around 10:00pm.

Yes, it has finally seen the light of day (or electrical lamps). 

“I was vaguely aware of something”  is available for download here.

Another drone based mixtape from Pablo Sanz. It contains one track from my upcoming album (which is coming very soon).

I’ve decided to change my project name from Zelub to ZLB, aka Zorg Liberation Brotherhood. Things change, the world is in perpetual flux…

Yesterday I debuted live one of the tracks from the upcoming album. This version was 4 channel tape plus video. It was played/projected in the sonology discussion concert, at the Den Haag Conservatory which has a very nice hall with an excellent PA system, including 4 subwoorfers and a huge screen!!

Video here

Today I have finished mastering the new album. The tracks are ready to go, now I just need to work on the album art. It will be a double release in dvd (surround sound) and mp3/flac stereo (binaural). The mixing was done fully in surround, and the stereo version will be a binaural transcode of the surround masters. It’s around 60 minutes long, divided in 6 tracks. The album name will be “I was vaguely aware of something”. I hope I will be able to do some live gigs to support the release.

 20 - 27 September - Miguel Negrão/Zelub - CCB Soundwalk (part of Festival Música Viva). One track from my forthcoming album was selected to be presented in a sound instalation outside CCB (Centro Cultural de Belém). It’s a 5 minute excerpt which will played during the whole week.