[Day 13 and 14 – SOLD OUT]
The “grillos” workshop is a two-day program that introduces participants to the fundamentals of electronics and circuit design, guiding them in the construction of a portable analog synthesizer. This instrument responds to ambient light conditions and bodily interactions through built-in light sensors.
In addition to providing basic technical skills, the workshop proposes an interdisciplinary approach that bridges electronics, sound, and performance. Merche Blasco, a multimedia artist and composer who designs “imprecise” devices to catalyze embodied forms of electroacoustic composition, develops these workshops as a way to explore new modes of listening and collaboration.
Workshop duration: 13th and 14th October from 3pm to 6pm. Participation is limited to 10 people, aged 18 and over, from any field of study or practice.
Registrations: lisboasoa@gmail.com
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Merche Blasco is a multimedia artist and composer who splits her time between Barcelona and Berlin.
Merche designs and builds imprecise technological assemblages that catalyze embodied forms of live electroacoustic composition and new modes of listening. Through her constructed devices, Merche attempts to establish a more horizontal relationship with other entities, distancing herself from parameters of precision, power, and control. As an alternative form of performance, she engineers collaborative spaces with instruments that are given their own agency, in compositions where her body and the live exploration of organic materials are central elements. Her work also increasingly focuses on designing participatory sound performances in public spaces to connect strangers and their surroundings through collective music-making and listening.
Merche has presented her performances and installations at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Shed, REWIRE, MaerzMusik, Ars Electronica, CTM Festival, SONAR Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, NIME conferences, Tsonami International Sound Art Festival in Chile, The High Line in New York, SONIC Festival, Mapping Festival (Geneva), Queens Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile, among others. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, El Pais Semanal, and The Wire magazine.
She was a DAAD Music & Sound Fellow in 2022-2023 and has earned a PhD in composition from New York University with her dissertation “IN power/ OUT of Control – Listening to the Margins.”
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With the support from the Embassy of Spain in Portugal
