Black Med Chapter IX

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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.

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Black Med is a sound platform initiated by Invernomuto in 2018. The Mediterranean Sea, once understood as a fluid entity that facilitated the formation of networks and exchanges, is now the stage of a humanitarian crisis and a heated geopolitical dispute. Black Med aims to intercept the trajectories that sounds trace as they pass through this protean area, while migratory routes leave sonic traces that, in the words of Iain Chambers, “resist representation and propose an affective economy [that is] intrinsically diasporic.”

At the core of the project is an algorithm capable of playing with tracks and transmitting an infinite stream. The archive is composed of music and sounds selected by Invernomuto and a network of collaborators who were invited at different stages since the project’s inception. In addition, the system is open and anyone can upload new sounds: the goal is to maintain a growing archive, a Black Med magma, constantly evolving.

Each chapter consists of a listening session with texts and live DJing. The performance in Barcelona will present Chapter IX, produced specifically for the Art Explora Festival in Málaga, in relation to the hybrid and complex sounds of the Andalusian region and their possible echoes in other parts of the Mediterranean—from the medieval Cantigas de Santa Maria to Algerian raï, via Lole y Manuel and the contemporary urban scene of the rapper Huda.

With research support from Sono Mayrit and Disco Atlas.

Courtesy of the artists and Pinksummer Genova

Simone Bertuzzi & Simone Trabucchi

Invernomuto

Invernomuto is an artistic duo formed by Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi in 2003. Their artistic practice encompasses moving image, sound, and performance, exploring themes such as colonization and identity. They have exhibited at prestigious institutions including Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou, and the Venice Biennale. Their rhizomatic projects intertwine diverse disciplines and contexts, generating a complex and multidimensional body of work.

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Moll de Barcelona, Port Vell (Port of Barcelona). Scene. 

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Saturday, April 5, 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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Immersive exhibition Presents

Created with the exceptional collaboration of the Musée du Louvre, this exhibition highlights female figures in Mediterranean civilisation, thanks to the digitisation and modeling of part of the Louvre's collections. A two-stage experience: an introductory film to provide context, followed by an immersive experience in a 16-meter-long tunnel covered by 120 m2 of LED screens.

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A sound journey through the Mediterranean

An immersive sound experience designed by Ircam, inviting the public to explore the richness and diversity of the Mediterranean through headphones equipped with spatialized sound.

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