Barcelona

Black Med listening session is a performance combining a video screening and a live mixing session by Invernomuto (Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi). The project explores the trajectories that sounds trace as they travel across the Mediterranean in sonic form. We inaugurate the IX chapter, produced for the Art Explora Málaga Festival, created in relation to the sounds of the southern Iberian Peninsula and their possible echoes in other parts of this sea. From the Cantigas de Santa Maria to Algerian raï, via Lole y Manuel or the urban phenomena of rappers such as Huda.

Stories from around the world that open our imagination and understanding, told by storyteller Marieta Sánchez. 

Dorita cannot imagine the adventure that awaits her today. Almost without realizing it, she finds herself in the land of Oz, a place ruled by witches, where money does not exist and all beings are treated equally. To return home, she must find the Witch of Oz by following a path of socks that will lead her to her. Will you join us on this adventure? 

Subacuática is a live sound performance created from recordings made by participants in the workshop “Submerged Sounds.” The workshop offers a listening and sound exploration experience designed for family audiences. Through a journey across different spaces near the sea, we experiment with underwater microphones to discover new sounds: underwater soundscapes. The piece combines melodic, rhythmic, and ambient moments to shape a constantly evolving sonic landscape. It is an invitation to pause, listen, and be carried away by the hidden textures of the underwater world, giving value and visibility to sounds recorded collectively.

Beirut Birds (طيور بيروت) is a sonic memory capsule honoring (inter)personal stories of migration, displacement, and the cyclical turbulent circumstances in Lebanon. Transforming her multi-year project, multidisciplinary artist and composer Nour Sokhon crystallizes the performance Beirut Birds (طيور بيروت) into her long-awaited debut album. When presented and performed live, it is accompanied by juxtaposed images of the Lebanese capital’s city life and avian migration across the Mediterranean Sea, representing themes strongly woven into the music.

A visual and sonic symphony that immerses us in the mysteries of the deep sea, while also becoming an ode to imagination and creation. Based on a film by the artist Rosa Tharrats aboard a ship on an expedition with the Schmidt Ocean Institute, the performance includes a soundtrack created in situ, in a process of dramatic and musical improvisation led by musician Mau Boada (Esperit!), singer Clara Enrich-Genestar, and poet Gabriel Ventura.

On this occasion, Ikram Bouloum reappropriates her technique as a selector to present "Grief and grievance: listening as learning", a listening session in which she traces a journey through different musical genres and sound archives, entering into dialogue with her referents and opening up space for new superpositions to address questions of poetic belonging.