Mentor: Merche Blasco
21-22.05.2025/ 18:00 / Rezidenca 17
This two-day workshop introduces participants to basic electronics and circuit design, guiding them in building their own portable analog synthesizer. The instrument responds to environmental light conditions and bodily interactions through wearable pressure and stretch sensors.
Merche Blasco is a multimedia artist and composer who splits her time between Berlin and Barcelona. She designs and builds imprecise technological assemblages that catalyze embodied forms of live electroacoustic composition and new modes of listening. Through her constructed devices, Merche attempts to establish a more horizontal relationship with other entities, distancing herself from parameters of precision, power, and control. As an alternative form of performance, she engineers collaborative spaces with instruments that are given their own agency, in compositions where her body and the live exploration of organic materials are central elements. Her work also increasingly focuses on designing participatory sound performances in public spaces to connect strangers and their surroundings through collective music-making and listening.
If you want to know more about Merche’s work check the link: https://half-half.es/category/projects/
To be part of the workshop register in the link: https://forms.gle/ZbzKS8UhE2fqXYxu6
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Rezidenca 17’s program is supported by the Kosovar Civil Society Foundation (KCSF) program ‘EJA Kosovo’, co-financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Sweden. Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport; Municipality of Prishtina and SMART Balkans.
