“Lecture About Myself” is a 30-minute audiovisual performative situation in which two musicians enter into a fictive dialogue with an artificial intelligence. The latter communicates via projected text and abstract video images. The former are seated at a table in front of the projection surface. With microphones, a vocoder, synthesizers and various controllers, they ‘speak’ a strange language that is only partly intelligible. Crucially, their vocal utterances are turned into control data that is used to feed various electronic sound and light processes. What results could be positioned somewhere between an uncanny conversation with an AI (parts of which are unintelligible) and a hallucinatory/phantasmagoric radio drama.

reConvert // Lorenzo Colombo and Roberto Maqueda

(ex)tension, by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert.

Our idea starts from the necessity to investigate space, to explore its features, finding the potential in acoustic properties and using them as a starting point for our research. How is it possible to create a three-dimensional and analogue sound system? How are we able to work with instruments that can move sound in space? Taking advantage from the use of customised industrial items, we will have the possibility to create three-dimensional audio images controlled and designed in real time by the performers. The concept that interests us is the single percussive impulse as music creator. We can change surface, speed of execution but the impulse is at the core of every percussive action.

reConvert + Fabrizio di Salvo

(ex)tension, by Luciano Azzigotti in collaboration with reConvert.

Plerome is a musical live videogame that plays with borderline objects between micro and macro scales. Distorted by spatial and perceptual paradoxes, two performers move through an infinite arcade, where actions oscillate between the real ones of the percussive micro-scale and a gloomy and sarcastic virtual world of dysfunctions. Could we invent an instrument that connects us with the tesseract? The intermediate dimension between nano-space and our real geometrical environment? Plerome is inspired by this Steglerian question, whether it is possible for brains and instruments to co-evolve. The piece is dedicated to reConvert as the third part of microbeatlogic.

Composition: Luciano Azzigotti
Performance: Roberto Maqueda & Víctor Barceló
Design Engineer: Alejandro Rodríguez

(ex)tension, by Luciano Azzigotti in collaboration with reConvert.

Plerome is a musical live videogame that plays with borderline objects between micro and macro scales. Distorted by spatial and perceptual paradoxes, two performers move through an infinite arcade, where actions oscillate between the real ones of the percussive micro-scale and a gloomy and sarcastic virtual world of dysfunctions. Could we invent an instrument that connects us with the tesseract? The intermediate dimension between nano-space and our real geometrical environment? Plerome is inspired by this Steglerian question, whether it is possible for brains and instruments to co-evolve. The piece is dedicated to reConvert as the third part of microbeatlogic.

Composition: Luciano Azzigotti
Performance: Roberto Maqueda & Víctor Barceló
Design Engineer: Alejandro Rodríguez

(ex)tension, by Luciano Azzigotti in collaboration with reConvert.
[Streaming concert]

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJULHXXlr6Q

Plerome is a musical live videogame that plays with borderline objects between micro and macro scales. Distorted by spatial and perceptual paradoxes, two performers move through an infinite arcade, where actions oscillate between the real ones of the percussive micro-scale and a gloomy and sarcastic virtual world of dysfunctions. Could we invent an instrument that connects us with the tesseract? The intermediate dimension between nano-space and our real geometrical environment? Plerome is inspired by this Steglerian question, whether it is possible for brains and instruments to co-evolve. The piece is dedicated to reConvert as the third part of microbeatlogic.

Composition: Luciano Azzigotti
Performance: Roberto Maqueda & Víctor Barceló
Design Engineer: Alejandro Rodríguez

reConvert+Distractfold

Kaj Duncan David: Sound & Vision (2012)
Ana Korsun: Vertigo for 2 sopranos, clarinet, e-guitar, perc. (2018-21)
Hana Hartman: The cloud factory (2018-21)
Para Gísladótir: Rage against reply guy (2021)
Fernando Manassero & Roberto Maqueda: The mesmerizing sound of acumulation II (2020-21)

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda & Lorenzo Colombo

Distractfold Ensemble:
Daniel Brew, e-guitar
Rocio Bolaños, clarinets
Alice Purton, cello
Katarzyna Ziminska, violin

