Morada Sónica celebrates its tenth anniversary this year with three nights of concerts and another audiovisual – Ayuntamiento de Almería

A new edition of Festival Morada Sónica arrives, the international festival of experimental music, sound arts, digital and intermediate culture, and not just any one, but it will serve to celebrate its tenth anniversary in style, reinforcing its consolidation as a benchmark with such a significant figure experimental art, contemporary sound and audiovisual creation from Andalusia without losing its vocation for national and international projection. This year’s event will be spread over two weeks. This Saturday, November 5, the Casa del Cine will receive a series of audiovisual presentations with music at the end, and the actual concert evenings will be on November 10, 11 and 12 at Clasijazz. All this with the collaboration of the Department of Culture and Education of the Almería City Council within the framework of the quarterly program for the current autumn season.

The activity on day 5 is free entry. Tickets for the rest of the concerts are on sale at www.moradasonica.com and they have a price that ranges between 5 and 7 euros for each evening, with the possibility of acquiring a subscription for the three nights for only 15 euros.

The Councilor for Culture, Diego Cruz, points out that “in recent weeks we have been developing gender-specific activities such as Latin music nights, the Pure State Guitar cycle, with three sold-out sessions, or, since last Saturday and for two more weeks, the International Jazz Festival. In all this variety we want to continue being on the side of all lovers of Almeria culture, also supporting the alternative scene, as is the case of this Morada Sónica that has been bringing the best creators of this exciting music to Almería for ten years. gender. I am sure that it will be an enriching meeting, always guided by the most alternative and experimental, making the Area’s programming also reach this type of public”.

For his part, Josep María Soler, one of the organizers of the event, points out that “currently, the festival is working on extending its activities to the entire autonomous community with the creation of delegations in the eight Andalusian provinces, without losing its purely Almeria origin, while opening its spectrum to all artistic disciplines, maintaining its experimental character and emphasizing values ​​such as inclusion, the transmission of knowledge, sustainability, equal access to cultural goods, diversity and environmental awareness ”.

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Saturday, November 5. Starting at 8:00 p.m., La Casa del Cine will host a presentation party in which audiovisual material on the artists participating in this edition will be premiered, in addition to music by Javier Arnal, Stahl Fabrik, My Nation Shit and Pussy Trap. This initiative has the involvement of La Oficina and also of the students of image and sound modules, which is another of the parallel activities that Morada Sónica has been reinforcing in recent editions.

Thursday, November 10. Black Flower at Clasijazz starting at 10:00 p.m. Black Flower is an original musical project created and led by Yexza Lara (Barcelona/Canarian singer-songwriter) together with two of the most creative and daring musicians on the Barcelona scene: Pablo Selnik (super flutist and improviser, one of the most outstanding musicians on the Catalan jazz/improvisation scene) and Clara Lai (outstanding pianist and improviser on the avant-garde/impro stage in Barcelona). The music is influenced by pop and avant-garde currents. Rare melodies, free improvisation, sound experiments and powerful lyrics recreate terror.

Friday, November 11. Elektroreille, Susan Drone and Edith Alonso with Edu Cortina at Clasijazz starting at 8:00 p.m. Elektroreille is an electronic music group from Almeria, formed by the restless and caustic duo Salvador Vives and Sergio Flores with great experience in live shows behind their slender backs, different and varied musical origins of the two musical operators, united by some common interests such as electro, space music and experimental electronic music. Traces of substantial techno, a direct heir to Detroit, can be glimpsed in this band,

Repetitive, visual structures, dark ambient, distorted rhythms, saturated and buried melodies. Susana López, known worldwide as Susan Drone, proposes a deep experience of drones and rhythms. Interested in building immersive experiences from intangible materials, her creation explores the effects that the combination of electronic sounds, transformed field recordings, deconstructed voices and sounds of homemade instruments can have on the public.

Edith Alonso is a composer, improviser and sound artist from Madrid. After a stay in Paris, in which she discovered concrete music with the followers of Pierre Schaeffer’s teachings (François Bayle and Pierre Henry), she decided to dedicate herself to exploring new ways of experimenting with sound. Since then, she has been interested in electroacoustic music and radio art, regularly collaborating with other artists and blurring the boundaries between the arts and their definitions. Edu Cortina makes museum installations, visual works for theater, as well as video mapping on architecture, landscape elements or people.

Saturday, November 12. Orfeón Gagarin and Juanma Cidrón with Laura Moyano at Clasijazz, starting at 9:00 p.m. Orfeón Gagarin is the first project of the Madrid electronic pioneer Miguel A. Ruiz. Fascinated by the sound possibilities of analog and digital synthesizers and instruments, Ruiz’s style is fantastic and surprising, with an imagination that can be classified as overwhelming in a long and prolific career that reaches today. Energy, Soviet cosmonautics, Borges, surrealism, Moscow, clinical pathologies, black humor or extraplanetary life have a place in the microcosm of Miguel A. Ruiz. His musical references are very diverse: the post-industrial music of the eighties, German cosmic music, pioneers of electro-acoustic, ambient, Japanese techno pop or retro-futuristic pop, etc.

Juan Manuel Cidrón is a veteran talent of Spanish electronic music since the early 1980s, when he began his career in his native Almería. His work is based on the sound of synthesizers, modulars and an impressive repertoire of analog instruments, which make up one of the best collections in the country. The works of his early years are under the influence of the pioneers of cosmic and gliding music of the Berlin School of the 70s, such as Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schülze or Ash Ra Tempel.

Laura Moyano has a degree in Singing from the Victoria Eugenia Superior Conservatory of Music in Granada, where she learned the importance of technical and intellectual discipline with Ana Huete. She made her debut in the field of electronic music together with Almeria composer Juan Manuel Cidrón with ‘De la sombra y de lapuma’, (2009) with whom she collaborated again on ‘Equilibrios en el aire’ (2013). She also participated together with the pianist Santiago Alonso in ‘La hora española, especial homage to the lyrical’.