Modisti is a sound area of a very complex and yet simple world. It is what we can no longer remedy, what comes out in such a way because that’s the way we are and nowadays, in this day and age, it couldn’t be in any other way. Our trajectory, what we have tried to do in order to get closer to ourselves once transcended each stage of our evolution shown through sound vibration.
Belma Martín & Pedro López.
The form may change at every instant, but in the same way that we accept and include this vertigo in our daily activity, we also accept to sort out this aspect in the music in the same way.
This kind of sample is made from innumerable points of view; the thrill produced by living in a medium which is generally highly mediated by ideologties and unshared forms, and the excitement produced, on the other hand by creating a daily living full of interchangeable personal guarantees, with full a complete autonomy in the choice of what we feel is best suited for the developement of our own individuality/totality.
It is like what lays between the shell and the seed of certain fruits. The result as such it isn’t more than a mere snapshot of the creative process of two people that investigate in innumerable fields of music. Everything that relates to comunication through what they know best; the meaning of living and of being awake
multicanal sound instalation for five channels Belma Martín: voice Pedro López : electronics Stereo Version Quadraphonic version The files in format AC3 quadraphonic are an acceptable version of the original quadraphonic files, but they have a certain amount of compression. In order to stream quadraphonic version you must have (besides obviously a …
Life doesn’t always favour the positive or healthy we are familiar with, the gleam of a plant nor the indefinite taste of water from a spring. Life enters unknown paths that are yet to be defined; children, don’t show up your faces at the sad scene of the stone- breaker’s who didn’t know how the …
Live multimedia performance recorded in September 2000 Stevie Wishart: hurdy gurdy, electronics, voice Belma Martin : voice Jim Denley : sax, flute Pedro Lopez : electronics, 3d animations
signoise by modisti If, on the basis of the instrumentation, you expect one of those junk-noise collages which so often don’t work, you’re in for a big surprise. Although on paper Modisti are a duet of live object-sampling and voice, in reality their pieces are carefully constructed. Lopez may play “objects intended for the trash”, …
Live RDSI Performance recorded in 1998 from Madrid . Modisti . Belma Martín: Voice , Pedro López : Live electronics from Barcelona . Liba Villavechia: sax & electronics, Joan Saura : keyboards
metalógica by modisti Metalogic is part of logic semiotics, that is; of the branch of semiotics that deals with the study of logical signs in general. Metalogic is a metalanguage and as such it has the three dimensions of every metalanguage: The syntactic, semantic and pragmatic dimensions. We might have had the conscious purpose of …
La Cultura nos Salva by modisti This kind of sample is made from innumerables points of view, the thrill produced by living in a medium which is generaly highly mediated by ideologies and unshared forms and the excitement produced on the other hand by creating a daily living full of interchangeable personal guarantes, with full …
Casa de Misericordia by modisti Inspirado en textos de Samuel Becket sobre los lugares en los que se recluye a aquellos que resultan incapaces de integrarse en el modelo social propuesto 1990-91 Inspired by texts of Samuel Becket on the places in which one shuts in to that they are incapable to integrate itself in …
l'infinito by modisti Based in the poem “L’Infinito” by Giacomo Leopardi The first time we play this piece in public, we did for a rude Dutch farmer who worked alongside our vegetable garden in Alicante in 1984. When the song ended began to mourn bitterly, and that was the best ovation that we ever had. …