_Ch -Ous
French-Swedish composer and sound artist Noémi Büchi comes to L.E.V. Festival to perform live her new album Does It Still Matter. The album offers a new type of avant-garde which is not based on creating something new, but on eschewing the stiffness of genres, to abolish and reconstruct the musical past.
Her pieces juxtapose multiple layers of analogue synthesizers, crystalline sounds and almost brutal noises, deploying compositional structures close to pop songs. Powered by an orchestra of countless elements, her music creates transcendent intonations which resonate in the deepest parts of our bodies.
Unpredictable electronic maximalism to immerse ourselves in the present and reflect on our linear perception of time.
_Dk [Pan]
Puce Mary is the solo moniker of Danish-born artist Frederikke Hoffmeier. With a long career in experimental electronic music, Puce Mary has a reputation for intense live performances that span from gripping renditions of cinematic composition to the full-on fury of off-the-cuff harsh noise.
Often identified with the now-generation of industrial noise, the project’s recent endeavours explore the field of sound more broadly than before, unfurling a complex sonic and literary narrative of tension and release, amidst disquieting dynamics and surreal cinematics.
_It
After his memorable performance at the last edition of L.E.V. Matadero in Madrid, Italian visual and multimedia artist, physicist and university professor Riccardo Giovinetto arrives at L.E.V. Festival in Gijón with an extended version of his audiovisual performance F E M I N A.
This project explores the idea of virtue and the gaze that defines it during the Renaissance through the imaginary journey of an artificial intelligence. In it, echoes of polyphonic madrigals are layered over the composition of the original electronic music, while samples of Renaissance paintings are transformed into a flow of images that constantly mutates, interacting with sound.
_Es [Lapsus]
Composer, percussionist and multidisciplinary artist RRUCCULLA, one of the most eclectic projects to emerge from Spain lately, will be at Muséu del Pueblu d’Asturies showcasing an exclusive set for L.E.V. around the songs in her latest album, Zeru Freq, plus unreleased musical and visual material she has been working on during the last months.
An exploration of artistic domains, expanding the universe created around her new work, materializing in a contemporary, experimental electronics audiovisual show composed by hyper realistic textures and abstract forms.
_Uk Alltagsmusik
To bring the 2024 festival to a close, L.E.V. Festival comes back to the Boreal Lagoon of the Atlantic Botanical Garden of Gijón, on Sunday 5 May, with a live matinee featuring two avant-garde electronic creators, Scanner and Sophia Loizou. An experience which may be enjoyed through wireless headphones, so that listeners will be able to move freely around the unique environment of this location, while reducing the environmental impact of the event.
Since 1991, Scanner, artistic alias of British artist Robin Rimbaud, has travelled around the world thanks to his wide range of soundscapes, which goes from minimal electronica to film melancholia. This live performance, entitled How to make art from life (with the help of a few ghosts), is an immersive and intimate exploration of sound, through binaural recordings which connect the listener to its environment. With no screens, this show invites us to live for the moment and embrace a sound adventure as poetic as evocative.
_De/Fr [Hyperdub, Unguarded]
The audiovisual project Aelcrush, a collaboration between Berlin-based artist and music producer Sin Maldita and French multimedia artist Lei, deals with topics such as escapism and emotional exhaustion, halfway between the turmoil of an audiovisual club and ravishing beauty.
Taking inspiration from both fantasy worlds and dire realities, Sin Maldita and lei aim not to present an apocalyptic vision, but one populated by seismic emotion and tumult, introspection and reflection, both sonically and visually.
A devastating and emotionally evocative work, which intertwines hybrid club music with experimental pop, generating an experiential whirlpool of worlds of sound in their live shows.
_Uk Houndstooth
To bring the 2024 festival to a close, L.E.V. Festival comes back to the Boreal Lagoon of the Atlantic Botanical Garden of Gijón, on Sunday 5 May, with a live matinee featuring two avant-garde electronic creators, Scanner and Sophia Loizou. An experience which may be enjoyed through wireless headphones, so that listeners will be able to move freely around the unique environment of this location, while reducing the environmental impact of the event.
Sophia Loizou, British musical producer, composer and audiovisual artist, works in the crossroads of contemporary music, speculative fiction and ecology. She will showcase Vesta, an immersive work about the hidden dimensions of sound. Using field and archive recordings of submerged, seismic and electromagnetic frequencies, Loizou puts the spotlight on sonic footprints and the spectral shadows inhabiting the limits of perception. This piece, featured in binaural format, creates an immersive sound experience which invites us to expand our listening practices beyond human limits.
_Es/Si
The project SYNSPECIES, formed by Elias Merino and Tadej Droljc, brings us the world premiere of Asbu, a fictional, symbolic audiovisual narrative about the genesis of SYNSPECIES universe.
Whereas their firsts works showed us the violent ecosystem of these audiovisual entities, Asbu takes us back in time and presents to us the creation of this unique world through a cosmogonic myth. This journey describes the beginning of all things, from the emergence of the void’s elementary forces, to the ritual of the universe’s shaping, and the birth of the first objects. It explores concepts and topics such as speculative fiction, the weird, superstitions, a particular view of cyberspace, the sublime, harsh realities of nature’s workings, Object Oriented Ontology, dream visions, and myths and folktales.
Concept: Synspecies
Music: Elias Merino
Visuals: Tadej Droljc
Co-produced by L.E.V. Festival, INDEX Biennale, WeSa Festival, SnaporazVerein, and NODE Festival in a collaboration with Basemental, this project is supported by the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA), a platform created by the European Festivals Association (EFA), co-funded by the European Union.
Technical partners: Projekt Atol Institute, Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory
