[ { "slug": "amber-diptych", "title": "Amber Diptych", "year": "2017", "type": "Public Space", "summary": "Audio-architectural generative installation embedded into the glass structure of Great Amber, Liepāja — permanent public space sonic acupuncture.", "thumb": "https://img.youtube.com/vi/8OPXK3fDsKk/maxresdefault.jpg", "hero_media": "https://youtu.be/8OPXK3fDsKk", "poetic": "\"Everything in the world has its own spirit, which can be released by setting it into vibration.\" — Oskar Fischinger", "description": "Amber Diptych is an audio-architectural generative installation that relies on Sonic Acupuncture strategies specifically designed for the Liepāja concert hall Lielais Dzintars (Great Amber). The installation embeds itself in the building's glass structure — making the building itself the instrument, used as an active and passive sonic object simultaneously. Just as arthropods are embedded in amber, the installation is embedded in the glass, and the work in turn embeds stories: visitors project and reflect their own experiences, making cultural and personal references triggered by the sounds present in the space.\n\nAs its title indicates, the work is a diptych that sounds across two distinct areas of Great Amber's public space — the eastern wing of the building and the northern lounge next to the panoramic lifts. The two parts are different and complementary. Each generates a sonic weather tailored to its area, while resonating symbolically across the whole building and, hopefully, in the cultural life of the city.", "tech": "Public Space Sonic Acupuncture applied to key architectural nodes; site-specific generative system diffused through the glass façade. Two complementary sonic 'weather' zones forming a diptych across the public areas.", "location": "Great Amber, Liepāja (LV)", "media": "Permanent generative installation", "duration": "Ongoing / permanent", "roles": ["Concept", "Composition", "System design"], "exhibitions": [ {"when": "3–6 August 2017", "where": "Inauguration — Liepāja Art Forum, Great Amber, Latvia"}, {"when": "Since 2017", "where": "Permanent installation at Great Amber, Liepāja"} ], "links": [ {"label": "Amber Diptych — Part I (documentation)", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OLsjtUkmZw"}, {"label": "Amber Diptych — Part II (documentation)", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGBFofgBt_M"} ], "citations": [ {"label": "Ozoliņš, D. (2018). Understanding Amber Diptych: revealing the genius loci of The Great Amber's public space through ten attributes. Master's Thesis, Department of Music & Technology, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, Helsinki."} ], "supporters": [ {"name": "Great Amber / Lielais Dzintars", "url": "https://lielaisdzintars.lv/en"}, {"name": "Liepāja Art Forum"} ] }, { "slug": "tunnel-piece", "title": "Tunnel Piece", "year": "2020–2021", "type": "Public Space", "summary": "Helsinki Central Station's pedestrian underpass tuned into a resonant instrument played by urban life and the trains overhead — for the three darkest months.", "thumb": "assets/img/tunnel.jpg", "hero_media": "https://youtu.be/v_DJpYK69wo", "poetic": "The tunnel as a large, breathing organism — echoing the life above.", "description": "\"Helsinki's Central railway station's pedestrian tunnel transforms into an instrument to be played by urban life and the trains passing overhead.\"\n\nThe pedestrian tunnel underneath Helsinki's Central railway station, connecting Kaisaniemi Park with Elielinaukio Square, became a large-scale resonant instrument. The tunnel was rendered in warm light and inhabited by an animate, permutable sonic atmosphere accompanying the daily life of commuters and passers-by during the three darkest months of the year. The installation ran for three months, starting on November 2nd 2020.\n\nListening to the rhythms generated at the train platforms, the tunnel followed them as if it were a large, breathing organism — echoing the life above and intensifying the urban experience within it. The more active the society, the more dynamic the sonic activity in the tunnel.