Delta Listening: Angélica Castelló, Israel Martinez, RE#SISTER, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Delta Listening – Friday 11 July
WORM presents a night of listening differently with performances by Angélica Castelló, Israel Martinez, and RE#SISTER, with an opening reading by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay.
About the artists
Sound artist and composer Angélica Castelló (b. Mexico City, 1972) writes for her own instruments (mainly the Paetzold subgreatbass recorder, with and without electronics) and for ensembles. She has also composed radio works, and installations that operate at the interface of music, performance and visual arts.
Recordings of her own instruments serve as the raw material for pieces in which she edits the sounds of her flutes, sometimes beyond recognition, and combines them with deformed fragments of other elements — be they electronically produced or found elsewhere — to a musical entity in which multiple layers overlap. She weaves existing pieces of other composers into contemporary forms of electronic processing, thereby referencing her work as an interpreter of early music.
Her sound work and compositions concentrate on fragility and the subconscious. While she remains devoted to early music, new and electroacoustic music take center stage. Her compositions address the subjects of our more-than-human cohort, such as the animal world: beasts from literature, the animal kingdom, and daily life in “Bestario” (2011); and the ecosystem of the waters around Lofoten Island in “Sonic Blue” (2015), among others.
Israel Martínez (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1979) is an artist who works from sound to different media such as video, photography, text, publications, installation, actions and interventions in public spaces, with the aim of generating diverse social and political reflections in a critical way, and often exploring the stealth as a pertinent communicational tool.
Creditor in 2007 of a Distinction Award in Prix Ars Electronica, has exhibited individually and collectively in MACBA, MuseumsQuartier, Moscow Biennial, daadgalerie, Haus Fur Elektronische Kunste Basel, Cultural Mission Center for Latin Arts, MUAC, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Museo Arte Carrillo Gil, MAZ, among other museums or spaces mainly in Europe and Mexico. In 2012 and 2017 he has been part of the Artists in Berlin Program from DAAD, and in 2014 of the MuseumsQuartier’s residence program in Vienna. He has published recordings and editorial work through Sub Rosa, Errant Bodies Press, Aagoo, The Wire, Hatje Cantz; and is co-founder of the record labels and collectives Abolipop and Suplex. He is currently a member of the National System of Art Creators in Mexico.
About Delta Listening
Delta Listening is a series of performance-based events, workshops and radio broadcasts that foreground listening as a creative and critical practice. Delta Listening brings together artists and researchers to reflect on the role listening plays in our relationships to each other and to our environments.
Convened by Brandon LaBelle and Ash Kilmartin, Delta Listening is named for Rotterdam’s location in the Rhine/Meuse/Scheldt delta, and the idea of listening as an agent of change: Delta being a symbol for variation. We invite audiences to listen for and with difference.
