Agustí Fernàndez, Evan Parker, Joan Saura, Marc Egea, Mariona Sagarra, Catalina Girona, Andriy Antonovskiy, Carles Hac Mor, Ester Xargayand Roger Sans

The piano is very much in the spotlight at the 2008 edition of Música13. Although we often have resident artists at Nau Côclea, this time the resident is a grand piano.
From 5 to 25 July, the piano will occupy the Nau exhibition room and will be at the disposal of all the pianists, poets, improvisers and piano students alike who wish to come and play it. Piano resident, which will feature rehearsals, jam sessions, classes and workshops, gatherings, interdisciplinary trials, games, and recordings, is looking forward to and relying on the involvement of everyone to round off this year’s Festival.

The Festival starts on July 5 with an explosive quartet: Agustí Fernandez will play with the saxophonist Evan Parker, the electronic keyboard player Joan Saura and Marc Egea on the hurdy gurdy.

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Agustí Fernández returns to Nau Côclea after his 6 September 2003 sunrise-to-sunset improvisation on the piano. The result, albeit ephemeral, was partially recorded and appears on the magnificent album “Camallera”, which is illustrated by Frederic Amat. Those who follow him closely know that he is one of the most significant explorers of improvised music in Spain. He is also an extraordinary catalyst and an expert in dialogues with instruments of all sorts. We will have the chance to listen to him in a duo with Evan Parker, one of the kings of free jazz and one of the fiercest free saxes in the world of improvised music.
The Festival will continue with Joan Saura, a keyboard player who has played with virtually all the world’s improvisers, with dancers and with video-creators. Lastly, Marc Egea will play the hurdy-gurdy, an instrument lost in medieval times that has recently been recovered for contemporary improvisation. His repertoire also features theatre, poetry and performance.
From this day onwards, anything might happen. Naturally, if you like the piano -not only listening to it, but playing it as well – then this is your place.
Some artists have already confirmed they will attend. On 11 July, Mariona Sagarra, accompanied by the piano, will sing some songs from her forthcoming album. On 18 July, Carles Hac Mor, Esther Xargay, Andriy Antonovskiy and Catalina Girona perform in “Desconcert de dits i dites mètrics per a piano de cua” (Confusion of metric fingers and sayings for grand piano).
Throughout both July and August, Nau Côclea will stage a programme of video-creation about the piano: pianos played, pianos hammered to bits or pianos that constitute the cornerstone of a space, pianos as furniture and almost human body-like pianos.
The Festival will close with Bach’s Goldberg Variation played by Roger Sans. There will be literary, oneiric and cinematographic appendices with several surprises.

Program

5 July at 10 p.m.
Piano Resident
Agustí Fernandez piano, Evan Parker Sax, Joan Saura keyboards, Marc Egea hurdy-gurdy

11 July at 10 p.m.
Evening
Mariona Sagarra, piano and voice

18 July at 10 p.m.
Desconcert de dits i dites mètrics per a piano de cua
Catalina Girona, anti-keyboard pianist, Andriy Antonovskiy, Cosac Mamai, Carles Hac Mor, undisciplined demigod, Ester Xargay, Tombaigira Valkyrie.

26 July at 10 p.m.
Goldberg Variations
Roger Sans, piano

7 to 25 July, “Burning pianos” video-creation showings.

From 7 to 25 July, the piano will be available for proposals of all kinds. If you have an idea, contact Côclea on 972795002 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
info@naucoclea.com. The sooner, the better!

Ateneu de Barcelona, c/ Canuda. 10.00 p.m. on 15 May

L·L: un punt volat (L·L: an interpunct) is an interdisciplinary project that brings together videoartistic creation, photography, poetry and music. During her residence at the Nau Côclea Centre of Contemporary Creation in Camallera, Berlin artist Betina Kuntzsch investigated the graphic sign the geminate l (the letter l·l) using photographs and videos both of its graphic use and in its symbolic representation in the landscape. Of all the languages that use the Latin alphabet, this sign appears only in written Catalan. The poets Laia Noguera and Carles Hac Mor continued the process using Kuntzsch’s visual material. Their texts have also marked the reworking of the artist’s work. This dialogue is prolonged in the investigation of Josep Manuel Berenguer, an author of electronic music, who gives the dimension of sound to the project.
The work is presented in multimedia format and will be performed at 10.00 p.m. on 15 May at the Ateneu in Barcelona, as part of the Festival Loop for videocreation and the Barcelona Poetry Week.

