PAISAJES INVISIBLES

Paisajes Invisibles (Invisible Landscapes) is a project of audio-visual creation and composition by Angélica Salvi and Carlos Fernández (in collaboration with other artists like OCP and Xavier Dasi) that joins electric harp and synthesizers with video and photography: The project tells stories while projecting dreamlike landscapes and unlikely wilderness of macro and microscopic environments. The projected images interact with light, shadows and sound in real-time during the concerts. Carlos uses the microscope, the space and the objects to create new dimensions within the projections, while Angélica changes the harp sound with electronic devices that manipulate its physical dimension (dynamics, timbre, duration or volume). The result is a series of audio and visual architectures that develop through time and space.A journey into the microcosm and macrocosm of all types of intangible organic structures where their universe is expressed through light and sound in a sculptural form.”

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Each piece is flexible enough to allow the listener to enter a short or lasting hypnosis, widened, stretched, elongated, extended, dilated, expanded or increased, which gives rise to fertile mantras through the several audio and visual tools. This search for freedom (of the individual and the authentic being) inside a structure (the society), allows the performers to adapt each piece for each concert according to circumstances, context and mood. Therefore the compositions are always different for each performance without losing their essence. The harp’s live recordings allows the foreground and background sounds to spread, creating a sensation of perspective, which creates sound illusions that are pleasant or neurotic, shadows that change with light, ghostly figures, apophenia and pareidolia, myopia and color blindness, abstract landscapes, adaptive and organic structures that suggest a certain meditative state through the repetitive ambiguous textures, improvisations, LOOPs, drones and different ambient special effects.

CREDITS

Video/Photos: Carlos Fernández

Harp and Sythesizer: Angélica Salvi