Xesús Valle

Project: Diálogos Táctiles
Category: Sound Art, Video
Period: July 2007
Event: Artist Residency

The Project I presented was based on the interaction with Nodar landscape, besides the simple field recording, in which the artist acts just like a mere spectator. In this case, I sought to develop a set of “dialogues with the landscape” and not just “on the landscape”, recording the sounds generated by the physical contact (percussive) with different kinds of vegetation (trees, bushes, plants) and ground (soil, stones, water), and additionally taken as intermediary other elements that are not from the landscape but are present in it (objects left by their inhabitants). Each action arose from the natural attraction between the photographic look and the texture of each element of the landscape. The project was materialized through a set of video actions based on the previous actions an recordings.

Xesús Valle | Galicia, Spain

Xesús Valle was born in Vigo (Spain) and is an audio & visual artist, percussionist, vocalist and Net DJ. He started by studied persussion and vocal techniques and since the late 80’s formed several bands and personal projects.

Since 2002 Xesús develops two different audio projects, Plumbandplumber and Uveaele. With plumbandplumber he dedicates to the creation of electroacoustic collages from all sorts of sound sources (discography: “Come early go late”,  “organic feedback” and “live set alga á superficie”) and with Uveaele he manipulates sound spaces (discography: “o forno das formulacións”). All his discography is published under “alg-a netlabel”, of which he was a manager. Xesús has been performing in different spaces of Galicia and Portugal (IFI – Pontevedra, Salanasa – Santiago de Compostela, Vademecum – Vigo, Sinsalaudio – Vigo, 2005 Brg – Braga, etc.).

He plays with O.M.E.G.A. Orquestra de Música Espontánea Galega, where he manipulates, soundscapes and computer based sound actions.

Recently he created the sound space for Xavier Durringer’s theatre piece “Crónica de dias inteiros, de noites inteiras” with the participation of “A Factoría Teatro” and “Disquedanza” companies. Soon this work was edited by Alg-a net label.