Beatriz Vaca: „Narcoleptica“ The Invisible Move, (2024)

The series »Sonic Experiments« is dedicated to current developments within the various varieties of experimental electronic music. The program presents upcoming musicians and sound artists who either have a special sense for new, forward-looking impulses, or pursue particularly innovative compositional approaches. The aim of the series is to invite the audience to expect the unexpected. 

Beatriz Vaca: 

This piece offers an immersive, time-altering and reality-expanding sound experience that moves between experimental and popular music aesthetics. The voice is not used as a medium for text, but as a source of sound - serving as both an instrument and a precise convergence of body (physicality) and sound (immateriality). The mixture of electronics and acoustic instruments creates mysterious atmospheres that invite introspection.

The Invisible Move explores the transformative power of sound to alter our perception of space and time, even evoking a sense of movement or a disturbed sense of direction. The term “movement” also suggests the possibility of emotional change.

With my composition I want to stimulate a journey to imagined alternative worlds, (im)possible states of being or any reality we can imagine - through processed sounds that challenge our everyday consciousness. The listening experience unfolds on two parallel levels simultaneously: an intimate, introspective one and a collective, shared one.

Credits:

Dominik Kautz (Curator & project manager)
Götz Dipper (Guest artist mentor)
Laura Benetschik (Project management assistant)
Ben Miller (Sound director)
Manuel Urrutia (Stage manager)
Bernd Lintermann (LiDAR motion detection technology)
Hans Gass & Alexander Hauk (Light- & stage technician)

This year, »Culture Moves Europe« awarded five grant receivers with scholarships. Funded by the EU's »Creative Europe«-program, »Culture Moves Europe« is implemented by the Goethe-Institute.

Ben Fawke's scholarship is fully funded by ZKM | Karlsruhe with no additional funding from the European Union and is not part of »Culture Moves Europe«.

Maximilian Pellizzari’s project is co-funded by Autonome Provinz Bozen - Südtirol, Deutsche Kultur.