\n\nSound is a powerful tool in creating a 'sense of place', giving it an atmospheric 'tint'. Our spaces are accompanied, coloured, and impregnated by sound. I believe that applying 'sonic pressure' to key points in public spaces is a compelling strategy to challenge the habits and behavioural patterns already formed in the space, stimulate new engagement with the site, and cultivate more conscious urban dwelling. Adding this new layer to the tunnel modified its conditions, and the existing perception of the space changed.\n\nUrban sounds reflected the return to normal. The pandemic and the restrictions it imposed made commuting and other city rhythms sparser. This project was created in the hope of becoming a beacon signalling the return of everyday urban life. Many artistic factors contributed to the decision to use this particular tunnel as the site for this project. I engaged in a long process to feel the tunnel's rhythms and its behaviour. To me, the tunnel revealed itself as a mirror of the city's activities and society's activities. This was very noticeable during lockdown and post-summer back to activity.\n\nI have been circulating through this space for years, and as an urban dweller I can contribute my vision to the perception of this space — and my vision of Helsinki as an experience-based city.\n\nThe installation ran for three months, from November 2nd 2020 to February 2nd 2021, open daily from 06:00 to 21:00.", "tech": "Urban sonic acupuncture; warm breath-like pulsing light rendering the tunnel surface. Permanent generative composition responding in real time to urban activity.", "location": "Helsinki (FI) — Ratapihan alikäytävä, Helsinki Central Railway Station", "media": "Urban Sonic Acupuncture", "duration": "2 November 2020 – 2 February 2021 (open daily 06:00–21:00)", "roles": ["Concept", "Composition", "System design"], "collaborators": [ "Jon-Patrik Kuhlefelt (sound engineer & technical director)", "Ainu Palmu (lighting design)", "Barbara Vanic (producer; copy, graphical identity, website, promotional materials)", "Anna Huskonen (producer)", "Caroliina Pirkkanen (communications)", "Alina Pajula (production assistant)", "Ben Onyedikachi (production assistant)" ], "exhibitions": [ {"when": "2 November 2020 – 2 February 2021", "where": "Helsinki Central Railway Station pedestrian underpass (Ratapihan alikäytävä), connecting Kaisaniemi Park with Elielinaukio Square"} ], "links": [ {"label": "Tunnel Piece — second video documentation", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCB9CmToP9g"}, {"label": "Original Tunnel Piece website (Wayback Machine)", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201102072512/https://www.tunnelpiece.com/"}, {"label": "Project Instagram", "url": "https://www.instagram.com/tunnelpiecehelsinki/"} ], "citations": [ {"label": "Moreno, J. (2022). Urban Sonic Acupuncture: Aural strategies for the city space. Doctoral dissertation, Sibelius Academy / DocMus, Uniarts Helsinki — Tunnel Piece is the third of four artistic components.", "url": "https://taju.uniarts.fi/handle/10024/7633"} ], "supporters": [ {"name": "City of Helsinki", "url": "https://www.hel.fi/en"}, {"name": "Uniarts Helsinki / Sibelius Academy", "url": "https://www.uniarts.fi/en/"}, {"name": "MuTri Doctoral School", "url": "https://www.uniarts.fi/en/research/doctoral-education/"}, {"name": "Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)", "url": "https://www.taike.fi/en"}, {"name": "Niilo Helander Foundation", "url": "https://www.niilohelander.net/"} ] }, { "slug": "vusaa", "title": "VUSAA", "year": "2017–2019", "type": "Research", "summary": "Virtual Urban Sonic Acupuncture App — an artistic invitation to listen to the city with different ears.", "thumb": "assets/img/vusaalogo.png", "hero_media": "https://youtu.be/OHfd3r0c6NY?feature=shared", "poetic": "An invitation to re-engage with the city by listening with different ears.", "description": "Our cities are decaying. We circulate as fast as possible through public spaces, or we inhabit them in a consumerist way. The urban dweller feels little engagement with their environment. The normalisation of what we could call 'the headphone city' — in which people create their own soundtrack for urban space — is contributing to new forms of urban detachment and isolation.