Performance by Àlex Reviriego and Joke Lanz-Ute Wassermann
Mixed platters is a series of four thematic sessions based on concepts linked to Listening with Your Hands temporary exhibition, which invite us to rethink the value of the analog object in the current paradigm of the digital environment.
Experimenting with analogue media and using them as tools to make music has begun to be a practice, initially a minority one, which over the years has spread due to the musical and political potential of desacralizing printed sound for other purposes. In the hands of a turntablist, vinyl projects a new scenario of possibilities: it regenerates music, desacralizes it, disorganizes and de-hierarchizes it, makes it more random and infinite. A series of labels and concepts that avoid the strictly musical field and open our minds to visualize new horizons and new ways of listening, classifying and perhaps, making ourselves more responsible and freer. Content becomes raw material.
The session includes a guided tour to the exhibition by its curator, Ferran Fages.
Àlex Reviriego proposes Cheek to cheek (slow/even slower): an interpretation of the original standard at 78 RPM performing it with the double bass at a slower speed, acting as a turntable at 45 RPM and 33 RPM.
Joke Lanz-Ute Wassermann continue exploring a cathartic and Dadaist proposal where record players are impregnated with physicality and human emotion in contrast with a voice that seems to reproduce sounds of birds, machines, electronics or even fragments of an otherworldly language.
Artists
Àlex Reviriego (Barcelona, 1986) is a double bassist by training and electronic musician by vocation. Great listener and vinyl collector. A researcher of his instrument, he stands out for his great mastery of extended techniques and the timbral exploitation he makes from the idea of matter and radical fidelity (taken to the extreme) to a limited object.
Ute Wassermann (Germany, 1960) has studied visual arts and singing. Over the years, he has developed an ever-growing catalog of multifaceted vocal expressions that have inspired improvisers and composers around the world. His methods of extending and subverting the voice include the use of bird whistles, low-fidelity electronics, resonators, field recordings, and different types of microphones.
Joke Lanz (Switzerland, 1965) is a pioneer of the independent electronic scene. His work covers improvised and experimental music, noise, performance and musique concrete. One of the most deeply rooted disciplines within his extensive catalog is the work with turntables and vinyl with which he has more than twenty-five years of experience. He is one of the undisputed references of the world turntablism scene.