Pere Portabella, at a recent presentation of “The Silence before Bach” told the audience: “I cannot tell anything because I have no arguments”, a play of words that suggests systematic flight from narratives with a plot in order to give viewers freedom and power of interpret. This is a factor with which videocreation, like music, the visual arts or dance, has been familiar for some time.
Nau Côclea proposes these young artists to Loop because of the aptness of their affinity and topography. They all have a common peripheral, almost borderline approach to videographic creation: with a slant towards film, philosophy, politics or electronics, they orbit the video with strange ellipses, and, naturally, without a plot.

It will be presented by Clara Garí.

“We Walk on Electron Clouds” is a hybrid book. It was produced both jointly and separately by Montserrat Moliner and Dani Torrent, and features photographs that enter into dialogue, superimpose and delete one another, and are complemented with drawing in a dance full of silences.

“We Walk on Electron Clouds” is also a book rooted in and subject to the landscape, which it forces to integrate the point of view, or subjectivity, of the passer-by. These are the same landscapes for the two artists and the same landscapes with which the residents of Saus-Camallera-Llampaies are so familiar.
Each point of view is in fact different but each reality belongs to a single polyphony.

With the publication of this volume, Nau Côclea continues its commitment to publications that are both rooted in the local territory yet have an international scope, which discuss the local landscape on the basis of the notion of the subjectivity of point of view in a common environment. Publications include the “Llibre de Fantasmes” (Book of Ghosts) by Tanja Smit or “Vuelan las Mudas” by Sergi Aguilar and Clara Garí.

TVinseum pretends to be a new space for the Vinseum, the wine Museum at Vilafranca del Penedès.
It is a Tv channel on Internet and will be the meeting-point for the users here and anywhere, a platform with the world.

The proposal, that has been done by the Nau Côclea, is born with the intention to cover the period that few spaces of the Museum will remain closed for alterations.
Some collections will be closed to the public, temporary, and the direction of the Museum wants to supply this absence with a more intense presence of the Palau, the workers or those people that, in someway, have been related with the Museum during its existence.

This is the intention of “Presències al Palau” and the TV that we open: rebirding the Palau memory with the participation of firms, companies, associations, creators, and people that will share its experiences about the place.

Tvinseum will offers some connections on realtime, open to the general public for living the experience to create alive TV.

More information www.vinseum.cat

Program

3. Festival Desviat
December 7th & 8th
camallera / llampaies (alt empordà)
free entrance
organized: el respingo / llampaies rual core / nau côclea

December the 7 th
6 p.m. Nau Côclea
ONE FOOT IN THE FUTURE

Détourné Magazine. Presentation

The free distribution of culture . A Marc Sempere conference

1+3+1/2. Tronk’s short film. Presentation

Miles de Viviendas. Cristophe A. Documentary. Presentation

THE OTHER IN THE PAST
December the 8 th
5 p.m. Nau Côclea

History of a fire. From the Paris comune to the birth of punk. Servando Rocha. Free screening.

Surrealist Poets – 1936 Revolution: Mary Low and Benjamin Péret. Conference by Andrés Devesa and Pepe Gutiérrez .

In girum imus nocte et consumirum igni. Audiovisual essay. Guy Debord

ON THE MOVE TO FREEDOM
10 p.m. Llampaies theatre. Concerts

IX post-folk activist. Barcelona

Pau Riba, ribaibal performance. Tiana

Litius instrumental post-rock. Castelló

Mundo Grua dance-punq. Madrid

A proposal by Nau Côclea.

In collaboration with the Centre d’Art SantaMònica.

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If intellectual property had always existed, humanity would never have known epics such as Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible and the Koran.