\n\nThe Virtual Urban Sonic Acupuncture App (VUSAA) is an artistic invitation to listen to the city with different ears, and to feel how a subtle sonic intervention can drive attention to urban areas and hidden corners, fostering more conscious urban dwelling and social dialogue.\n\nAcupuncture can be defined as a local action — a pressure point on a key spot — with the power to change a situation globally, beyond the local area in which the pressure is applied. Sonic acupuncture relies on applying sonic pressure points on key spots, affecting the global sonic situation. Urban Sonic Acupuncture parallels the practice of Urban and Public Space Acupuncture in the field of aural architecture.\n\nVUSAA creates a virtual urban sonic acupuncture intervention in public space by sensing elements existing in the place the user is in. A generative system is set in motion, generating a sonic acupuncture specific to the given conditions: the microphone listens to the environment, the camera senses luminance, and the clock and GPS data inform what the user hears at every moment.\n\nThe app is privacy-respecting by design: audio data accessed by VUSAA remains private and local. Sounds are stored on the device only while the app is running; camera data is never accessed or stored on any server. Location data is sent only to sunrise-sunset.org to determine daylight status — the same information you would disclose by visiting that site in a web browser.\n\nNote: VUSAA is currently between versions. The original iOS release has been delisted from the App Store while a new version is in development.", "tech": "iOS application; generative engine built in Kronos using microphone input, camera luminance, GPS coordinates, and time of day. Privacy-respecting local processing. Built on the Urban Sonic Acupuncture research framework.", "location": "International", "media": "Mobile app / research", "duration": "Ongoing (between versions)", "roles": ["Concept", "Composition", "Algorithm design"], "collaborators": ["Vesa Norilo (Kronos implementation)"], "exhibitions": [ {"when": "16 June 2017", "where": "Research Pavilion, Venice — presentation, guided walk, discussion"}, {"when": "12 April 2018", "where": "Tampere Biennale, Finland — presentation, guided walk, discussion"}, {"when": "18 April 2018", "where": "Tampere Biennale, Finland — guided walk and discussion"} ], "citations": [ {"label": "Moreno, J. & Norilo, V. (2019). VUSAA: An Augmented Reality Mobile App for Urban Soundwalks. Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) 2019.", "url": "https://www.academia.edu/39725753/VUSAA_AN_AUGMENTED_REALITY_MOBILE_APP_FOR_URBAN_SOUNDWALKS"}, {"label": "Moreno, J. (2022). Urban Sonic Acupuncture: Aural strategies for the city space. Doctoral dissertation, Sibelius Academy / DocMus, Uniarts Helsinki.", "url": "https://taju.uniarts.fi/handle/10024/7633"} ], "supporters": [ {"name": "University of the Arts / Sibelius Academy / Music Technology Department", "url": "https://www.uniarts.fi/en/"}, {"name": "MuTri Doctoral School", "url": "https://www.uniarts.fi/en/research/doctoral-education/"}, {"name": "Kone Foundation", "url": "https://koneensaatio.fi/en/"}, {"name": "Niilo Helander Foundation", "url": "https://www.niilohelander.net/"} ] }, { "slug": "in-audito", "type": "Concert Hall", "title": "IN-AUDITO", "year": "2012", "summary": "For bass clarinet and live electronics — written for Ángel Molinos.", "thumb": "assets/img/inaudito.jpg", "hero_media": "https://youtu.be/kSvzXrqEgeM?feature=shared", "poetic": "\"As a composer, the bass clarinet seems to me like an opportunity — due to its acoustic principles that configure its particular timbre and behaviour — of immersing myself into its sound qualities and being able to present to the listener the results of my approach to such articulated immersion, letting my ideas resonate within the air column.