Fernando Manassero, sound

reConvert+Distractfold

Kaj Duncan David: Sound & Vision (2012)
Ana Korsun: Vertigo for 2 sopranos, clarinet, e-guitar, perc. (2018-21)
Hana Hartman: The cloud factory (2018-21)
Para Gísladótir: Rage against reply guy (2021)
Fernando Manassero & Roberto Maqueda: The mesmerizing sound of acumulation II (2020-21)

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda & Lorenzo Colombo

Distractfold Ensemble:
Daniel Brew, e-guitar
Rocio Bolaños, clarinets
Alice Purton, cello
Katarzyna Ziminska, violin

Fernando Manassero, sound

reConvert+Distractfold

Kaj Duncan David: Sound & Vision (2012)
Ana Korsun: Vertigo for 2 sopranos, clarinet, e-guitar, perc. (2018-21)
Hana Hartman: The cloud factory (2018-21)
Para Gísladótir: Rage against reply guy (2021)
Fernando Manassero & Roberto Maqueda: The mesmerizing sound of acumulation II (2020-21)

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda & Lorenzo Colombo

Distractfold Ensemble:
Daniel Brew, e-guitar
Rocio Bolaños, clarinets
Alice Purton, cello
Katarzyna Ziminska, violin

Fernando Manassero, sound

reConvert+Distractfold

Kaj Duncan David: Sound & Vision (2012)
Ana Korsun: Vertigo for 2 sopranos, clarinet, e-guitar, perc. (2018-21)
Hana Hartman: The cloud factory (2018-21)
Para Gísladótir: Rage against reply guy (2021)
Fernando Manassero & Roberto Maqueda: The mesmerizing sound of acumulation II (2020-21)

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda & Lorenzo Colombo

Distractfold Ensemble:
Daniel Brew, e-guitar
Rocio Bolaños, clarinets
Alice Purton, cello
Katarzyna Ziminska, violin

Fernando Manassero, sound

(ex)tension, by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert.

Our idea starts from the necessity to investigate space, to explore its features, finding the potential in acoustic properties and using them as a starting point for our research. How is it possible to create a three-dimensional and analogue sound system? How are we able to work with instruments that can move sound in space? Taking advantage from the use of customised industrial items, we will have the possibility to create three-dimensional audio images controlled and designed in real time by the performers. The concept that interests us is the single percussive impulse as music creator. We can change surface, speed of execution but the impulse is at the core of every percussive action.

reConvert + Fabrizio di Salvo

reConvert will participate at EXIT FESTIVAL (Montevideo/Uruguay). FIME seeks to found a radical and committed scene of the music in the present; a hacking music space in South America. This edition will occur at the three main opera/concert houses in Uruguay. Its main axes are the production of concerts, seminars and the creation of a collaborative network between Latin American music centers. The Festival will count on with the Swiss presence of reConvert playing K. Rosenberger & Fabrizio di Salvo.

Concerts:

(ex)tension, by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert.
Amoeba, by Fernando Manassero in collaboration with reConvert.
WDWG, Where Do We Go (from here)…

“Lecture About Myself” is a 30-minute audiovisual performative situation in which two musicians enter into a fictive dialogue with an artificial intelligence. The latter communicates via projected text and abstract video images. The former are seated at a table in front of the projection surface. With microphones, a vocoder, synthesizers and various controllers, they ‘speak’ a strange language that is only partly intelligible. Crucially, their vocal utterances are turned into control data that is used to feed various electronic sound and light processes. What results could be positioned somewhere between an uncanny conversation with an AI (parts of which are unintelligible) and a hallucinatory/phantasmagoric radio drama.

reConvert // Lorenzo Colombo and Roberto Maqueda

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo, performance and AV co-creation
Fernando Manassero, composer
Ramiro Iturrioz, videos

(ex)tension, by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert.

Our idea starts from the necessity to investigate space, to explore its features, finding the potential in acoustic properties and using them as a starting point for our research. How is it possible to create a three-dimensional and analogue sound system? How are we able to work with instruments that can move sound in space? Taking advantage from the use of customised industrial items, we will have the possibility to create three-dimensional audio images controlled and designed in real time by the performers. The concept that interests us is the single percussive impulse as music creator. We can change surface, speed of execution but the impulse is at the core of every percussive action.

reConvert + Fabrizio di Salvo

(ex)tension, by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert.

