1. Nau Côclea residency accommodates projects of visual arts, scennic arts, performance, music, writing and public arts.
 The residency is intended to enable the artist to encounter the ideal conditions of space, concentration and facilities for his or her research.
 The residency neither envisages nor rules out, the production of research projects or their exhibition.

2. Residencies include accommodation for artists (maximum 4) and work space for a minimum of 7 for a maximum of 90 days.
 Some Nau Côclea resources: high-definition video camera, sound equipment, etc. may be used. Consult the appendix for features of the spaces and the list of resources.

3. Nau Côclea staff could help artists to make the necessary contacts with the local population and suppliers of the materials and services associated with their research.

4. Artists who wish to apply for the residency must send the following documentation by e-mail resident@naucoclea.com

IN JUST ONE DOCUMENT NAMED WITH THE NAME OF THE PROJECT RESPONSABLE (ex: PepitoPalotes.pdf) :

- contact details of the person in charge of the project

- number of participants

- dates for which the residency is requested (with an alternative option should there be one)

- the spaces required (accommodation / work room / exteriors)

- a letter of intent with a text in which the artist explicitly agrees, if he or she is chosen, to perform the residency in the periods requested.

- a description of the project (maximum 3 sheets with maximum 3 photos, JPG format)

- a brief CV (maximum 1 sheet)

(we will not accept nor projects only by postal mail neither projects exceding the requested information)

5. Applications for 2011 may be sent up to 4rd October 2010.

6. The jury will be composed by professionals of the sector and the Nau Côclea team.

7. Resolution will be announced the 5th November 2010.

The result will be communicated by e-mail to the participants and will be on the Nau Côclea web-site.

8. The fact of appliying means the acceptation of the rules.

Appendix
a. Residency
- 30m2
- 2 rooms: 1 with double bed and 1 with two single beds
- small lounge, bathroom and small kitchen
- Wi-Fi, fireplace, refrigerator, use of washing machine
b. Work room
- 80m2 grey cement in smooth walls, ceiling and floor. No windows. 3.10
metres high.
c. Exterior
- 8,000 m2 use of which is restricted and depends on the nature of the
project.
d. Equipment
- E MAC G-4 computer + LACIE 250 Gb external hard disc + Final Cut pro
- Macbook 12′ laptop
- streaming equipment (canopus, LINUX backup computer) restricted use
depending on loan programs
- SONY HDR - FX 1 E – HANDYCAM video camera. restricted use,
depending on loan programs
- 2 HITACHI CPS 220 projectors
- PANASONIC DMC-FZ30EGM Digicam
- HDD recorder (80Gb) & DVD
Sound system
- 2 MACKIE SRM450 sound monitors / C300 + feet
- 2 RODE NT5 microphones
- 4 SHURE SM58 microphones
- 1 MACKIE CFX 12, 12 channel mixing table
- 1 VIRTUALIZER PRO DSP2024P sound processor
- 1 ATH-M40fs precision headphones
- 1 Ultra G GI 100 professional
- halogen spotlights (non-specialised)

Deep Listening Retreats founded in 1991 by Pauline Oliveros are for ear minded people.
Deep Listening® is a form of meditation based on experiencing heightened awareness of sound, silence and sounding. Deep Listening practice evolved and developed from Sonic Meditations (Smith Publications, 1971) an earlier body of work by Oliveros now performed in many parts of the world. Daily Retreat activities with instructors Pauline Oliveros, Heloise Gold and Ione include seven hours of daily ritual, attention to breath, listening/sounding meditations, T’ai Chi and Qi Gong movement practices, practicing, journeying for expanded creative resources, listening through dreams, tracking listening with sound journals, interaction, discoveries, exploration strategies for creating and performing, scoring, writing, drawing, creative movement sessions in the open air, listening for creative opportunities, free time, exchange and lively conversation.
Among those who attend Deep Listening Retreats are musicians and artists interested in expanding their understanding of sound and its effects on the body, meditators interested in enhancing their depth of practice through listening, teachers who want to encourage appreciation for listening in their students, and people interested in creativity, well being, relaxation, excitement and connection with others and the environment.

