UTOPIA 126 is Pau Magrané's plunderphonic exercise producing 8 electronic music tracks derived from 8 audio resources proposed by 8 different artists who met at a workshop called Fire-Hangout that took place on 2018 at Utopia 126 space, Carrer de Cristóbal de Moura, 126, 08019 Barcelona.
A Macbook Air and LG computer with Renoise, Audacity and Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch were used on the recording which lasts 12'60'', speed limited to 126 BPM.
Each artist proposed sounds are not blended with others.
Each participant was assigned to one note following western notation and then sung their name's 1st syllabes. Track's audio resources were kept at one note per track, different octaves where permited.
Proposals for the sound resources went like this:
DO-AN - Ángela Palacios
soundcloud.com/the-sunflower-band/fruit-bowl
RE-AR - Ariadna Parreu
youtu.be/_HbEejSqE9Y
MI-CA - Carlos Valverde
mattoid.bandcamp.com/track/no-pito-listo
FA-PA - Claudia Pagés
m.soundcloud.com/claudiapages/04-folly
SOL-E - Ethan Hayes-Chute
youtu.be/tPiaduBZHRU
LA-EU - Eulàlia Rovira
youtu.be/lTHckSzjNaE
SI-GE - Gerard Ortin
VID_20171202_120237.mp4
DO-QUI - Quim Packard
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3IdD4hOcTs
Cover picture by Ángela Palacios.
released August 2, 2018