Our idea starts from the necessity to investigate space, to explore its features, finding the potential in acoustic properties and using them as a starting point for our research. How is it possible to create a three-dimensional and analogue sound system? How are we able to work with instruments that can move sound in space? Taking advantage from the use of customised industrial items, we will have the possibility to create three-dimensional audio images controlled and designed in real time by the performers. The concept that interests us is the single percussive impulse as music creator. We can change surface, speed of execution but the impulse is at the core of every percussive action.

reConvert + Fabrizio di Salvo

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo, performance and AV co-creation
Fernando Manassero, composer
Ramiro Iturrioz, videos

Where do we go from here?

“… we have eyes as well as ears, and it is our business while we are alive to use them”.
John Cage

reConvert proposes this project for the IN/OUT Online Festival, where they will collaborate for the creation of a 72 hours non-stop piece of art, created live in collaboration with the visual artists: Efe Ce Ele (COL) and Milena Pafundi (ARG). The project will take place on a website, where people will be able to interact with the artists and to define how the project itself will be developed.

GENESIS
Where does the necessity of developing an online project lie, and is it possible to find conditions that are at the same time artistical and ontological? We have often wondered about the value of online events replacing normal artistic activity during the Covid-19 period. One of the interesting aspects that arisen is that often the necessity resides in administrative, economic, and not strictly artistic issues. What we want to propose is a format where digital interaction is the first axiom of necessity for the existence of the project itself. We realized that very often, online concerts force the listener to a passive position, decontextualized from space and time. This creates a total discrepancy with the real world, where in fact, every action taken by a user has a consequence on the web. We therefore wondered about the possibility of creating a dimension where the participant is not a passive part, but a necessity for the existence of the artistic product itself.

(ex)tension, by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert.

Our idea starts from the necessity to investigate space, to explore its features, finding the potential in acoustic properties and using them as a starting point for our research. How is it possible to create a three-dimensional and analogue sound system? How are we able to work with instruments that can move sound in space? Taking advantage from the use of customised industrial items, we will have the possibility to create three-dimensional audio images controlled and designed in real time by the performers. The concept that interests us is the single percussive impulse as music creator. We can change surface, speed of execution but the impulse is at the core of every percussive action.

reConvert + Fabrizio di Salvo

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo, performance and AV co-creation
Fernando Manassero, composer
Ramiro Iturrioz, videos

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo, performance and AV co-creation
Fernando Manassero, composer
Ramiro Iturrioz, videos

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo, performance and AV co-creation
Fernando Manassero, composer
Ramiro Iturrioz, videos

(ex)tension, by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert.

Our idea starts from the necessity to investigate space, to explore its features, finding the potential in acoustic properties and using them as a starting point for our research. How is it possible to create a three-dimensional and analogue sound system? How are we able to work with instruments that can move sound in space? Taking advantage from the use of customised industrial items, we will have the possibility to create three-dimensional audio images controlled and designed in real time by the performers. The concept that interests us is the single percussive impulse as music creator. We can change surface, speed of execution but the impulse is at the core of every percussive action.

reConvert + Fabrizio di Salvo

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo, performance and AV co-creation
Fernando Manassero, composer
Ramiro Iturrioz, videos

How is the process of assembling a concert before the audience arrives in a room fully prepared to offer a show? Starting from that base – the before and the after, we present this program conceived by the acclaimed Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen in which we propose a monographic program.

reConvert (Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo)
Simon Steen-Andersen (composer)

reConvert presents this program under the title: On nordic music

4c0st1ctr1g3r (2015), Kaj Duncan David (*1988, DK)
for two MIDI percussion pads, 909 Clap, 808 Kick samples & light

