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2º Festival Vibracional TPS
Saturday 4.June.2011, 1.30pm
Xesús Valle (computer) & Rui Costa (computer)
Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela (ES)

Rui Costa, artistic director of Binaural/Nodar will participare in 2º Festival Vibracional TPS, to take place on Saturday, 4.June.2011 at Cidade da Cultura, in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). The event is organized by TPS – Centro de Novas Tecnoloxias do Pico Sagro, a collective of multidisciplinary Galician artists focused on the free improvisation practice as an artistic and collective work method . Rui Costa will play with the Galician musician Xesus Valle as a duo and their presentation will be based on the creation of harmonic and polyrhythmic structures from the improvised interplay between the artists, using granular synthesis. The sound elements from the real world will be subjected to an abstraction and formalization process in order to obtain primordial acoustic elements that can be molded by the artists.

Binaural announces a retrospective exhibition of 8 video works created under the Nodar Artist Residency Program. The exhibition, co-organized with Cine Clube de Viseu, happens between July, 11th and August, 31st at the Grão Vasco Museum, located in Viseu (40 km away from Nodar).

The videos will be presented in two modules, that reflect two possible aesthetic approaches to the place: “Nodar: Visions of Sound” presents 4 works that use audio field recordings from Nodar as a means of composing soundscapes; “Nodar: Visions of Space and People” presents 4 works that establish an expressive interaction with the local landscape or communities.

The Grão Vasco museum is a Portuguese state monument and is named after one of the most important Portuguese painters of the Renaissance, Vasco Fernandes (also known as the Grão Vasco), who lived and worked in Viseu. The museum, founded in 1916, occupies the building of the old Seminary, was built in the late 16th century in Mannerist style, and had its interior recently rebuilt by the famous Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.

Exhibition program:

Nodar: Visions of Sound
2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.
Videos by John Grzinich (USA/Estonia), Xesús Valle (Spain), Pali Meursault (France), and Martin Clarke / Alicja Rogalska (UK/Poland)

Nodar: Visions of Space and People
4.00 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Videos by Maile Colbert (USA), Suzanne Caines (Canada), Christine Niehoff (Germany) and Evelyn Müürsepp (Estonia)

To read the exhibition flyer (in Portuguese), click here.

The Galician (Spain) sound artist Xesús Valle stayed at NOGS in July 2007 and created a series of amplified micro-improvisations as a result of interactions with the Nodar landscape, with an emphasis on the vegetable elements.

His project, “Tactile Dialogues” was presented to the local audience in the form of a video, collecting a series of these interactions:

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And as a parallel project, Xesús collected hours of field recordings from Nodar and around that he later edited and mixed to create the nOdArAuDiO piece:

Xesus Valle - nOdArAuDiO Play Now

NOGS – Art Residencies Center of Nodar
July 2007 events

Saturday, July 14 2007
Location: Nodar, S. Pedro do Sul (Portugal)

4.30 p.m. – Nature walk on the banks of River Paiva *
9.00 p.m. – Documentary film “Borders” by Pedro Sena Nunes *
9.30 p.m. – Xesús Valle (Galicia, Spain). Sound art and video. Presentation of the art project developed in Nodar “Diálogos Táctiles”
10.15 p.m. – Documentary film “The Death of Cinema” by Pedro Sena Nunes *

* A co-organization with “Projecto Criar Raízes” from S. Pedro do Sul, Portugal. The registration in the nature walk (which costs 10 euros per person, dinner included) should be made by calling +351 232 728 330.

Saturday, July 21, 2007
Location: Parada de Ester, Castro Daire (fair’s square)

9.30 p.m. – Martin Clarke (England) and Alicja Rogalska (Poland). Audiovisual performance. Presentation of the art project developed in Nodar “Nodar Audio-Visual Plateaus”.
10.30 p.m. – Suzanne Caines (Canada) Video Performance. Presentation of the art project developed in Nodar “Conversations”.