\" — Josué Moreno (14.10.2012)", "description": "IN-AUDITO (2012) is a piece for bass clarinet and live electronics, written specifically for and in collaboration with Ángel Molinos.", "tech": "Bass clarinet and multichannel live electronics", "duration": "17–27′", "roles": ["Composer"], "collaborators": ["Ángel Molinos (bass clarinet)"], "exhibitions": [ {"when": "December 2012", "where": "Helsinki Music Centre — Camerata Hall (premiere). Ángel Molinos."}, {"when": "July 2015", "where": "ClarinetFest — Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid. Ángel Molinos."}, {"when": "April 2016", "where": "Helsinki Music Centre — Black Box, MuTri Research Days. Ángel Molinos."}, {"when": "November 2023", "where": "Helsinki Music Centre — Camerata Hall. Ángel Molinos doctoral defense."}, {"when": "Forthcoming", "where": "Dolby Atmos studio recording — album release."} ], "release": { "album": "Score", "publisher": "Music Finland", "year": "", "format": "Score available through Music Finland", "url": "https://core.musicfinland.fi/composers/josue-moreno" }, "citations": [ {"label": "Molinos, Á. (2023). IN-AUDITO: an overview on Finnish bass clarinet music through a performer's analysis of five personal commissions. Sibelius Academy / DocMus, EST publication series no. 77.", "url": "https://taju.uniarts.fi/handle/10024/7962"} ], "supporters": [ {"name": "Uniarts Helsinki", "url": "https://www.uniarts.fi/en/"}, {"name": "DocMus Doctoral School, Sibelius Academy"}, {"name": "Sibelius Academy Foundation"} ] }, { "slug": "process-of-becoming", "title": "The Process of Becoming", "year": "2018", "type": "Public Space", "summary": "Live concert promenade for bass clarinet, choir and generative sound installation at Design Museum Helsinki — for the Timo Sarpaneva exhibition during Helsinki Design Week 2018.", "thumb": "assets/img/becoming.jpeg", "hero_media": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DAciLOnvxI", "poetic": "Each room a musical mood; each object a resonant body. Installing atmosphere.", "description": "The Process of Becoming is a six-month generative sound installation and a live concert promenade for bass clarinet, choir, and electronics, created for the exhibition Timo Sarpaneva at the Design Museum Helsinki (March–September 2018). The live concert took place during Helsinki Design Week, 15 September 2018.", "tech": "Promenade-format concert for bass clarinet, choir, and live electronics; generative sound installation distributed across the museum's rooms; site-responsive composition echoing the resonant properties of the Sarpaneva glassworks on display.", "location": "Helsinki (FI)", "media": "Performance + installation", "duration": "23 March – 23 September 2018 (installation); concert on 15 September 2018", "roles": ["Composer", "Concept", "System design"], "collaborators": [ "Ángel Molinos Bosque (bass clarinet)", "Global Music Choir", "Merzi Rajala (conductor)", "Dāvis Ozoliņš (electronics)", "Kati Åberg (producer)" ], "exhibitions": [ {"when": "23 March – 23 September 2018", "where": "Design Museum Helsinki — generative sound installation, running for the duration of the Timo Sarpaneva exhibition"}, {"when": "15 September 2018, 13:00 and 15:00", "where": "Design Museum Helsinki — Helsinki Design Week 2018 (live concert promenade, two performances)"} ], "links": [ {"label": "Installation video documentation", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDjLEhUabnA"} ], "supporters": [ {"name": "Design Museum Helsinki", "url": "https://www.designmuseum.fi/en/"}, {"name": "Centre for Music & Technology, Sibelius Academy", "url": "https://www.uniarts.fi/en/sibelius-academy/"}, {"name": "MuTri Doctoral School", "url": "https://www.uniarts.fi/en/research/doctoral-education/"}, {"name": "DocMus Doctoral School"}, {"name": "Kone Foundation", "url": "https://koneensaatio.fi/en/"}, {"name": "Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)", "url": "https://www.taike.fi/en"}, {"name": "Sibelius Academy Foundation"}, {"name": "GLOMAS"}, {"name": "DAMY ry"} ] }, { "slug": "walk-slowly-drift-listen", "title": "walk slowly, drift, listen", "year": "2021", "type": "Radio", "summary": "Radiophonic piece about sensorial engagement with surroundings — guided perceptual exercises accompanied by aural weather, in five languages.", "thumb": "assets/img/walkslowlyPNGcropped.jpg", "hero_media": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2MDDC1cXI", "poetic": "Audio as a tool for placemaking, sensorial and biographic wandering — independent of where the listener is.", "description": "walk slowly, drift, listen is a radiophonic piece about sensorial engagement with the listener's surroundings. The project explores different forms of being present, using audio as a tool for placemaking, sensorial, and biographic wandering — independent of the place or situation the listener is at.