In recent years, technologies such as p2p networks, Creative Commons-type licences, and movements such as free software have prompted a historic moment of profound change in the system of intellectual property that has existed since the start of the modern age, and placed it at the gateway to a new paradigm of cultural production.
Copyfight is a network of activities that have been organised to spread information and prompt debate on the crisis of the current model of intellectual property and on the emergence of free culture at the start of the twenty-first century.
Copyfight appeared in 2005 with the organisation of two momentous events – at the CCCB and at the Centre d’Art SantaMònica in Barcelona. These featured key figures on the copyleft scene such as Lawrence Lessing, John Perry Barlow and James Wales, and led to the presentation of Creative Commons/Spain and the bibliographical translation of Free Culture into Spanish.
Copyfight, together with Nau Côclea, has now come to the Centre Cultural La Mercè in Girona to create an open framework of reflection on the need for a new paradigm of royalties in cultural production.
CopyFight features a seminar on the situation of royalties and copyleft in contemporary music and the visual arts, a documentary exhibition of copyleft projects, a library with reference works, an educational programme, an inaugural concert, and other activities.
CopyFight invites different agents from Girona’s cultural scene –especially representatives of the visual arts and music – and an audience interested in taking part at two days of debate with several specialists on changes in the current intellectual property model.

PROGRAM

8 November 2007 at 9.00 p.m.
INAUGURATION AND OPENING CONCERT
Auditorium of the Centre Cultural la Mercè
Tarántula (Rock-Barcelona)
This rock group, which records on the Producciones Doradas label, came to fame throughout the country when they released their first album, which may be downloaded for free, on the Internet.
Free entrance.

EXHIBITION
9-17 NOVEMBER 2007
Projects Copyleft. Library CopyFight. Legal. Consults popular.
Free entrance.

9-10 November 2007
COPYFIGHT SEMINAR
Free entrance. Previous inscription: to send mail info@naucoclea.com, with the subject COPYFIGHT SEMINAR.

Friday, from 5.00 p.m.
FREE MUSIC AND ROYALTIES
The appearance of new free licences and the phenomenon of downloading are changing the habits of music production and consumption and of the music sector at large. Musicians, consumers, record companies and promoters are rebuilding their relationships in view of the emergence of the new paradigm.

RUBEN GINESTÓS, manager of the dpop project, an online platform for promoting music with copyleft licences.
ANI “DEFUNKID” LÓPEZ, copyleft musician, activist and coordinator of www.lamundial.net free music website.
DAVID BRAVO, alawyer specialised in royalties, coordinator of the Copyleft Foundation and author of the freely downloadable book, “Copia Este Libro” (Copy this Book)

Saturday, from 5.00 p.m.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE VISUAL ARTS
What role are new free licenses playing in artistic production? What kind of system should there be for distributing audiovisual creations on the Internet? To what extent does the current model for managing royalties benefit artists? What impact does the copyleft scene have on art?

RUBEN MARTÍNEZ, artist and member of the cultural producer “Yproductions”, and distributor of Hamaca video art.
NATXO RODRÍGUEZ, lecturer in Business Administration at the University of the Basque Country and member of the RDZ Foundation, promoter of the Kopyleft Symposia and of the Copylelft-Arte mailing list.
EVA SORIA, lawyer, graduate in History of Art from the University of Barcelona and in law from Golden Gate University, San Francisco. Head of Visual Arts at the Ramon Llull Institute and currently teaching a class on royalties on the MA in Contemporary Art at UB/IL3.

Creativeleft

A project by Albert Girós for Nau Côclea in Camallera

Underway

The landscape of Camallera, which before was calm and governed solely by cyclical seasonal changes, is now undergoing a violent process of change.
DeVenir, a project to observe change and intervention in the landscape surrounding Nau Côclea, sets out a route in the form of a word through the landscape.
The act of walking prompts the writing in the territory to materialise and leaves traces, or alphabetic paths, in its wake.
The walker’s experience is thought, and mental and sensual experience.
The landscape’s experience involves being travelled, understood, lived in and assimilated, along with its vitality, in the map of the walker’s personal history.

