Nov 2011 – 46 min
For Radio del Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, ES

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Tracklist:

Toshiya Tsunoda – Recorded Landscape: Pier – Untitled, 2003, Bremsstrahlung
Asher – Any Place Whatever – Audible Geography (VA), 2008, Room40
Gordon Hempton – Outback Billibong / Red Sky – Earth´s Morning Song, 1995, Miramar
Marc Namblard – Amours d’anoures et de rousserolles – Lorraine, ondes et lumières (Still water and lights), 2009, Chiff-Chaff
Steven Feld – Galo, Afternoon – Rainforest Soundwalks, 2001, Earth Ear
Bernie Krause – Amazon Days – Amazon Days, Amazon Nights, 1998, Miramar
Yannick Dauby – Babina Adenopleura – Olive Frog –
Songs Of The Frogs Of Taiwan Vol.1, 2009, Kalerne
Artificial Memory Trace – Akvatikinsekt 1, 2010, Psy_clone Records
Michael Prime – Rafflesia – Borneo, 2007, Mycophile Records
David Dunn – Chaos & The Emergent Mind Of The Pond – Angels And Insects, 1992, ¿What Next? Recordings
Eric La Casa – Spirale 3 – W2, 2010, Herbal International
Cheryl E. Leonard – Storm on Gamage Point – Chattermarks: Field Recordings from Palmer Station, Antarctica, 2010, Great Hoary Marmot Music
Lasse-Marc Riek – Habitats , 2010, 3LEAVES
Chris Watson & BJ Nilsen – SIGWX – Storm, 2006, Touch
Mark Peter Wright – Inanimate Life , 2010, 3LEAVES
Jana Winderen – Aquaculture – Energy Field, 2010, Touch
Douglas Quin – 77o 37′ S 165o 48′ E – Fathom, 2010, Taiga Records
Andreas Bick – Fire Pattern – Fire and Frost Pattern, 2010, Gruenrekorder
Bruno Moreigne – Drop Collisions Near 45°47’12N / 2°02’07E , 2011, Kaon
Tectonic – M6.5/M5.4, off the east coast of Honshu , Japan, Fri March 11, 2011, soundcloud.com/micahfrank
John Duncan – The Nazca Transmissions , 2009, Alga Marghen
Jacob Kirkegaard – Gaea – Eldfjall, 2005, Touch

Group project ‘Broadcasting Den Haag’, initiated by Raviv Ganchrow at the Institute of Sonology, Den Haag, NL
Aired on framework radio #336, July 2011

Aeolian Transmission is based on the exploration of the action of wind. Since my arrival to The Netherlands and the discovery of its weather conditions, I started to pay more attention to the interactions of wind in the urban environment, including all sorts of architectural elements, objects and materials. Actually, wind itself seems to be a tricky phenomena to be captured using regular microphones, whose principle is usually based in a diaphragm which moves accordingly to air pressure variations, something which might easily result in distortion when wind blows on them. Therefore, I approached this force in a non-direct way as well, tapping into it as it flows through other mediums such as water and solids, attempting to reveal what cannot be heard with our bare ears.

Soundspheres is a new eduational initiative created in South Holland, targeted to primary and secondary education schools. It intends to promote awareness to the sonic environment, engaging the kids into field recording, sound mapping and composition with the collected sounds, using a mixer which is integrated in their online map.

I was invited to compose a one minute sound sphere using the same tools for their artists section, which is meant to work as example and inspiration for the students. It contains also sound spheres by Cilia Erens, Zeno van den Broek and Danny de Graan.

I chose to portrait an specific location near my own home. It is the Haagsche Bos, a forest/park in the center of Den Haag.

featured sound spheres

A sound narrative based on the experience at the 20th Annual Deep Listening Retreat, held in July 2010 by Pauline Oliveros, Ione and Heloise Gold at Nau Côclea, in the catalonian village of Camallera.

Departing from recordings made on location, it follows a walk through different places and moments over the course of a fictitious time. The surrounding environment, our work space, moments of meditation, personal and collaborative explorations are all present in this interpretation of the days spent at the retreat.

An interplay between the occurrences and traces found in the recorded material with my own memories and the impressions, images, sounds, perceptions or meanings that might be conjured in the imagination of the listener.