\n\nThe project is organised as a series of short perceptual exercises guided by a voiceover accompanied by aural weather — sonic atmospheres — specially tailored to transform and help to focus on the aspects each chapter explores. It can be listened to continuously or in fragments.\n\nI have been exploring the concept and practice of Public Space Sonic Acupuncture, which deals with how minute sonic pressure points can affect our perception of our everyday spaces. The radiophonic format allowed me to implement these findings in a way that can help the listener get into a sensorial experience regardless of where they are or what they are doing. At the same time, this format allowed me to express my personal opinions about sound and urban dwelling.\n\nGiven the particular circumstances we were living through during its making, I felt that addressing the listener directly — and giving them the opportunity of experiencing a special moment to expand their everyday life — was a crucial initiative. I am thrilled to use this chance to connect with listeners and to let them know that people care about them, that we more than ever want to connect with each other in as many ways as we can.\n\nwalk slowly, drift, listen is the fourth and final artistic component of my doctoral degree at the Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki. The piece was commissioned by Yle (Finnish Broadcasting Company) and is available in five languages: Finnish, Swedish, English, Russian, and Spanish.\n\nTo my dear Ana, the person who has been teaching me for the last decade what a wonder life can be.", "tech": "Radiophonic composition with multilingual voiceover and aural-weather atmospheres specially composed for each chapter. Recorded, mixed, and mastered at the Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki.", "location": "Online / international", "media": "Radiophonic piece", "duration": "43′ total · 9 sections of ~5′ each · listen continuously or in fragments", "roles": ["Concept", "Composition", "Script", "Direction"], "movements": [ {"title": "Intro", "timestamp": "00:00", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2MDDC1cXI"}, {"title": "Arrival", "timestamp": "03:00", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2MDDC1cXI&t=180s"}, {"title": "Atmosphere", "timestamp": "08:00", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2MDDC1cXI&t=480s"}, {"title": "Internal", "timestamp": "13:00", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2MDDC1cXI&t=780s"}, {"title": "Far away, high up", "timestamp": "18:00", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2MDDC1cXI&t=1080s"}, {"title": "Floor level", "timestamp": "23:00", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2MDDC1cXI&t=1380s"}, {"title": "Colors, textures, materials", "timestamp": "28:00", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2MDDC1cXI&t=1680s"}, {"title": "Speed, movement", "timestamp": "33:00", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2MDDC1cXI&t=1980s"}, {"title": "Play, closure", "timestamp": "38:00", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2MDDC1cXI&t=2280s"} ], "collaborators": [ "Charlotta Hagfors (Finnish translation; voice in English and Finnish)", "Kristian Thulesius (Swedish translation and voice)", "Anna Taeva (Russian translation)", "Elena Spirina (Russian voice)", "Ana Parra (Spanish voice)", "Kati Åberg (English-language advice)", "Soila Valkama (producer — Yle Radioteatteri)" ], "exhibitions": [ {"when": "2021", "where": "Yle Areena (broadcast and online release)"} ], "listen": { "label": "Listen on