Audio Installation composed of 18x programmed solenoids from Miguel La Corte, 6x paintings from Pepe Lopez, 1x Palitero drum from luthier Armando Pantoja.
Exhibition uniting three artists from different disciplines to create an audiovisual installation referencing two traditional rhythms (Perra and Macizón) from the coastal town of Todasana.
The installation is based on a generative algorhythm made by musician Miguel La Corte, that dissects these two traditional rhythms, and depicts them -uniquely within each painting- in a de-generative fashion over 12 minutes cycles.
For over a decade, Pepe López has been documenting and painting drums crafted by Armando Pantoja for traditional festivals in the village of Todasana. The paintings here present are preliminary sketches for a group of Cumaco drums made from avocado wood, which were used in the San Juan celebration in 2011.
In 2024, artist Pepe López invited musician Miguel La Corte to intervene in his paintings. In turn, Miguel developed an acoustic algoryhthm present in the installation that generatively decomposes traditional rhythms from the coastal town of Todasana.
Through the mechanical possibilities of car solenoids, Ensemble scrutinizes two traditional rhythms from the coastal town of Todasana, and presents them in a de-generative fashion, effectively destructuring these over time lapses of 12 minutes in an attempt to expose the inherent precise codes that, through their marking, make us feel our time.
That is, beyond seeing rhythm as a musical condition, we can understand how our music—through its rhythmic foundations—defines and expresses our social conditions, allowing us to grasp our time through its culture.
Ensamble ran for a period of for 4 months from October 2024 to January 2025 within Carmen Araujo Art Gallery in Caracas.
Visits included spontaneous singing and dancing from visiting students as well as renowned RTF ensemble which specialize in traditional afro-venezuelan music.
Workshop focused in developing new methods of rhythm composition through personal music notation forms. Caracas, 13.11.2024.
A website/public repository was made as part of the workshop presentation; it served as a database for technological advances that signified an important re-conception of rhythm as a fundamental element of composition.
We had the privilege of hosting master drum luthier Armando Pantoja, who shared the artisanal process behind the creation of his Palitero drum (avocado-tree based) and later performed in accompaniment with Miguel La Corte and the audio installation.
From the initial sketches of drum paintings made by Pepe Lopez in his studio, the first plans of the rhythm system through solenoids emerge.
A series of 3D-printed parts were used to house the solenoid and convert it to a percussive instrument, based on a previous open source design. New design added a stronger wall mounting mechanism and simplified the percussive end of the solenoid.
6x circuit boards were built to pass MIDI data from microcontrollers to activate 18 car solenoids through CV.
For this project a circuit python script was created that generates a set of variations from the specific MIDI-version of La Perra y El Macizón rhythms that were recorded from master Armando Pantoja in Todasana.
Pictures present initial tests done with Ableton MIDI out directly.
Exhibition uniting three artists from different disciplines to create an audiovisual installation referencing two traditional rhythms (Perra and Macizón) from the coastal town of Todasana.
The installation is based on a generative algorhythm made by musician Miguel La Corte, that dissects these two traditional rhythms, and depicts them -uniquely within each painting- in a de-generative fashion over 12 minutes cycles.
Audio Installation composed of 18x programmed solenoids from Miguel La Corte, 6x paintings from Pepe Lopez, 1x Palitero drum from luthier Armando Pantoja.
For over a decade, Pepe López has been documenting and painting drums crafted by Armando Pantoja for traditional festivals in the village of Todasana. The paintings here present are preliminary sketches for a group of Cumaco drums made from avocado wood, which were used in the San Juan celebration in 2011. In 2024, artist Pepe López invited musician Miguel La...
Through the mechanical possibilities of car solenoids, Ensemble scrutinizes two traditional rhythms from the coastal town of Todasana, and presents them in a de-generative fashion , effectively destructuring these over time lapses of 12 minutes in an attempt to expose the inherent precise codes that, through their marking, make us feel our time. That is, beyond seeing rhythm as a...
Ensamble ran for a period of for 4 months from October 2024 to January 2025 within Carmen Araujo Art Gallery in Caracas.
Visits included spontaneous singing and dancing from visiting students as well as renowned RTF ensemble which specialize in traditional afro-venezuelan music.
Workshop focused in developing new methods of rhythm composition through personal music notation forms. Caracas, 13.11.2024.
A website/public repository was made as part of the workshop presentation; it served as a database for technological advances that signified an important re-conception of rhythm as a fundamental element of composition.
We had the privilege of hosting master drum luthier Armando Pantoja, who shared the artisanal process behind the creation of his Palitero drum (avocado-tree based) and later performed in accompaniment with Miguel La Corte and the audio installation.
From the initial sketches of drum paintings made by Pepe Lopez in his studio, the first plans of the rhythm system through solenoids emerge.
A series of 3D-printed parts were used to house the solenoid and convert it to a percussive instrument, based on a previous open source design. New design added a stronger wall mounting mechanism and simplified the percussive end of the solenoid.
6x circuit boards were built to pass MIDI data from microcontrollers to activate 18 car solenoids through CV.
For this project a circuit python script was created that generates a set of variations from the specific MIDI-version of La Perra y El Macizón rhythms that were recorded from master Armando Pantoja in Todasana.
Pictures present initial tests done with Ableton MIDI out directly.