Sounds recorded in Camallera, Girona (ES) July 6-10, 2010.
Edited and composed in Barcelona, Madrid and The Hague, Aug-Dec 2010.

Presented at the Royal Academy of Art of The Hague in January 2011.
Broadcasted in the show ‘Taller de Arte’ (Spanish National Radio) in the Spring 2011.
Forthcoming release of a digital album version (T.B.A.).

Fallen Leaves ‘OCHIBA’ Compilation
Field Noise Records (JP), Jan 2011

Ochiba 2011 by Ochiba

Fallen Leaves ‘OCHIBA’ is an experimental worldwide calling for field recordings of fallen leaves. All unique tracks are mixed together into one album. There are two side of Ochiba, Side A is purely field recordings, Side B is composed one. This album is a miraculous encounter of universe of fallen leaves.

Participants: ANDO Takeyasu, Pablo Sanz Almoguera, SANSEI, Mario Sarramian, SALA, Stan Pete, lukemunn, Noise Lake, John Grzinich, Marcus Beuter, Sean O’Neill, tt-vox, vernier 1418.

I contributed to Side A with a recording made in Madrid in Nov 2010.

Elevator Music
Group show and cd publication
December 2010, Gallery Aferro, Newark, US

Nine artists and groups have created a total of 51 minutes of music to be played on permanent loop in the freight elevator of Gallery Aferro and archived as part of Aferro Publications as a limited edition CD of 70.

Participating artists: 3 Teens Kill 4 – No Motive: David Wojnarowicz, Jesse Hultberg, Julie Hair, Bill Gerstel, Brian Butterick, Doug Bressler, Anette Barbier, Zoe Chan, Spencer Frohwirth, Kevin Ley, F. Ribeiro, Pablo Sanz, Benjamin Thorp, Jessica Westbrook

Curated by Adam Trowbridge. Concept by Emma Wilcox. CD Design by Andrew Wilkinson.

My contribution to this project is Rising Down, a piece based in the auditory illusion known as shepard tone.

Sep 2009 – 32 min
Live at Experimentaclub, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
Broadcast on RadiaLX 2010: Radio Art Festival, Lisbon, PT, July 2010

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Dedicated to Juan Pablo Sanz Fdez. de la Puebla (in memoriam, 1946-2009).

Tracklist:

Dr. Timothy Leary – The Beginning Of The Voyage (Heart Chakra) [Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out, 1967]
Produkt- Nord [Stretch, 1997, Raster-Noton]
Reanimator – Clicks And Drones May… [Special Powers, 2006, Community Library]
Takehisa Kosugi – 75 Letters And Improvisation A - A Chance Operation: The John Cage Tribute, 1993, Koch]
Gilles Deleuze – L’Immortalité De L’Âme [Spinoza : Immortalité Et Éternité, 2001, Gallimard]
Wehowsky / Wollscheid – Happy Deterritorializations [VA - In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze, 1996, Mille Plateaux]
Sleeparchive – Image Photometer [Infrared Glow 12”, 2005, Sleeparchive]
Brion Gysin – ‘I Am’ Machine-poem [1960, ubu.com]
Ryoji Ikeda – Test Pattern #0001 [Test Pattern, 2008, Raster-Noton / CCI Recordings]
NHK – _1 [Unununium, 2008, Raster-Noton]
Petr Vasa – AEIOU [Poemes Physiques Acoustiques, 1994]
Alva Noto – U_04 [Unitxt, 2008, Raster-Noton]
Yasunao Tone & Hecker – Palimpsest [Palimpsest, 2004, Mego]
Grischa Lichtenberger – 0106_12_LV_3 Sand Ausheben [~Treibgut, 2009, Raster-Noton]
Merzbow – Ushiwaka 2 [Kokuchou: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 8, 2009, Important Records]
Toru Takemitsu – Ki, Sora, Tori [VA - Early Japanese Electronic Music, 2003, Earlabs]
Otomo Yoshihide & Sachiko M – Filament 1-7 [Filament 1, 1998, Extreme]
Ami Yoshida – #11, #14, #20, #75 [Tiger Thrush, 2003, Improvised Music From Japan]

Sep 2009 – 71 min
Live at Experimentaclub, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES

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Dedicated to Juan Pablo Sanz Fdez. de la Puebla (in memoriam, 1946-2009).

