Sónar reaches the guts of Casa Batlló with an immersive expertise by The Chemical Brothers | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

Sónar is a really Barcelona pageant, which has all the time been spreading its experimental tentacles to sudden corners of the town. This time he has reached on to the middle, managing to gentle a small cubicle-shaped coronary heart within the basement of one in every of Gaudí's icons, Casa Batlló. The benchmark pageant of music, innovation and creativity kicks off its thirty first version with an audiovisual set up signed by The Chemical Brothers and Smith & Lyall. The expertise lasts 13 minutes and tickets are actually on sale at a value of 15 euros. Beyond the official days of the pageant, June 14 and 15, this present may be loved from tomorrow till July 31.

The music The Chemical Brothers have created for 'Music:Response' sounds far more chill. There is not any want to attend for a brief transportation from a live performance at Sónar at night time to the middle of the modernist constructing. Here you come to circulation, to let your self be carried away by the photographs and music, which transport the viewer from one subject to a different, as in the event that they had been inside a video clip. Enric Palau, co-director of Sónar, stated final night time on the preview that “it is designed for a wide audience,” each festival-goers and household or intergenerational audiences.

Getting to The Cube, which is that this area at Casa Batlló that recreates a dice, a 360º area positioned within the basement and designed to supply immersive audiovisual experiences, has been an extended course of, says Palau. The Chemical Brothers, Sónar's undisputed dance associate, had lengthy needed to depart the massive stage to supply new experiences. Here they handle to create a extra intimate envelope, for about forty folks, with the work of Smith & Lyall, the visible artists who’ve accompanied them on their excursions for 3 a long time.

At the preview, the 2 artists had been very grateful for with the ability to premiere this montage inside a piece by the modernist architect: “Gaudí illustrates the freedom of expression to which we aspire. He created fantasy worlds with his own buildings, with his own rules and his own logic. They are immersive environments in which you have the sensation of being outside the world we know, an evasion of reality towards the sublime, which The Chemical Brothers shares.” The British duo, shaped by Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands, couldn’t be on the presentation, however the day earlier than they left all the pieces prepared for the premiere this Friday.

This set up brings a brand new dimension to the inventive universe that emerged from this collaboration, putting the general public for the primary time on the heart of the expertise and surrounding it with the well-known 3D robots and dancers. All this with new sounds from the digital duet. It is unattainable to not take out your cell telephones whereas the photographs intersect with you, rising from any of the LEDs that encompass the viewer. But all the pieces is relaxed, even the music sounds at many fewer watts than Sónar is used to. For highs to the rhythm of 'Hey Boy, Hey Girl' you’ll have to proceed going to the epicenter of the pageant, at Fira Gran Via 2.

The Cube stays as a brand new area

After the premiere of Sónar, The Cube will proceed to supply progressive experiences that mix music and visible artwork from different artists. Casa Batlló has made an funding of 4 million euros to adapt this area, constructed with pixels and high-end audio, which will likely be staffed by top-notch creators and engineers. As its director, Gary Gautier, stated, The Cube is “a blank canvas” to paint Barcelona slightly extra.

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