Yle Areena (Finnish)", "url": "https://areena.yle.fi/1-50799656", "note": "Available in five language versions. Yle Areena requires a Finnish connection — use a VPN if listening from outside Finland." }, "links": [ {"label": "Yle Areena — English version", "url": "https://areena.yle.fi/1-50837889"}, {"label": "Yle Areena — Swedish version", "url": "https://arenan.yle.fi/1-50837827"}, {"label": "Yle Areena — Russian version", "url": "https://areena.yle.fi/1-50837888"}, {"label": "Yle Areena — Spanish version", "url": "https://arenan.yle.fi/1-50837916"} ], "citations": [ {"label": "Moreno, J. (2022). Urban Sonic Acupuncture: Aural strategies for the city space. Doctoral dissertation, Sibelius Academy / DocMus, Uniarts Helsinki — walk slowly, drift, listen is the fourth artistic component.", "url": "https://taju.uniarts.fi/handle/10024/7633"} ], "supporters": [ {"name": "Yle (Finnish Broadcasting Company)", "url": "https://yle.fi"}, {"name": "Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki", "url": "https://www.uniarts.fi/en/"}, {"name": "Sibelius Academy Foundation"}, {"name": "MuTri Doctoral School", "url": "https://www.uniarts.fi/en/research/doctoral-education/"} ] }, { "slug": "defunhap", "title": "defun(HaP)", "year": "2012", "type": "Concert Hall", "summary": "Closing piece of the HaP cycle — for amplified ensemble and live electronics, premiered at SibaFest 2012.", "thumb": "assets/img/defunHaP-ARIA.jpg", "hero_media": "https://youtu.be/aYXJWzYso6U?feature=shared", "poetic": "Closing the HaP cycle through self-defining, self-devouring variations.", "description": "defun(HaP) (2012) is the final work in the HaP cycle, begun in 2007. Unlike earlier pieces in the cycle, it takes no preceding work as its model; instead, the Aria itself is the source for a set of self-defining, self-devouring variations. Techniques from previous HaP pieces, as documented in my Master's thesis, are joined here by new methods, and the live electronic tools used throughout the cycle make a final appearance — giving the series a logical conclusion. Commissioned by defunensemble and premiered at SibaFest 2012 in Helsinki, the piece is dedicated to Andrew Bentley, whose influence shaped my musical thinking and the unique Music Technology Department at the Sibelius Academy.", "tech": "Amplified ensemble (flute, clarinet, harp, piano, cello) and live electronics.", "roles": ["Composer"], "collaborators": ["defunensemble", "Sami Klemola (artistic director), Merja Nieminen (visuals)"], "movements": [ "ARIA", "VARIATIO I", "INTERMISSIO", "VARIATIO II", "INTERMISSIO", "VARIATIO III", "INTERMISSIO", "RECAPITULATIO" ], "exhibitions": [ {"when": "January 2012", "where": "SibaFest — Helsinki Music Centre (premiere). defunensemble."} ], "release": { "album": "Score", "publisher": "Music Finland", "year": "", "format": "Score available through Music Finland", "url": "https://core.musicfinland.fi/composers/josue-moreno" }, "supporters": [ {"name": "defunensemble", "url": "https://www.defunensemble.com/"}, {"name": "Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki", "url": "https://www.uniarts.fi/en/sibelius-academy/"}, {"name": "SibaFest"} ] }, { "slug": "flowing-micros", "title": "flowing micros", "year": "2012", "type": "Concert Hall", "summary": "Revised acousmatic work for fixed media — exploring sound flow through composition, improvisation, and digital processing.", "thumb": "assets/img/micros.jpg", "hero_media": "https://soundcloud.com/jomoreno/flowing-micros-binaural-live-recording", "poetic": "Acousmatic experience from choreographed piano recordings, microphonic experimentation, and digital signal processing.", "description": "flowing micros (2012) is a revised version of my 2008 work micros, made for the double compilation CD Sound-In 2012, published by Sound-In Estampa (Madrid). The original micros emerged as a reaction to my installation Gates (April 2008), which worked with what I called 'choreographed field recordings.' That experience pushed me toward new paradigms of tape composition — balancing composition and improvisation, randomness and determinism, microphonic experimentation and digital signal