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Institut FATIMA, Roland Olbeter, Yuri Suzuki, Dani García Rodríguez, Iván Hernández Gutiérrez & Miguel Ferreiro Novoa, Alex Posada, Carles F. Julià, Electronic Performers, Roger Pujol, Pablo Molina, Frederic Font & Francisco García, Jay Barros, Julio Lucio, Lluis Gómez i Bigordà / Nico Baixas, microBCN, Ruin & Wesen, Sebastián Gonzalez / Javier Chávarri, Telenoika.net, IED - VV.AA., Sergi Jordà, Günter Geiger, Marcos Alonso & Martin Kaltenbrunner...
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Javier Chávarri studied computer engineering, as well as the piano and sol-fa. He has been member of several music groups and is currently preparing his degree project for the Master's Degree in Digital Arts at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His research focuses on the search for creativity and musical expressiveness by means of technology, and on the reinterpretation of software as an artistic tool. He aims to continue working with new media, in search of their more expressive, lively and didactic side.
C. Sebastián Gonzalez-Dixon is an electronic engineer. He uses the SETian Works project to create technological tools for art, and investigates audio and video signal processing as a means for interaction between the body and information. He was a full professor in technology for dramatic art at the Javeriana University (Colombia) between 2007 and 2008, and a member of dance and theatre groups since 2002. This combination of disciplines has led him to study signals and waves in the movement of the body.
"We Are Waves" is an interactive installation which invites the participant to explore the qualities of sound based on the body’s movement and forms. In other words, it is a space for considering the concept of timbre as a specific quality of sound waves, using the interface that human beings are most familiar with: their own body. Using a camera, "WeAreWaves" takes the points making up the silhouette of the bodies in the image and converts them into sound. A wave consisting of hundreds of particles is created. These are projected onto a screen and create the image. The wave seen and the wave heard are therefore the same, and both are the same as the silhouette of the user or users. Questions quickly arise, such as what if there are two of us? Or five of us? And what about if we are holding an umbrella? Only the experience and curiosity of those taking part provide answers. The space provides the flexibility needed to compose shapes of waves between several people and even to include objects. "WeAreWaves" allows viewers to experiment with the feeling of seeing and listening to themselves, and to stop for a moment to reflect on a universe in which everything and all of us are waves.
Project location: CCCB - Floor -1