H [interludes] (2013), Simon Løffler (*1981, DK)
for motors and two musicians

Bølger (2015), Mads Emil Dreyer (*1986 DK)
for two musicians

Some pieces for two musicians and lights (2017) Kaj Duncan David –
for two musicians

e (2014), Simon Løffler
for three musicians

Performance: reConvert & Marta Soggetti

reConvert presents this program under the title: On nordic music

4c0st1ctr1g3r (2015), Kaj Duncan David (*1988, DK)
for two MIDI percussion pads, 909 Clap, 808 Kick samples & light

H [interludes] (2013), Simon Løffler (*1981, DK)
for motors and two musicians

Bølger (2015), Mads Emil Dreyer (*1986 DK)
for two musicians

Some pieces for two musicians and lights (2017) Kaj Duncan David –
for two musicians

e (2014), Simon Løffler
for three musicians

Performance: reConvert & Marta Soggetti

reConvert presents this program under the title: On nordic music

4c0st1ctr1g3r (2015), Kaj Duncan David (*1988, DK)
for two MIDI percussion pads, 909 Clap, 808 Kick samples & light

H [interludes] (2013), Simon Løffler (*1981, DK)
for motors and two musicians

Bølger (2015), Mads Emil Dreyer (*1986 DK)
for two musicians

Some pieces for two musicians and lights (2017) Kaj Duncan David –
for two musicians

e (2014), Simon Løffler
for three musicians

Performance: reConvert & Marta Soggetti

(ex)tension, by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert.

Our idea starts from the necessity to investigate space, to explore its features, finding the potential in acoustic properties and using them as a starting point for our research. How is it possible to create a three-dimensional and analogue sound system? How are we able to work with instruments that can move sound in space? Taking advantage from the use of customised industrial items, we will have the possibility to create three-dimensional audio images controlled and designed in real time by the performers. The concept that interests us is the single percussive impulse as music creator. We can change surface, speed of execution but the impulse is at the core of every percussive action.

reConvert + Fabrizio di Salvo

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo, performance and AV co-creation
Fernando Manassero, composer
Ramiro Iturrioz, videos

(ex)tension, by Fabrizio di Salvo & reConvert.

Our idea starts from the necessity to investigate space, to explore its features, finding the potential in acoustic properties and using them as a starting point for our research. How is it possible to create a three-dimensional and analogue sound system? How are we able to work with instruments that can move sound in space? Taking advantage from the use of customised industrial items, we will have the possibility to create three-dimensional audio images controlled and designed in real time by the performers. The concept that interests us is the single percussive impulse as music creator. We can change surface, speed of execution but the impulse is at the core of every percussive action.

reConvert + Fabrizio di Salvo

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo, performance and AV co-creation
Fernando Manassero, composer
Ramiro Iturrioz, videos

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo, performance and AV co-creation
Fernando Manassero, composer
Ramiro Iturrioz, videos

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo, performance and AV co-creation
Fernando Manassero, composer
Ramiro Iturrioz, videos

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo, performance and AV co-creation
Fernando Manassero, composer
Ramiro Iturrioz, videos

reConvert will offer workshops for composers and performers, as well as solo concerts and concerts in collaboration with other artists (Joan Jordi Oliver, Meitar Ensemble, …); during a new edition of Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium 2020 in Bangkok (Thailand).

Premiere of (ex)tensions, by Fabrizio di Salvo

(ex)tension, by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert.
neue musik in st.ruprecht  // Wien Modern

Our idea starts from the necessity to investigate space, to explore its features, finding the potential in acoustic properties and using them as a starting point for our research. How is it possible to create a three-dimensional and analogue sound system? How are we able to work with instruments that can move sound in space? Taking advantage from the use of customised industrial items, we will have the possibility to create three-dimensional audio images controlled and designed in real time by the performers. The concept that interests us is the single percussive impulse as music creator. We can change surface, speed of execution but the impulse is at the core of every percussive action.

reConvert + Fabrizio di Salvo

The LOXOSconcept organization, with the patronage of the “Comune di Matera“, the MiBAC and SIAE [Per Chi Crea], the SACEM, the Keyhole cultural association, the Quartetto Maurice, the L’Arsenale ensemble, the Cycling ’74, the INA-GRM, the Fra i Sassi Residence, promotes the FIFTH edition of the MA/IN 2020 [MAtera INtermedia festival]. LOXOSconcept wants to focus the attention on the electroacoustic culture and to offer an important stimulus for composers and multimedia artists, giving visibility to the electroacoustic genre and offering performative opportunities.

