ESPECTRA NEGRA
Solo live concert

17.December.2015

Event curated by Occulto Magazine in collaboration with The Hum.

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Occulto explores new possibilities in the popularisation of science in connection to other fields such as the visual arts, parascientific theories and history of ideas. It is edited, designed and published by Alice Cannava.

Occulto affirms the cultural value of scientific knowledge and the potential of an interdisciplinary approach opened to deviance and irony. Its research also questions past and present attempts to find shortcuts to knowledge (and power), the fascination towards the irrational and revealed truths.

What lies behind the insurmountable gap dividing humanities and science?

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SYNTHOPIA
International Compilation

Sound works focused on analogue synthesizers as main sonic source.
To be released in 2016.

Film Screening

13. Internationales Film Festival Hannover

Maniac 8.2.8 

Greece, 2015.

15 Min.

Directed by: Giorgos Efthimiou

Starring: Dimitra Aggelou / Giorgos Efthimiou / Antouanetta Tatsi / Stavroula Kontopoulou Director of Photography: Kostas Drakakis Music Composer: Verónica Mota Script: Georgara Aliki.

20.November @ Cinema Pavillion 21 p.m.

Hannover, Germany.

Live Recording by Frank Lohmeyer @ SPEKTRUM, Berlin.

Verónica Mota (Mexico) played some selected compositions produced in the last decade including "43 Human Bodies" released on Synthesis Vol. 1 by Urban Arts Berlin in 2014. She will did some improvisation with a MS 20 & a DOEPFER Dark Energy, both monophonic analogue synthesizers.

Listen to the whole concert here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbaS0OM5OPU

Live solo concert

SYNTHESIS PART I: Maria G. (Greece) + Verónica Mota (Mexico)

12.November @ SPEKTRUM Art and Technology

Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1701691863385192/

Synthesis is a serie of concerts curated by Urban Arts Berlin which brings together international composers who work professionally in the sonic field as musicians and sound artists.

The excellent project Synthesis includes two volume albums: Vol. 1 contains 45 tracks by international female composers from Vietnam, China, South Africa, Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Australia, Europe and the US.

Synthesis Vol. 2 is a mixed album with 31 musicians & sound artists from South Korea, Uruguay, Irland, Venezuela, Greece, Belgium, Brazil, Sweden, France, Poland, Mexico, Denmark, Israel, the UK, Colombia, Itally, Canada and the US.

Both albums were released on bandcamp in 2014 and 2015. Urban Arts Berlin is now working on the printing of selected works in vinyl format which will be out in the coming months and released in a big event taking place in 2016.

https://urbanartsberlin.bandcamp.com/album/synthesis-vol-1

https://urbanartsberlin.bandcamp.com/album/synthesis-vol-2

Since both volumes got a very solid resonance Urban Arts Berlin booked some of the best sound artists who are part of the compilations. This live concerts are particularly interesting because the audience attending will get the chance to experience the contemporary meaning of sound art & music by some of the most relevant composers & musicians alive working professionally in the sonic field. From electro-acoustics to the use of analogue synthesizers, tapes, digital synths, recorder & ableton live, to give some technical examples. All the selected sound artists work combining constituent elements of separate material or abstract elements into a single or unified sonic entity which can be defined as sonic SYNTHESIS.