Tracklist:

The Caretaker – We Cannot Escape The Past – A Stairway To The Stars, 2001, V/Vm Test Records
KTL – Estranged – KTL, 2006, Editions Mego
Akira Rabelais – A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu – Elongated Pentagonal Pyramid, 1999, Ritornell
Richard Garet – L´avenir – L´avenir, 2008, Winds Measure Recordings
Mark Bain – track_02 – StartEndTime (WTC 9/11 seismic data sonification), 2003, Staalplaat / Resonance FM
Morton Feldman – Triadic Memories, 1981
Gilles Aubry – untitled_04 – Berlin Backyards, 2008, Crónica
Guy De Bièvre – Linear [Broadway] – Manhattan [Linear, Circular, Lateral], 2004
Christopher McFall – Perplex Fable – Various – Mandorla Autumn Soundscapes, 2007, Mandorla
Herbert Distel – Act Two (pt1) …Transeuropexpress – La Stazione, 1990, Hat Hut Records
Brume – A1.Unrelated Landscape – Unrelated Landscape, 1990, Audiofile Tapes
Jana Winderen – Submerged – Submerged, 2009, Touch
Asher – Any Place Whatever – Various – Audible Geography, 2008, Room40
Gordon Hempton – Olympic National Park: The Listener´s Yosemite – One Square Inch of Silence, 2009
Stephen Vitiello – #02 – Listening To Donald Judd, 2007, Sub Rosa
Shinkei – untitled_02 – Biostatics, 2008, TRANS>PARENT RADIATION
CM Von Hausswolff – Mexico City And Tokyo – Three Overpopulated Cities Built By Short-sighted Planners, An Unbalanced And Quite Dangerous Airport And An Abandoned Church, 2004, Sub Rosa
Michael Prime – Dissolving Geologic Time – Fructification, 1989, Mycophyle Records
Christophe Charles – Deposition – Undirected 1992 – 2002, 2003, Sub Rosa
Simon Whetham – swimming with the medusa – Ratcha Anachak Thai, 2008, Touch / Con-v
Mika Vainio – Roma A.D. 2727 – Black Telephone Of Matter, 2009, Touch
Francisco López – Les Paroles M’Ont Laissé Indifferént – Paris Hiss, 1996, Banned Production
Chop Shop – Oxide – Oxide, 2008, 23Five
Tarab – Dust – Wind Keeps Even Dust Away, 2007, 23Five
William Basinski – d-p 4 – The Disintegration Loops III, 2003, 2062

HOTS! Radio #25: MADRIDSOUNDSCAPE + SOINUMAPA
Pablo Sanz & Mikel R. Nieto – live at Studio Loos, Den Haag, NL – March 26, 2010
podcast, 50min, Aug 2010

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The two Spanish sound maps madridsoundscape and soinumapa were presented in The Netherlands with a duo concert which merged sounds from Madrid region and Leitza, Navarra.

Thanks to: Angel Faraldo, Yolanda Uriz, Manuel Calurano, Juan Carlos Blancas and Xabier Erkizia.

Work in progress based in the sonic exploration of the subway network in Madrid.

TRAYECTO#1, premiered at the Royal Academy of Art, June 2010.
Broadcast on the show Vía Límite (Spanish National Radio) on April 5, 2011.

from 20 to 20000 hz #24 : regreso al futuro was produced in Feb 2008 for the 10th edition of the festival ZEMOS98 (Seville, Spain)

Two different audiovisual versions were made in May 2010 in order to introduce the series to the ArtScience Interfaculty at the Royal Academy of Art of The Hague, NL.

A full screening version of 98 min, dvd-r limited edition of 24 copies.
A second version, the ‘dromology edit’, is a 98sec compression of the set, published as an online video.

Included in a selection of visual music text based videos, posted by Blanca Rego on Mediateletipos.

Periféricos. Arte Contemporáneo en la Provincia de Córdoba
Exhibition opening on 7 April, 2010, Sala Puerta Nueva, Córdoba, Spain.

