L.E.V. FESTIVAL 2024: SILENT SOUND SESSIONS CON SCANNER Y SOPHIA LOIZOU EN EL JARDÍN BOTÁNICO ATLÁNTICO

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. All this, thanks to a close collaboration with Fundación EDP and in line with its values of sustainability and environmentally friendly integration.

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.

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.