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo, performance and AV co-creation
Fernando Manassero, composer
Ramiro Iturrioz, videos

reConvert  will present amoeba, by Fernando Manassero in collaboration with reConvert at Mussica in prossimita’ Festival in Pinerolo (Torino, Italy).

About the  Festival:
Contemporary music events at Teatro del Lavoro in Pinerolo (Torino, Italy) organized in collaboration with La Terra Galleggiante.

Musica in prossimità includes concerts, installations,talks and performances within the big season about theatre, music and dance Teatro in Prossimità.

reConvert  will present (ex)tension, in collaboration with Fabrizio di Salvo and Amoeba, in collaboration with Fernando Manassero.

23.10: (ex)tension, Old-Town City Hall, Korzenna 33/35 Street

25.10: Amoeba, Old-Town City Hall, Korzenna 33/35 Street

NeoArte Synthesizer of Arts is:

– the festival held in Gdansk, Poland and presenting the most interesting trends in contemporary music and art
– the platform interconnecting artists from different cultural backgrounds and provenances
– the event of intriguing and uncommon profile giving a chance for the contact with music and art
– the medium expanding new areas of human mind and enriching our world perspective.

reConvert presents a new pedagogic project in collaboration with the Musik-Akademie of Basel.

How is the process of assembling a concert before the audience arrives in a room fully prepared to offer a show? Starting from that base – the before and the after, we present this program conceived by the acclaimed Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen in which we propose a monographic program. In it we will not only find the composer as an interpreter, but we also offer an artistic vision of the preparation of the concert and the use of the installations as a sound resource.

reConvert (Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo)
Simon Steen-Andersen (composer)

  How is the process of assembling a concert before the audience arrives in a room fully prepared to offer a show? Starting from that base – the before and the after, we present this program conceived by the acclaimed Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen in which we propose a monographic program. In it we will not only find the composer as an interpreter, but we also offer an artistic vision of the preparation of the concert and the use of the installations as a sound resource.

reConvert (Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo)
Simon Steen-Andersen (composer)

How is the process of assembling a concert before the audience arrives in a room fully prepared to offer a show? Starting from that base – the before and the after, we present this program conceived by the acclaimed Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen in which we propose a monographic program. In it we will not only find the composer as an interpreter, but we also offer an artistic vision of the preparation of the concert and the use of the installations as a sound resource.

reConvert (Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo)
Simon Steen-Andersen (composer)

  How is the process of assembling a concert before the audience arrives in a room fully prepared to offer a show? Starting from that base – the before and the after, we present this program conceived by the acclaimed Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen in which we propose a monographic program. In it we will not only find the composer as an interpreter, but we also offer an artistic vision of the preparation of the concert and the use of the installations as a sound resource.

reConvert (Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo)
Simon Steen-Andersen (composer)

The existence of humanity is in question. What other possible solutions are there? The sustainability researcher Peter Messerli and the composers Teresa Carrasco and Ricardo Eizirik discuss possibilities of “transformation”.

reConvert will premiere pieces by Teresa Carrasco and Ricardo Eizirik at the 2020 Edition of MusikFestival Bern

(ex)tension, by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert.

Our idea starts from the necessity to investigate space, to explore its features, finding the potential in acoustic properties and using them as a starting point for our research. How is it possible to create a three-dimensional and analogue sound system? How are we able to work with instruments that can move sound in space? Taking advantage from the use of customised industrial items, we will have the possibility to create three-dimensional audio images controlled and designed in real time by the performers. The concept that interests us is the single percussive impulse as music creator. We can change surface, speed of execution but the impulse is at the core of every percussive action.

reConvert + Fabrizio di Salvo

Premiere of (ex)tension, by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert.