Retreat Schedule

Tuesday, July 6th
4-6 pm Welcome and accommodation of the participants
6 pm Beginning of the Retreat
8′30 pm Dinner

Wednesday July 7th - Saturday July 10th
Daily retreat activities are from 7-am to 1pm in the morning and from 4pm to 7pm in the evening.  Picnic lunch will be served at 1pm and dinner at 9pm. During the retreat there will be special non-verbal periods, morning walking meditations and movement exercises. In addition there will be  some evening sessions.
On Saturday July 10th at 7pm there will be a special closing performance with all the participants. This performance is an integral part of the workshop and will be open to the public.

Instructor profiles:
Pauline Oliveros is one of America’s most vital composers and improvisers. Deep Listening®, her lifetime practice is fundamental to her composing, performing and teaching. She is founder and president of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. in Kingston NY; serves as Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY; and Darius Milhaud Artist-in-residence at Mills College, Oakland CA. She is the recipient of the prestigious 2010 William Shuman Award from Columbia University.

Ione is the Dream Keeper for the Deep Listening Retreats. A counselor specializing in the creative process, she is also a noted author, playwright and poet whose works include the critically acclaimed memoir, Pride of Family Four Generations of American Women of Color, Listening in Dreams & This is a Dream! and Nile Night; Remembered Texts from the Deep.  Her works include Njinga the Queen King, the Lunar Opera; Deep Listening ForTunes, Io and Her and the Trouble with Him and the film Dreams of the Jungfrau. Ione is also an improvising spoken word artist who performs throughout the world.

Heloise Gold is a performing artist, choreographer, dancer, T’ai Chi/Qi Gong instructor and co-founder of ART FROM THE STREETS (a project for homeless artists). She has been teaching T’ai Chi since 1978 and runs a movement/arts studio in Austin Texas. She has been co-leading Deep Listening Retreats with Pauline Oliveros and Ione since their inception in 1991 and also runs week-long T’ai Chi Retreats annually in New Mexico. Her book Deeply Listening Body was published in 2008.

Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. fosters a unique approach to music, literature, art and meditation, and promotes innovation among artists and audiences in creating, performing, recording and educating with a global perspective.

Welcome and Accommodations

XXé Deep Listening Retreat will take place at the Contemporary Art Center Nau Côclea de Camallera, a beautiful natural place in Alt Empordà, Girona, Spain. People can reach us by car, train (Port Bou line Camallera station) or plane (Girona airport 30 km.)

Registration to the retreat includes accommodations and catering during 5 days.

• Basic accommodations will be at l’Hostal L’Avi Pep in Camallera, a very simple hotel with low prices. Students can walk from the hotel to Nau Côclea.
• We can also book higher priced Hotels for those who prefer this option. These hotels are 15km away from the retreat, so a car will be necessary should participants choose this option.
• Also 15 km far from Camallera there are many camp sites. You can book in any of them. For a comfortable (but naturally busy in July) camp site  by the sea, check: El Càmping Almatà. For another camp-site with fewer conveniences (but quiet and farther from the sea) check: Càmping Esponellà
• It is also possible to register without accommodations.

Price and Registration

1. Basic tuition 480 €
   Retreat, informational materials and snacks (coffee, tea, juices, biscuits, etc)
2. Catering tuition 650 €
   Retreat, mataerials and snacks (coffee, tea, juices, biscuits, etc). Picnic lunch and whole dinner.
3. Full tuition 750 €
   Retreat, materials and snacks (coffee, tea, juices, biscuits, etc). Picnic lunch and whole dinner. Accommodation in double room at Hostal L’Avi Pep in Camallera. Extra for individual use of double room 100 € (if available).

Seats are limited
To register, fill out the attached document and send it to tallers@naucoclea.com before june 15th.

registration form XX_DL2.rtf

A deposit of 150 € is required to confirm your registration too (follow the instructions of the registration form).  No registration will be closed before we have this information. The rest of the fees will be payed the first day of the Retreat. 

