UTOPIA 126 by UTOPIA 126

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
https://soundcloud.com/the-sunflower-band/fruit-bowl

RE-AR - Ariadna Parreu
https://youtu.be/_HbEejSqE9Y

MI-CA - Carlos Valverde
https://mattoid.bandcamp.com/track/no-pito-listo

FA-PA - Claudia Pagés
https://m.soundcloud.com/claudiapages/04-folly

SOL-E - Ethan Hayes-Chute
https://youtu.be/tPiaduBZHRU

LA-EU - Eulàlia Rovira
https://youtu.be/lTHckSzjNaE

SI-GE - Gerard Ortin
VID_20171202_120237.mp4

DO-QUI - Quim Packard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3IdD4hOcTs


Cover picture by Ángela Palacios.