Our idea starts from the necessity to investigate space, to explore its features, finding the potential in acoustic properties and using them as a starting point for our research. How is it possible to create a three-dimensional and analogue sound system? How are we able to work with instruments that can move sound in space? Taking advantage from the use of customised industrial items, we will have the possibility to create three-dimensional audio images controlled and designed in real time by the performers. The concept that interests us is the single percussive impulse as music creator. We can change surface, speed of execution but the impulse is at the core of every percussive action.

reConvert + Fabrizio di Salvo

reConvert will participate at the International Festival of Expanded Music (Montevideo/Uruguay). FIME seeks to found a radical and committed scene of the music in the present; a hacking music space in South America. This edition will occur at the three main opera/concert houses in Uruguay. Its main axes are the production of concerts, seminars and the creation of a collaborative network between Latin American music centers. The Festival will count on with the Swiss presence of reConvert playing K. Rosenberger & Fabrizio di Salvo.

Concerts:

(ex)tension, by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert.
Amoeba, by Fernando Manassero in collaboration with reConvert.

The Festival has been postponed to mid 2021.

reConvert comes back to Argentina to present two new projects at cheLA, where reConvert was born, and another venue tbc.

Concerts:

(ex)tensions, by Fabrizio di Salvo in collaboration with reConvert.
amoeba, by Fernando Manassero in collaboration with reConvert.

The concerts have been postponed to mid 2021.

The 11th Edition of Experimentalia Festival invites again to reConvert, in this occasion taking place in streaming.
We will present the extended version of AMOEBA a piece in collaboration with Argentinian composer Fernando Manassero, that we developed from 2018-20.
Previously to the concert, we will have a talk where we show our work together, the processes of the piece, etc.

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert: Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo, performance and AV co-creation
Fernando Manassero, composer
Ramiro Iturrioz, videos

reConvert will be present at the 2020 edition of the ATTACCA Festival organized by the Musik-Akademie Basel. Initially scheduled for May 2020 and postponed because of COVID19.

Program:

Luciano Azzigotti: microbeatlogic 1, for two amplified semi-spheres (2013)

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert project (Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo)
Fernando Manassero (composer)
Ramiro Iturrioz (videos)

reConvert will present a program in collaboration with Toolbox percussion that will include duo pieces as well as in collaboration with the Hong Kong ensemble.

Music by Andreas Eduardo Frank, Michael Pisaro and others.

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert project (Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo)
Fernando Manassero (composer)
Ramiro Iturrioz (videos)

reConvert will offer a Workshop at the Hong Kong Baptist University for the composition students by Prof. Camilo Méndez San Juan.

“Lecture About Myself” is a 30-minute audiovisual performative situation in which two musicians enter into a fictive dialogue with an artificial intelligence. The latter communicates via projected text and abstract video images. The former are seated at a table in front of the projection surface. With microphones, a vocoder, synthesizers and various controllers, they ‘speak’ a strange language that is only partly intelligible. Crucially, their vocal utterances are turned into control data that is used to feed various electronic sound and light processes. What results could be positioned somewhere between an uncanny conversation with an AI (parts of which are unintelligible) and a hallucinatory/phantasmagoric radio drama.

reConvert // Lorenzo Colombo and Roberto Maqueda

reConvert will be present at the Percussion PULSE 2020 in Copenhagen (Denmark) at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, presenting the new project covers.

“Lecture About Myself” is a 30-minute audiovisual performative situation in which two musicians enter into a fictive dialogue with an artificial intelligence. The latter communicates via projected text and abstract video images. The former are seated at a table in front of the projection surface. With microphones, a vocoder, synthesizers and various controllers, they ‘speak’ a strange language that is only partly intelligible. Crucially, their vocal utterances are turned into control data that is used to feed various electronic sound and light processes. What results could be positioned somewhere between an uncanny conversation with an AI (parts of which are unintelligible) and a hallucinatory/phantasmagoric radio drama.

reConvert // Lorenzo Colombo and Roberto Maqueda

“Lecture About Myself” is a 30-minute audiovisual performative situation in which two musicians enter into a fictive dialogue with an artificial intelligence. The latter communicates via projected text and abstract video images. The former are seated at a table in front of the projection surface. With microphones, a vocoder, synthesizers and various controllers, they ‘speak’ a strange language that is only partly intelligible. Crucially, their vocal utterances are turned into control data that is used to feed various electronic sound and light processes. What results could be positioned somewhere between an uncanny conversation with an AI (parts of which are unintelligible) and a hallucinatory/phantasmagoric radio drama.