More info
Clara Gari 34-669395984
clara@naucoclea.com

SELECTED PROJECTS
CRONOLOGICALY LISTED AND UNDER THE NAME OF THE RESPONSABLE:

BiNeural-MonoKultur (Argentina) 02.01 – 24.01.2010 (reflexió_grup)
Samuel Trifot (France) 26.01 – 07.02.2010 (so/objecte_individual)
Iris Hetzinger (Austria) 09.02 – 27.02.2010 (performance_grup)
Craig Stewart (U.k.) 01.03 – 07.03.2010 (dibuix_individual)
Filipa Pontes (Portugal) 08.03 – 13.03.2010 (dvd_grup)
Juan Ayala (Madrid) 15.03 – 25.03.2010 (narrativa_grup)
Carlos Tálaga (Colombia) 10.04 – 01.05.2010 (video_individual)
Nathalie Speter (France) 04.05 – 10.06.2010 (performance_individual)
Sabina Holzer (Austria) 13.06 – 26.06.2010 (performance_grup)
Tomeu Moll (Mallorca) 20.07 – 30.07.2010 (música/dansa_grup)
Lucía Coco (Barcelona) 01.09 – 12.09.2010 (multidisciplinar_individual)
Pedro Cotes (Sevilla) 14.09 – 15.10.2010 (tecnologia_grup)
Dorothee Meddens (Holand) 17.10 – 16.12.2010 (video aeri_individual)

Nau Côclea has booked the following calendar for its own projects:
27.03 – 05.04.2010
01.07 – 19.07.2010
01.08 – 31.08.2010
16.12 – 31.12.2010

Inform you that we will open a blog for residents (passed, news and futures) to exchange
experiences, questions, fears, materials, anecdotes… and to build a more participative
residency. We invite you to use it.

1. Nau Côclea residency accommodates projects of visual arts, scennic arts, performance, music, writing and public arts.
The residency is intended to enable the artist to encounter the ideal conditions of space, concentration and facilities for his or her research.
The residency neither envisages nor rules out, the production of research projects or their exhibition.

2. Residencies include accommodation for artists (maximum 4) and work space for a minimum of 7 for a maximum of 90 days.
Some Nau Côclea resources: high-definition video camera, sound equipment, etc. may be used. Consult the appendix for features of the spaces and the list of resources.

3. Nau Côclea staff could help artists to make the necessary contacts with the local population and suppliers of the materials and services associated with their research.

4. Artists who wish to apply for the residency must send the following documentation by e-mail resident@naucoclea.com:

- contact details of the person in charge of the project
- number of participants
- dates for which the residency is requested (with an alternative option should there be one)
- the spaces required (accommodation / work room / exteriors)
- a letter of intent with a text in which the artist explicitly agrees, if he or she is chosen, to perform the residency in the periods requested.
- a description of the project (maximum 3 sheets with maximum 3 photos, JPG format)
- a brief CV (maximum 1 sheet)

(we will not accept nor projects by postal mail neither projects exceding the requested information)

5. Applications for 2010 may be sent up to 30th November 2009.

6. the jury will be composed by professionals of the sector and the Nau Côclea team.

7. Resolution will be announced the 15th December 2009.
The result will be communicated by e-mail to the participants and will be on the Nau Côclea web-site.

8. The fact of appliying means the acceptation of the rules.

Appendix

a. Residency
- 30m2
- 2 rooms: 1 with double bed and 1 with two single beds
- small lounge, bathroom and small kitchen
- Wi-Fi, fireplace, refrigerator, use of washing machine

b. Work room
- 80m2 grey cement in smooth walls, ceiling and floor. No windows. 3.10
metres high.

c. Exterior
- 8,000 m2 use of which is restricted and depends on the nature of the
project.

