Saturday
BMA lab: Compositional process in SYNSPECIES
with Elías Merino and Tadej Droljc
SYNSPECIES is a collaborative audiovisual project developed by the Spanish designer and musician Elías Merino and the Slovenian media artist Tadej Droljc. In this masterclass, the two artists take the audience behind the scenes of their work and present the ideas behind the audiovisual imagery of SYNSPECIES.
The work is inspired by virtual ecologies and unstable morphological spaces that emerge from a devastating interaction of co-existing unrelated entities with the void. It is out of these dichotomies, dialogues and conflicts that the duo have built the unique audiovisual language that is the driving force behind SYNSPECIES.
They will also present ASBU, a journey through time and space. In this work, the artist duo explore concepts such as speculative fiction, the weird, superstitions; a particular view of cyberspace; dream visions, myths and folktales; as well as the sublime yet harsh realities of nature’s workings.
SYNSPECIES
SYNSPECIES is the outcome of several long discussions and conceptual drifts regarding virtual audiovisual objects, digital art paradigms, and narrative exploration. The project is a creation of artists Elías Merino and Tadej Droljc, inspired by virtual ecologies and unstable morphological spaces that emerge from a devastating interaction of co-existing unrelated entities with the void.
Elías Merino
Elías Merino is a composer and sound artist based in Madrid. His practice includes installation, composition and live performance. Merino works in the fields of abstract and algorithmic computer music, contemporary electronics and instrumental music.
Tadej Droljc
Tadej Droljc is a Slovenian artist and creative coder working at the intersection of sound, image and light. He has been awarded the Lumen Prize Student Award, the Dennis Smalley Scholarship in Electroacoustic Music and the Most Promising Video Artist Award at Madatac (Madrid).