processing. This balance has remained central to my music ever since.", "tech": "Stereo fixed media; acousmatic composition; microphonic experimental techniques; digital signal processing.", "roles": ["Composer", "Sound diffusion"], "exhibitions": [ {"when": "2014", "where": "MuTefest — Acousmatica XIV, Helsinki"} ], "press": [ {"quote": "…flowing micros, a crepitant electroacoustic composition of intense habitability.", "label": "Ismael G. Cabral, Chorro de Luz"} ], "release": { "album": "Sound-In 2012", "publisher": "Sound-In Estampa, Madrid", "year": "2012", "format": "Double CD compilation (digipack)", "url": "https://www.discogs.com/release/4997769-Various-Sound-In-2012-" }, "listen": { "label": "Listen on SoundCloud", "url": "https://soundcloud.com/jomoreno/flowing-micros-binaural-live-recording", "note": "Live binaural recording of the sound diffusion at MuTefest 2014, Helsinki" }, "supporters": [ {"name": "Sound-In Estampa, Madrid", "url": "https://www.discogs.com/release/4997769-Various-Sound-In-2012-"}, {"name": "Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki", "url": "https://www.uniarts.fi/en/sibelius-academy/"} ] }, { "slug": "una-voz-todas-las-voces", "title": "Una voz, todas las voces", "year": "2014", "type": "Public Space", "summary": "Immersive vocal installation with eight 'druid-speakers' — dialogues between natural and artificial voices, between past and present.", "thumb": "assets/img/unaVozlogoPic.jpg", "hero_media": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j6aNLK3TnY", "poetic": "Sounds never cease to exist; we are the ones to stop being able to perceive them.", "description": "\"Sounds never cease to exist; we are the ones to stop being able to perceive them, or they become other forms of energy. With the appropriate technical means, we should be able to hear again the sounds that surround us, constantly coming from the past.\"\n\nThis is the assumption made by Marconi that I take as a metaphor for my recent sound projects.\n\nEight 'druid-speakers' distributed throughout the space accompany the visitor into a panvocal sonic world, where artificial and natural voices enhance the acoustic aspects of the occupied space. The installation creates multiple dialogues between space and work; natural and supernatural voice; signifier and signified; past and present — moving from tempered singing to spoken word through a wide range of microtonal situations.\n\nThe work was made possible by the Phonos grant programme, developed at the Phonos studios using software developed at the Music Technology Group (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) — Vocaloid and KaleiVoiceCope — for the generation and processing of the human voice.\n\n— Josué Moreno, November 2014", "tech": "Eight-channel sound installation; voice synthesis and processing (Vocaloid, KaleiVoiceCope); generative system developed at Phonos / MTG, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.", "roles": ["Composer", "Sound artist", "Programmer"], "exhibitions": [ {"when": "November 2014", "where": "Phonos, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona"} ], "listen": { "label": "Listen to an excerpt on SoundCloud", "url": "https://soundcloud.com/jomoreno/unavozexcerpt", "note": "Audio excerpt of Una voz, todas las voces (2014)" }, "supporters": [ {"name": "Phonos Foundation", "url": "https://www.upf.edu/web/phonos"}, {"name": "Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra", "url": "https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg"} ] }, { "slug": "eco-narciso", "title": "Eco & Narciso", "year": "2018", "type": "Public Space", "summary": "Sound and visual installation by the parra&moreno duo — seven mirrored wells at Palau de la Música, Valencia, articulating the myth of Echo and Narcissus.", "thumb": "https://img.youtube.com/vi/vi7Fu0O186c/maxresdefault.jpg", "hero_media": "https://youtu.be/vi7Fu0O186c", "poetic": "Only the voice remains. A network of references articulated through seven mirrored wells.", "description": "The nymph Echo, punished to speak only by repeating the last word another person says, had an unfortunate encounter with Narcissus. After his rejection, Echo hides and disappears, leaving only her voice. Nemesis takes revenge by making Narcissus fall in love with his own reflection. This myth becomes the basis for articulating a network of references and concepts in this sound and visual installation.