d. Equipment
- E MAC G-4 computer + LACIE 250 Gb external hard disc + Final Cut pro
- Macbook 12′ laptop
- streaming equipment (canopus, LINUX backup computer) restricted use
depending on loan programs
- SONY HDR - FX 1 E – HANDYCAM video camera. restricted use,
depending on loan programs
- 2 HITACHI CPS 220 projectors
- PANASONIC DMC-FZ30EGM Digicam
- HDD recorder (80Gb) & DVD

Sound system
- 2 MACKIE SRM450 sound monitors / C300 + feet
- 2 RODE NT5 microphones
- 4 SHURE SM58 microphones
- 1 MACKIE CFX 12, 12 channel mixing table
- 1 VIRTUALIZER PRO DSP2024P sound processor
- 1 ATH-M40fs precision headphones
- 1 Ultra G GI 100 professional
- halogen spotlights (non-specialised)

From 11th until 26th of july, 19 to 21 h. Monday Closed
Installation ‘Piano Peto’ (1990) by Jordi Benito
With the collaboration of Galeria Carles Taché

Saturday 11th of july, 21 h.
‘X JB. En record de Jordi Benito’
Músic, audiovisuals, dance, poetry and performances
Carles Santos, Agustí Fernandez, Mariona Sagarra, Joan
Casellas, Antoni Mercader, Carles Hac Mor, Ester Xargay,
Pere Noguera,Vicenç Viaplana, Rosa Queralt, Josep Parera,
Pilar Parcerisas, Vicenç Altaió and Joaquim Pibernat

Saturday 18th of july, 20 h.
‘The Art of Touch and a Celebration of Contingency. Performing the piano music of Morton Feldman’
John Tilbury, lecture

Saturday 18th of july, 22.30 h.
Morton Feldman ‘For Bunita Marcus’ (1985)
John Tilbury, piano

From Saturday 25th of july, 18 h. , until Sunday 26th of july, 18 h.
Erik Satie ‘Vexations’
Oriol Ponsatí-Murlà, piano

Saturday 25th of july, 20.30 h.
Enric Casasses ‘UH’

All events are free and will be broadcasted in streaming from coclea.tv

1. The Côclea residency accommodates projects of visual arts, performance, theatre, music, writing and interventions in pubic space.
The residency is intended to enable the artist to encounter the ideal conditions of space, concentration and facilities for his or her research.
The residency neither envisages nor rules out, the production of research projects or their exhibition.

2. Residencies include accommodation for artists (maximum 4) and work space for a minimum of 7 for a maximum of 90 days.
Some Nau resources (high-definition video camera, sound equipment, etc.) may be used. Consult the appendix for features of the spaces and the list of resources.

3. Côclea staff will help artists to make the necessary contacts with the local population and suppliers of the materials and services associated with their research.
They will also help creators to find resources for the production and future exhibition of their work.

4. Artists who wish to apply for the residency must send the following documentation by e-mail info@naucoclea.com:

- contact details of the person in charge of the project, number of participants, dates for which the residency is requested (with an alternative option should there be one), the spaces required (accommodation and work room, exteriors).
- a letter of intent and a text in which the artist explicitly agrees, if he or she is chosen, to perform the residency in the periods requested.
- a description of the project (maximum 3 sheets), and a brief CV (maximum 2 sheets)

5. Applications may be sent throughout the year.

Appendix

a. Residency

- 30m2
- 2 rooms, 1 with double bed and 1 with two single beds
- small lounge, bathroom and small kitchen
- Wi-Fi, heating, refrigerator, use of washing machine

b. Work room
-80 m2 grey cement, 3.10 metres high with smooth walls, ceiling and floor. No windows

c. 8,000 m2 exteriors use of which is restricted and depends on the nature of the project.

d. equipment

E MAC G-4 computer + LACIE 250 Gb external hard disc + Final Cut pro
Macbook 12′ laptop
streaming equipment (canopus, LINUX backup computer) (restricted use, depending on loan programs)
SONY HDR - FX 1 E – HANDYCAM video camera (restricted use, depending on loan programs)
2 HITACHI CPS 220 projectors
PANASONIC DMC-FZ30EGM Digicam
HDD recorder (80Gb) & DVD
Sound system
*2 MACKIE SRM450 sound monitors / C300 + feet
*2 RODE NT5 microphones
*4 SHURE SM58 microphones
*1 MACKIE CFX 12, 12 channel mixing table
*1 VIRTUALIZER PRO DSP2024P sound processor
*1 ATH-M40fs precision headphones
*1 Ultra G GI 100 professional halogen spotlights (non-specialised)

