«Aresta is a sculptural sound installation, turning an ensemble of saxophones into autonomous entities. The music is generated by a computer using AI, played through the instruments and synchronized with LEDs placed inside their bodies. The performer interacts with the installation, questioning the need for a human body on stage and the potential obsolescence of its role.»

Aresta can be experienced both as an installation and a performance.

Credit

Commission: FUGA
Residency: Etopia Center for Arts and Technology

Idea, Construction, Sound/Light Composition, Software, Performance: Marc Vilanova

Curation: Santiago Latorre

Production: Eduardo Pérez

Metal Production and Design: 2monos

AI Technology:DeepBach, created by Gaëtan Hadjeres (Sony Computer Science Laboratories)

Software Support:Alfredo Ardia

Installation Support:Nieves Arilla, Mateu Targa

Saxophone Quartet (recording): María Luisa Cuenca, Maria Elisabet Serra, Josep Subirats, Raúl Cuartero

Special Thanks: Alberto Bernal, Equipo Etopia, Carlos Maria Romero, Adriana Dumon, Kandis Friesen, Igi Ayedun, Mar Medinyà, Irene Anglada, Joan Albert Gisbert, Familia Vilanova Pinyol

Support: Konvent.0

Video Director: Carles Pons

Director of Photography:Fran Ríos

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“Aresta” (edge) proposes to eliminate human presence of musical performance. An ensemble of saxophones becomes the interpreter and an autonomous instrument. Eight hanging saxophones of pyramidal metallic structures and a series of loudspeakers arranged inside the tubes act are the sound source, and the instrument, as a resonator body that amplifies and filters the sound, accommodates more than a hundred LED’s creating a great choreography that moves in perfect synchrony with sound.

TypeCollab w/ Dimensions7m x 4,5m x 3m.Year2018CreditsAna Benet

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