\n\nEco & Narciso is a sound and visual installation by parra&moreno, commissioned by the Institut Valencià de la Cultura for the 40th Ensems Music Festival, 'Espai que sona, espai del so.' It was inaugurated on 13 April 2018 in the Atrium of the Bamboos at the Palau de la Música, Valencia.\n\nSeven circular mirrors placed on the floor — surrounded by lacquered stones that simulate wells — receive the visitor. Compositions in the manner of tondi form on the mirror surfaces from opaque, transparent, and reflective shapes, adding layers of complexity and depth to the visual experience. These mirrors do not only reflect and shape the image; they also emit and modulate the sounds that constitute the identity of the installation's sonic atmosphere. Each mirror is slightly different in composition and represents a distinct sonic colour, distributing a total of seven audio channels.\n\nAna Parra has designed a listening environment to project Josué Moreno's sonic atmospheres, in which all the sound comes from below — delimiting the sound material into seven distribution zones. Producing sound from mirrors on the floor proposes an alternative mode of listening: in habitual listening environments we receive only secondary reflections from the floor, whereas in Eco & Narciso the sonic and luminous material emanates from below, and primary reflections elaborate the network of relationships and dialogues that the work presents.\n\nAna Parra has long worked with the concepts of fragility and vanity, through her series 'On Fragility.' The myth of Echo and Narcissus is therefore an attractive frame for articulating a network of sonic references — from the work with stones and echo points of Akio Suzuki, through Schumann's lieder, Charles Ives, the rhetorical figures of the Baroque, to David Bowie.\n\nMirrors have been a source of myths and superstitions throughout history because of the visual and sonic stimulus they produce — with mirrors, a space can appear and sound larger. Visual reflections on circular surfaces produce multiple cultural, symbolic, and personal references; they also stimulate ways of working with sound. The piano, for example, was recorded by capturing the sonic reflections that emanated from the mirror in the recording studio.\n\nWith all this, Parra and Moreno have created in Eco & Narciso a visual, sonic, and emotional atmosphere that awakens, permeates, or reveals the spirit of the place — the genius loci — where it is installed. In the original installation, the mirrors were arranged as a path leading from the Atrium to the concert hall; the sound also travels (through the seven audio channels) in the same direction.\n\nparra&moreno is a duo dedicated to creating spaces of listening, reflection, and dialogue, formed by Ana Parra — curation and installation — and Josué Moreno — sound art and research. In their collaborations, Parra designs listening environments by curating the sonic content and designing the space and the modes through which sound is distributed, while Moreno contributes his expertise in sonic acupuncture in public spaces and the design of aural climates.\n\nDedicated to the memory of José Manuel Costa.", "tech": "Seven-channel sound installation; seven circular floor mirrors-loudspeakers; generative music.", "roles": ["Composition", "Sound art", "Sonic acupuncture design"], "collaborators": [ "Ana Parra (visuals, curation, parra&moreno duo)", "Dāvis Ozoliņš (engineering)" ], "exhibitions": [ {"when": "13 April 2018", "where": "Atrium of the Bamboos, Palau de la Música, Valencia — 40th Ensems Music Festival, 'Espai que sona, espai del so' (inauguration)"} ], "supporters": [ {"name": "Institut Valencià de la Cultura", "url": "https://ivc.gva.es/"}, {"name": "Ensems Festival", "url": "https://ensems.es/"}, {"name": "Palau de la Música, Valencia", "url": "https://www.palauvalencia.com/"} ] } ]