- Event
- Concert
TURNS ECO / EXO: Barking Fauna
Merche Blasco x Sara Lana with Félix Blume
Thu, February 26, 2026 7:00 pm CET
The new ECO / EXO cycle translates central areas of tension in the present into immersive sound spaces and combines ecological fragility with speculative, extraterrestrial perspectives. Both artistic positions use space as an active compositional element working with multi-layered electroacoustic processes. The concert contrasts two different approaches to material, perception, and time. Together, the works open up new perspectives of listening between body, environment, and imagination.
Moderated by Mira Hirtz & Dr. Lea Luka T. Sikau
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Fauna
Merche Blasco
Fauna is a live improvisational show composed in three movements using a set of custom-made instruments and artifacts. These objects come to life through exploration and touch, following Merche’s embodied composition methodology of physical interaction with alternative materials. Throughout the performance Merche renders audible unheard energetic forces, exploring the electromagnetic resonance interconnecting all bodies present in the room.
“Through exploration and touch, Blasco brings a playful, alien excitement to sonic materials which are serious, and deep: from breaming ambience to gloopy wallops of extraterrestrial bass, a vivacious concoction of textures and rhythms bubble up from her cauldron of unpredictable sounds.” - REWIRE festival -
MUTT DOGS
Sara Lana & Félix Blume
Known as “vira-latas” (dump tippers), stray dogs offer their canine listening abilities in conjunction with human cohabitation. As a dog, you love rummaging through dumpsters, looking for something to eat; you bark when a motorcycle passes by; you run after cars invading your territory; you dash in and out of houses; and you explore abandoned fields. This piece offers a ground level sonic walk, binaurally recorded by dogs in a recent urbanized neighborhood close to Belo Horizonte in Southeast Brazil.