reConvert // Lorenzo Colombo and Roberto Maqueda

“Lecture About Myself” is a 30-minute audiovisual performative situation in which two musicians enter into a fictive dialogue with an artificial intelligence. The latter communicates via projected text and abstract video images. The former are seated at a table in front of the projection surface. With microphones, a vocoder, synthesizers and various controllers, they ‘speak’ a strange language that is only partly intelligible. Crucially, their vocal utterances are turned into control data that is used to feed various electronic sound and light processes. What results could be positioned somewhere between an uncanny conversation with an AI (parts of which are unintelligible) and a hallucinatory/phantasmagoric radio drama.

reConvert // Lorenzo Colombo and Roberto Maqueda

“Lecture About Myself” is a 30-minute audiovisual performative situation in which two musicians enter into a fictive dialogue with an artificial intelligence. The latter communicates via projected text and abstract video images. The former are seated at a table in front of the projection surface. With microphones, a vocoder, synthesizers and various controllers, they ‘speak’ a strange language that is only partly intelligible. Crucially, their vocal utterances are turned into control data that is used to feed various electronic sound and light processes. What results could be positioned somewhere between an uncanny conversation with an AI (parts of which are unintelligible) and a hallucinatory/phantasmagoric radio drama.

reConvert // Lorenzo Colombo and Roberto Maqueda

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert project (Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo)
Fernando Manassero (composer)
Ramiro Iturrioz (videos)

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert project (Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo)
Fernando Manassero (composer)
Ramiro Iturrioz (videos)

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert project (Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo)
Fernando Manassero (composer)
Ramiro Iturrioz (videos)

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert project (Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo)
Fernando Manassero (composer)
Ramiro Iturrioz (videos)

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert project (Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo)
Fernando Manassero (composer)
Ramiro Iturrioz (videos)

Zeiträume Festival 2019
Basel, Switzerland

“Das grosse Konzert”
reConvert project & Kollektiv fuchs&flaneure

The percussion duo reConvert project and the collective fuchs&flaneure were commissioned by the Basel Biennale for New Music and Architecture ZeitRäume to carry out an audio walk through the St. Johann Quarter in Basel. The working title of the Audiowalk is “The Great Concert”. In it, about 20 participants, together with a sound artist and two percussionists, will trace the sounds and musicality of the quarter and the urban space. How does the city of Basel sound? How do the people who live there change and shape the sound of the neighbourhood?
An approximately one-hour radio play walk turns urban everyday sounds, pre-produced sounds and the musical interventions of the two percussionists into a grand concert.

Zeiträume Festival 2019
Basel, Switzerland

“Das grosse Konzert”
reConvert project & Kollektiv fuchs&flaneure

The percussion duo reConvert project and the collective fuchs&flaneure were commissioned by the Basel Biennale for New Music and Architecture ZeitRäume to carry out an audio walk through the St. Johann Quarter in Basel. The working title of the Audiowalk is “The Great Concert”. In it, about 20 participants, together with a sound artist and two percussionists, will trace the sounds and musicality of the quarter and the urban space. How does the city of Basel sound? How do the people who live there change and shape the sound of the neighbourhood?
An approximately one-hour radio play walk turns urban everyday sounds, pre-produced sounds and the musical interventions of the two percussionists into a grand concert.

Zeiträume Festival 2019
Basel, Switzerland

“Das grosse Konzert”
reConvert project & Kollektiv fuchs&flaneure

The percussion duo reConvert project and the collective fuchs&flaneure were commissioned by the Basel Biennale for New Music and Architecture ZeitRäume to carry out an audio walk through the St. Johann Quarter in Basel. The working title of the Audiowalk is “The Great Concert”. In it, about 20 participants, together with a sound artist and two percussionists, will trace the sounds and musicality of the quarter and the urban space. How does the city of Basel sound? How do the people who live there change and shape the sound of the neighbourhood?
An approximately one-hour radio play walk turns urban everyday sounds, pre-produced sounds and the musical interventions of the two percussionists into a grand concert.