A route with an events programme, dedicated to the communities of people who have travelled and who travel the Pyrenees: shepherds, exiles, hikers, mule drivers, and smugglers. At some points of the route, travellers encounter the proposals of different creators. Natural workshops, actions, and interventions associated with the landscape, the memory and the historical reality of the Pyrenees.

With:
Laia Noguera (poetry)
Clara Garí (word botany)
Agnès Mateus (performance)
Àngel Mauri (history and narrative)
Museu de l’Exili (Museum of Exile - memory)
Job Ramos (visual arts)
Elena Font (visual arts)
Orquestrina d’Espolla (Band of Espolla - improvised song)
Christophe Farnarier and “el Pipa” (film)
Toni Guntín (astronomy)
Pep Aymerich (performance)

31 May 11.30 Rastre (Trace). Laia Noguera
Meeting point: door to the Teatre Principal. Olot
Walking recital. A literary experiment to bring the sites of Olot alive through poetry.
http://sites.google.com/site/laianogueraiclofent/rastredolot-1
In collaboration with the Panorama Festival

4 > 12 July “Trekking of the Arts” Journey on foot from Núria to Colera
Hiking, art and culture. A journey on foot featuring nature, history, art and creation. We will tell you where we are taking you but cannot reveal all the secrets of the artistic proposals that lie ahead: music, theatre, anthropology, humour, film, astronomy, and dance await.
If you wish to attend a specific “Trekking of the Arts” activity, head for the corresponding meeting point at the arranged time; the activity is free. If you wish to do the whole route, however, registration is required.
Information and registration: Maká Ecoturism
info@makaecotourism.com

4>12 July Herbarium of words. Clara Garí
Meeting point: blog Photography, writing, drawing and botany.
Collective creation of a travel log in association with the blog of the project.

5 July Pop up, blown up. Agnès Mateus. Performance
Meeting point and time: secret (ask at info@naucoclea.com a week before the act).
Appearances and disappearances on the way from Coma de Vaca to Ull de Ter. Agnès Mateus inaugurates the genre of “mountain performance”. A 3-hour walk is required to attend this activity.

6 July “L’esquadró de la Sang” (The Blood Squad). Carlist stories. Àngel Mauri. Narrative
Meeting point: Council of Rocabruna. Time: secret (ask at info@naucoclea.com a week before the event). Act in Catalan.
History and legend of Carlist ancestors by one of their descendents.

7 July “Caminante quizás hay camino” (Walker, perhaps there’s a way). Job Ramos Performance vs. gathering.
Meeting point: Casa Rural Can Planes, Rocabruna at 9 a.m.
An act in nature and its imaginaries. How can we know the limits between a work of art and a pilgrimage? Dedicated to Werner Herzog.

9 July 10.30 p.m. Fraternal Society of Espolla “Oidà, el Cant Improvisat!” (Improvised Song) Band of Espolla
Improvised verse. The festival of irony and popular poetry. Act in Catalan.

10 July 10.30 p.m. Garriguella camp site “The dream” documentary feature film
“The dream”, a documentary about the last migratory shepherd of the Plà de l’Estany. With Christophe Farnarier, director and “El Pipa” the shepherd who appears in the film. Act in Catalan.

11 July 11.00 p.m. Colera “Deep Sky” Toni Guntín, Astronomer
Lecture on astronomy and telescopic observation of the sky

18 September Les Escaules Pep Aymerich, performance
Closure of Pyrenees 2009 with a performance by Pep Aymerich
Part of La Muga Caula Festival

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.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fratte%20Rosa/44/106/22/?title=HangingRock_Musica13

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.