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

  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)

(ex)tensions, 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

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)

“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)

“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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Concert at Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik
OPEN SPACE

(Date and time: TBD)

Program:

reC_TECH
Ritual I :: Commitment :: BiiM (2011), Jessie Marino (1984)
for snare, lights and tape

Hello (2014), Alexander Schubert (1979)
for two performers, electronics and video

4c0st1ctr1g3r (2015), Kaj Duncan David (1988)
for MIDI percussion pad, 909 Clap and 808 Kick samples, lights/shadows

Tabletalk (2016), Andreas E. Frank (1987)
for two performers, electronics and video

Lazer Hook (2016-17), Niklas Ottander (1981)
for one performer and electronics

oOo (2016), Jorge Sánchez-Chiong (1969)
for vibraphone, electronics and effect pedals

reConvert + Escudero
Alcázar de San Juan, Spain

We replicated our second concert in Madrid, within our very first concert’s season reConvert_NEXO, which this time will feature the multi-performance composer Óscar Escudero, in his hometown Alcázar de San Juan.

Program:

Gonzalo Díaz-Yerro (1977) New piece [2017-18]

Óscar Escudero (1992) The Audition 1.0 [2017]

Simon Steen-Andersen (1976) Difficulties putting it into practice [2007]

Alexander Schubert (1979) Laplace Tiger [2009]

Andreas Frank (1987) Table Talk [2016]

Óscar Escudero (1992) Custom#1 [2016]

reConvert_NEXO [First reConvert concert’s series]
Madrid, Spain

For the second concert of our reC_NEXO we invite the multi performance composer Óscar Escudero to feat reConvert and create a concert full of sound and image.

Program:

Gonzalo Díaz-Yerro (1977) New piece [2017-18]

Óscar Escudero (1992) The Audition 1.0 [2017]

Simon Steen-Andersen (1976) Difficulties putting it into practice [2007]

Alexander Schubert (1979) Laplace Tiger [2009]

Andreas Frank (1987) Table Talk [2016]

Óscar Escudero (1992) Custom#1 [2016]

reConvert_NEXO [First reConvert concert’s season]
Madrid, Spain

For our first concert we invite the composer Alberto Bernal to join us playing some of his pieces as well some other pieces that he finds related to his music.

Program:

Teaching Hsieh (1950) One Year Performance [1980-81]

Alvin Lucier (1931) Silverstreetcar for an orchestra [1988]

Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) Roll Meditation [1973]

Alvin Lucier (1931) Music on a Long Thin Wire [1977]

Johannes Kreidler (1980) Diving [2014]

Alberto Bernal (1978) 300Kg of music [2016]

Tokyo Arts and Space
Tokyo, Japan

reConvert will travel to Asia for its first time playing some concerts at Tokyo Arts and Space.

Program:

Jessie Marino (1984) Ritual I :: Commitment :: BiiM+ (2011)
Alexander Schubert (1979) Hello+ (2014)
Niklas Ottander (1981) Lazer Hook* (2016)
Andreas Frank (1987) Tischgespräch* (2016)
Víctor L. Jr. Barceló (1991) Crayons* (2017)
Jorge Sánchez-Chiong (1969) oOo* (2016)

*Premiere in Japan