Installation

In Southeast Asia and other places on the earth, there are communities of fireflies that emit pulsar light in unison. Small but great flashes of synchronised light.
It was discovered, upon observation, that these tiny, insignificant insects, were able to use the emission and uptake of infrareds to synchronise their rhythms in order to emit together and thus cooperate in attracting females from further afield.
Hence, Luci, a small sculpture or little “machine”, made from five light and sound emitters with a mechanism fitted to simulate the behaviour of a colony of fireflies. Designed in 1994, it prompted José Manuel Berenguer to create the current installation “Sin nombre y sin memoria” (No name, no memory).

During the day, or in the presence of another light source independent from the community, such as a light bulb, the members of the Luci community act on an individual and unorganised basis. However, if the external interference disappears, the lucis gradually organise themselves and pulsate in synchrony. In the process from total chaos to order, Luci goes through all kinds of pre-synchronisation; moments verging on rhythm, beautiful percussive improvisation seen as pulsations of light and heard through its small speakers. Luci thereupon becomes virtual music, virtual language, and virtually animal until eventually a mortal, dull and irritating order appears. It is an eternal dream of sorts, which, as in stories, only a kiss can end.
The Luci phenomenon in “Sin nombre y sin memoria” has been designed to be shown by projectors and to operate in space in response to visitors’ behaviour. According to José Manuel Berenguer,

“Sin nombre y sin memoria deals with neither truths nor untruths. It does not even refer to them. It is an attempt to build realities and either material or immaterial things that do not exist. It does not matter whether they are understood, as I am the first not to understand them. They are not there to be understood. They are only there to be. These things are extraordinarily rudimentary beings with comparatively primitive, emergent, predictable or unpredictable behaviours. They are based on feedback mechanisms that are applied to their visual and sound appearances and constitute the functional basis for their tiny capacity for recall. In all of them I programmed algorithms that at times are implemented internally to regulate their behaviour and at others prompts behaviour by using possible external information that provides them with the sounds and the positions of visitors. It is not always easy to appreciate whether their behaviour is internally or externally determined, whether they are arbitrarily free or whether they are conditioned to some extent by something different from them. They are not always comprehensible. They are never totally understood although it is even harder to understand whether oneself is understood. How do you know if what before you understands you? Is its behaviour a symptom of the fact you belong to its fantasies? Does it have fantasies? How do you know whether what is before you (which you do not know whether it understands you or not), is or is not a being? You can only believe what it is or what it is not, and whether it understands you or not. Everything depends on what you expect a being to be, whatever it is.”

This open-air, summer festival features the sounds of electroacoustic and experimental music in the forest, under the stars of the night sky. Routes, talks, concerts and audiovisuals bring music to the night in the heart of nature and take us closer us to the mystery of the Cosmos. The public neither sits nor remains impassive at these events but takes part, walks about, observes and plays.

For the second year running, the theme of Festival Música13 are the bonds that have linked music to astronomy over time and still do so today. Astronomic music and musical astronomy will once again be the main theme at this annual meeting, which this year is being held for the fifteenth time. As the festival falls on the night of the new moon this year, the sky conditions should be apt for observing distant stars and the deep sky: stars and comets, musical journeys, courses recorded on GPS, telescopes, the harmony of the spheres, orbital music, and the deep sky, etc.
The earth, the solar system, our galaxy and the whole universe have often been imagined as a great universal song. Music has also frequently been inspired by the mysteries of the Cosmos. Pythagoras established the idea of a universe ordered by musical harmony, and thereafter variations on this idea passed from mind to mind throughout the history of mathematics, philosophy and astronomy to the present day. The theme of this Música 13 festival is therefore the Songs of the Cosmos.

Director: Josep Manuel Berenguer

Saturday 4 August

8.00 p.m. > “Passacaglia” Bandaèria travelling concert
A concert through the forests of Lluena (Camallera)
Director : Xavier Maristany
With: Adrià Grandia: flageolet, Adrià Bauzó: flute, saxophones, Xavi de la Salud: trumpet, percussion. Xavi Banegas: trombone, Xavier Maristany: wind, Abel Queralt: poet, meteorologist and percussion.
The group’s musicians will take you on a walk through the forests of Lluena, play games with you and encourage you to participate. This is a trip full of surprises, wind instruments, natural sounds, and musicians who appear and disappear. Bandaèria, a well-established wind ensemble, breaks down the barriers that separate it from the public, does away with script and the stage, and makes music participatory and increasingly different. The group has performed at venues as different as La Boqueria Market in Barcelona, the Ciutat Vella Flamenco Festival, the Teatro Valle Inclán in Madrid, the Carnaval des Deux Rives in Bordeaux, and La Panera in Lleida, etc.

