“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

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Portal del Sur is a collaborative A/V live project born from the Artlab Artistic Residencies program by Amplify D.A.I. Artists Carol Santana, Berenice Llorens and Yaka Sales merge indigenous painting, real-time visuals, and captivating soundscapes to create a sensory journey exploring Latin American culture and Addressing contemporary issues like the climate crisis. The project acts as a gateway, connecting diverse cultures while highlighting the shared themes of origin, human-environment connection, and the intertwining of life and technology. This journey of four different movements finished the process with an album release "Portal del Sur" edited by Dialog (AR). Portal del Sur was released on Mutek Montreal and it is part of the AMPLIFY D.A.I initiative.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMPLIFY D.A.I is 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.

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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 is one of three pieces on the album Leaving Leaves by the duo Marmotas Dreams of Berenice Llorens and Constanza Pellicci. The piece is characterised by an atmospheric journey of voices and interpretations of a selection of free verse poems from Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass. Voices, experimental electronic bases and digital and analogue processes dialogue with a visual text created by artist and programmer Karen Palacio aka Kardaver who used a collage of different techniques including analogue photography, free software and programming. Leaving Leaves, the duo's second album, was made with the support of a grant from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and was released in April 2022 under the label La Mona de Oro (AR-GE)

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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 is an ambient audiovisual piece created by Berenice Llorens (music) and Jimena Aldana (visuals). Nature and improvisation are at 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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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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