Zeiträume Festival 2019
Basel, Switzerland

“Das grosse Konzert”
reConvert project & Kollektiv fuchs&flaneure

The percussion duo reConvert project and the collective fuchs&flaneure were commissioned by the Basel Biennale for New Music and Architecture ZeitRäume to carry out an audio walk through the St. Johann Quarter in Basel. The working title of the Audiowalk is “The Great Concert”. In it, about 20 participants, together with a sound artist and two percussionists, will trace the sounds and musicality of the quarter and the urban space. How does the city of Basel sound? How do the people who live there change and shape the sound of the neighbourhood?
An approximately one-hour radio play walk turns urban everyday sounds, pre-produced sounds and the musical interventions of the two percussionists into a grand concert.

Zeiträume Festival 2019
Basel, Switzerland

“Das grosse Konzert”
reConvert project & Kollektiv fuchs&flaneure

The percussion duo reConvert project and the collective fuchs&flaneure were commissioned by the Basel Biennale for New Music and Architecture ZeitRäume to carry out an audio walk through the St. Johann Quarter in Basel. The working title of the Audiowalk is “The Great Concert”. In it, about 20 participants, together with a sound artist and two percussionists, will trace the sounds and musicality of the quarter and the urban space. How does the city of Basel sound? How do the people who live there change and shape the sound of the neighbourhood?
An approximately one-hour radio play walk turns urban everyday sounds, pre-produced sounds and the musical interventions of the two percussionists into a grand concert.

Zeiträume Festival 2019
Basel, Switzerland

“Das grosse Konzert”
reConvert project & Kollektiv fuchs&flaneure

The percussion duo reConvert project and the collective fuchs&flaneure were commissioned by the Basel Biennale for New Music and Architecture ZeitRäume to carry out an audio walk through the St. Johann Quarter in Basel. The working title of the Audiowalk is “The Great Concert”. In it, about 20 participants, together with a sound artist and two percussionists, will trace the sounds and musicality of the quarter and the urban space. How does the city of Basel sound? How do the people who live there change and shape the sound of the neighbourhood?
An approximately one-hour radio play walk turns urban everyday sounds, pre-produced sounds and the musical interventions of the two percussionists into a grand concert.

“Lecture About Myself” is a 30-minute audiovisual performative situation in which two musicians enter into a fictive dialogue with an artificial intelligence. The latter communicates via projected text and abstract video images. The former are seated at a table in front of the projection surface. With microphones, a vocoder, synthesizers and various controllers, they ‘speak’ a strange language that is only partly intelligible. Crucially, their vocal utterances are turned into control data that is used to feed various electronic sound and light processes. What results could be positioned somewhere between an uncanny conversation with an AI (parts of which are unintelligible) and a hallucinatory/phantasmagoric radio drama.

reConvert // Lorenzo Colombo and Roberto Maqueda

Blurred Edges Festival 2019
MS Stubnitz
June 16th, 21h

reConvert feat Pedro González for the piece Phasing bug sequences*

*  Commission supported by INAEM (Spanish Cultural Minister) and project supported by Ayudas Injuve para la Creación Joven 2018/2019.

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert project (Roberto Maqueda and Lorenzo Colombo)
Fernando Manassero (composer)
Ramiro Iturrioz (videos)

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert project (Roberto Maqueda and Víctor Barceló)
Fernando Manassero (composer)
Ramiro Iturrioz (videos)

Amoeba is an ecosystem of independent sound stations and modules, partly operated, partly automatic. This work is about interaction, integration, attraction and repulsion. The room is darkened and the stations are gently lit so that the movements of the objects and the actions of the performers are visible. The stations are sound sources, some electromechanical, some electronic. They create sound structures and transmit them via small microphones and loudspeakers. The listeners may walk freely through the installation room.

reConvert project (Roberto Maqueda and Víctor Barceló)
Fernando Manassero (composer)
Ramiro Iturrioz (videos)