10 p.m.> Inauguration “No Name and No Memory”.
Installation by Josep Manuel Berenguer
Audiovisual installation. Intelligence, change and thought. The fireflies of Kuala Selangor.

Wednesday 8 August

8.30 p.m. > Talk: “The mechanics of the sky 1″ by Toni Guntín, astronomer. Talk and observation of the sky.
This educational talk on the cosmos deals with the proportions of the universe, the solar system, the size of the stars, and galaxies seen from the inside, and prepares participants for subsequent observation by telescope. This is the season of the meteorite shower known as the “Tears of Saint Lawrence”, which can be seen even without using optical instruments.

9.30 p.m. > Talk with object “Pythagoras: Songs from the Cosmos” Clara Garí
Music, mathematics and the astronomic universe …everything Pythagoras thought about musical harmony, numbers and their relation with the world.

10.00 p.m.> Telescopic observation of the sky
Planets, stars, nebulas, galaxies and meteorites, seen with the naked eye and by telescope. With the collaboration of the astronomy associations of the counties of Girona.
(Bring a blanket or shawl so you don’t get cold and a sandwich so you don’t go hungry.)

Thursday 9 August

8.00 p.m.> concert “The Music Cre8tor and the Stars” Jane Rigler.
With Zachary Seldess.
Workshop/participatory concert for boys, girls, mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, grandparents with flutes, electronic sensors and video projection. Jane Rigler offers a participatory concert featuring audience interaction with the “Music Cre8tor” (a sensor/software interface designed by Zachary Seldess and Jane Rigler) in combination with a 3D audio/visual environment designed by Zachary Seldess.
Jane Rigler combines flute with voice and several audiovisual electronic slides. Her performances are based on ancestral techniques and personal experiment. She has presented her work at several contemporary music festivals in the United States, Argentina, Japan, the United Kingdom and Germany. She specialises in concerts for children and is the cofounder of two contemporary music groups: MovableDo (in Madrid) and The Cubic Second (New York), which present new music at unique venues such as the MoMA in New York and the Centro Reina Sofia in Madrid.
Zachary Seldess is a composer, programmer, guitarist, and teacher living in New York. He currently works at Harvestworks as a resident programmer/teacher and at Brooklyn College CUNY as adjunct music faculty. He also works at The CUNY Graduate Center’s New Media Lab , creating interactive virtual sound environments in 3D Game Space using the Torque Game Engine and Max/MSP. Zachary is founder and co-director of Intermedia Arts Group

[Harvestworks Engineer]
[Art Games - an ongoing project @ CUNY NML]
[intermedia arts group]

Friday 10 August

8.30 p.m. > Talk. “The mechanics of the sky 2″ by Toni Guntín, astronomer. Talk and observation of the sky.
This talk deals with the cosmic year, space travel, and the movements of the sky. With the collaboration of the astronomy associations of the counties of Girona.

9.30 p.m. > Talk with objects “Copernicus: singing of the spheres” Clara Garí
Copernicus followed the footsteps of Pythagoras to devise a perfect system in which the planets reflected musical harmony.

10.00 p.m.> Telescopic observation of the sky. Observation of the meteorite shower known as the “Tears of Saint Lawrence”. With the collaboration of the astronomy associations of the counties of Girona.
(Bring a blanket or shawl so you don’t get cold and a sandwich so you don’t go hungry.)

Saturday 11 August

10 p.m.> concert. “Taking Soundings” Yolandeh Harris, electronic
“Taking Soundings” is a technique that determines the form and depth of the sea, in a similar way to that in which GPS gathers information from satellites. Yolande Harris uses the sounds generated by these signals to invite us on a drifting journey.

All the events will take place at Nau Côclea in Camallera and are free.

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