
A veces con pena, a veces con esperanza
Materiality: Sound work & Research
"A veces con pena, a veces con esperanza" is a sound piece that explores the use of artificial intelligence tools in audio creation, in the cultural traditions of Latin America. The piece incorporates sounds derived from the copla, a traditional poetic form and folk song from Northern Argentina, reinterpreted through "LA VOZ CANTORA." This work emerged as part of the AI + Music LATAM research conducted by FUTURX and LARROSA. Pol Lain, Berenice Llorens, and Maia Koenig from the Amplify DAI collective delved into the exploration and experimentation of AI technologies, conceptualizing their use through interactive and dialogical work.
In the project's experimental module, the artists, along with the FUTURX community, thoroughly explored AI tools for generative music and images, voice cloning, and audio post-production. The result is a collaborative piece that includes a new voice model, "LA VOZ CANTORA, " and an application designed to explore its possibilities. Additionally, various AI tools and applications were systematized for music generation, audio processing, music management, synchronization, and curation, among other aspects.
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Where the birds come from by toros & Muscae Volitantes
Materiality: Performance A/V
“Where the birds come from” is an exploration of natural and artificial soundscapes. The bird sounds used in the work come from Argentina and Latin America. Together with AI generated bird sounds, they generate a symbiotic and synthetic fauna that listens and reacts to the instruments in real time. The video projections and live painting shape the performance, with a figurative interplay between the real, the imaginary, and the synthetic. The work speaks of the relationship between natural sounds, their coexistence and survival in human and artificial environments that sometimes become chaotic: how do birds communicate in spaces as noisy as the city? Do the birds scream?
Performance during the Earth Day Art Model 2023 More info here
Portal del Sur
Materiality: live A/V + Album
Collaborative project created by artists Carol Santana, Berenice Llorens, and Yaka Sales merging indigenous painting, real-time visuals, and sound composition to create a living portal—one that bridges cultures, revealing shared origins, the deep bond between humans and their environment, and the interplay between nature and technology. The project unfolds in four movements, culminating in the album Portal del Sur (Dialog, AR).
Project created at Artlab Artistic Residencies program by Amplify D.A.I. -- an initiative of the British Council in partnership with MUTEK Montréal, MUTEK Buenos Aires and Somerset House Studios in the UK. The programme is supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Fundación Williams. More info here
LIVE FROM THE MULTIVERSE (album)
Materiality: Album
Ravello Records and The Sonic Arts Ensemble present LIVE FROM THE MULTIVERSE, an album leveraging the possibilities of online performance and expanding the boundaries of contemporary music. Musicians from three different continents connect through the internet on low latency, high quality audio networks to perform repertoire ranging from composed, notated scores to freely structured pieces born from masterfully executed ensemble improvisation. With the utilization of extended techniques, singing bowls, and imaginative sound design, the ensemble develops and thrives in an enticing and innovative soundscape.// Review by Take Effect: “A Rising Tide Of Light”, the best track, lands in the middle, and recruits Norah Zuniga-Shaw’s voice, James Croson’s keys, and Berenice Llorens’ guitar for a very dreamy, psychedelic exploration of chamber prog-rock ideas, while “Octet/Sextet”makes great use of Joseph Sferra’s clarinet, Samuel Gardner’s keys and Ainger’s laptop manipulation into a very distinct electronic influenced landscape.
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Respiration
Materiality: Videoart with sound
Atmospheric journey of voices and interpretations of a selection of free verse poems from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Voices, experimental, electronic and electroacoustic textures dialogue with a visual text created using a collage of different techniques including analogue photography, free software and programming.
Work created with the support of the National Arts Fund in Córdoba, Argentina. December 2022.
Released in April 2022 under the label La Mona de Oro (AR-GE)
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Clorofílica Dance Video // Clorofílica (2022)
Materiality: Music for Video Dance
Music Colaboration with Cía Implante (2022) At the limit of the human, everything dissipates. There are no borders between machine and flesh. Cybernetic hybrids with hearts of chañar. Absorbing genetic alterations. Organisms with prostheses. Persisting in embodied nature. The view to nowhere. Insist. Juxtapose. To break. Translucid. The proposal invites to im-plant. To reconfigure the network. To wander and immerse oneself in the game of geolocation.
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Cascadas (2020/2021)
Materiality: A/V
Cascadas is an audiovisual piece created by Berenice Llorens (music) and Jimena Aldana (visuals). Nature and improvisation are the root of the work. Floating melodies immersed in a free pulse that are supported by sound cushions generated by the different sounds and noises that imitate the auditory pollution generated by the current context. The music emerges from a sound research process where some tools from Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening practice are used, and is composed with processed electric guitar and an analogue synthesizer. Jimena Aldana's visual work is composed of manual and digital collages that capture from the sound search, the natural landscapes in balance and/or imbalance of the different more robotic climates. In this way she finds a non-human protagonist that in its different scenarios and contexts transforms and reconstructs itself.
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Somos Piel (2018)
Materiality: Art performance
Participation as a sound artist in art performance Somos Piel, a research and production project created by artists Laura Faner and Mariana Saur Palmieri. This interdisciplinary initiative brings together musicians, artists, photographers, and illustrators to explore the skin as both a material and sensory organ, serving as a bridge connecting bodies and perceptions. The performance invites participants to strip away material belongings and navigate the space in a state of nudity, symbolizing a return to the "origin" through the interplay of art and the body. The work examines themes of identity, prejudice, and collectivity, leaving a lasting impact of gratitude, respect, and heightened awareness on performers, spectators, and creators alike.
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