Periféricos brings together contemporary artistic and cultural initiatives in the region of Córdoba. Sensxperiment participates bringing a Dreamachine and the screening of FlicKeR, a documentary about Brion Gysin and the history of this device. This is part of the programe of its triennial edition 2009-2011, under the theme ‘Sensory Immersion’, realized in collaboration with Mediateletipos.net.

Audio mix made to accompany the Dreamachine experience in the exhibition space.

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Gysin / Burroughs / P-Orridge : “Interviews & Readings” // Cold Spring Tape (CS006, 1989) · Daniel Lercher : “Resonanzen” // Alg-a (alg046, 2008) · ZLB : “I Was Vaguely Aware of Something” // Friendly Virus (T4, 2008) · William Burroughs / Ian Sommerville : “Silver Smoke of Dreams” (early 1960s) · C.P. McDill : “Introspection”, Webbed Hand Records (wh104, 2008) · Kenneth Kirschner : “070905” // 05 compositions, Alg-a (alg018, 2005) · Adrián Juárez : “Cenit” // Split series # 3, Mirakelmusik (mir024, 2007) · Brion Gysin : “3 Permutations [Recalling All Active Agents]” (1960) · Pablo Reche: “Constelación D” // Constelación, Conv (cnv06, 2004) · Sustainer : “Vértice 2” // Vértice, Escala (escala 1:5, 2010)· Minimal States : “Stereopsis” // Like A Photograph, Test Tube (tube187, 2009) · _blank : EXT [procura interna] // Alg-a (alg043, 2008) · Gysin / Burroughs / P-Orridge : “Interviews & Readings” // Cold Spring Tape (CS006, 1989) · Bryon Gysin : “Pistol Poem” (1960) · Gregory Taylor : “Seismic Profile” // Two Maps of Danaraja, Stasisfield (SF-6005, 2008) · Night Drone : “Drift1” // Drifts 1-4, Petcord (pc1108-01, 2008) · Brion Gysin : “3 Permutations [No Poets Don´t Own Words]” (1960) · Shinkei : binaural frequency // Koyuki (koy000, 2007) · Out Level : “Water” // Water Recordings, bypass (bp012, 2008) · ZLB : “Neuronal Adequacy” (2010)

132 min – All the contents have been released under copyleft licenses.

A collection of short tracks based on blind field recordings (mostly subaquatic) made in waterways in Den Haag, coast of Scheveningen and in the mountains of Rascafría (Madrid).

1. Anchorage
2. Biotope
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3. Filtration
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4. Beneath
5. Undercurrent
6. Frictions
7. Swarming
8. Tidal
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Total duration : 14 min
Headphones listening recommended.

Exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag, NL, January and February 2010.
Awarded at the competition Europa-A Sound Panorama, 2011.
Forthcoming digital release (TBA).

Collaboration with Niels Böttche, Reinhard Gupfinger and Vanessa de Michelis.
With the support of Stephan Baumann (DKFI), Bram de Jong (Freesound Project) and the COST SiD Action Eu Programme.
Summer School in Sound and Music Computing & SID Training School on Interactions with Environmental Sounds
July 18-21, 2009 – Casa Da Música , Porto, Portugal

Four dimensions of the audible and hidden soundscapes of Porto are captured along three chosen routes within the city (Riverside, the historic city centre and a trip in metro). These layers consist of binaural sound, ultrasonic, electromagnetic range and underwater/surface recordings.

The gps coordinates of the walks are traced into a sound map which can be navigated with a Wii controller. The interface allows to smoothly switch between the four sound layers, jump between the routes, move backward and forward or change the speed of the journey.

A phonographic exploration of the canals in Den Haag, Netherlands, Spring 2009

- Exhibition at Royal Academy of Art, June.
Interactive sound map, photo documentation and acousmatic multichannel installation.

- Quadraphonic concert, June 26.
Wonderwerp Special Edition, Studio Loos, Den Haag, NL.

- Poster about the project, July 19-21.
SMC09 Summer School, 6th Sound and Music Computing Music Conference, Casa da Música, Porto, PT.

- Liminal (04:28)
Included in group show at Lokaal01 (Breda, NL), June 6.