PLANT/HUMAN Duo (Mirian Kolev) – live performance
ANGEL – dj set
Saturday, 3.05 7pm @ SIMULTANorg / Plan Zero / Zumzet
Dimitrie Bolintineanu, 1, (former Elba) Timișoara
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Plant/Human Duo is a concert in which sounds are generated from different plants. The project seeks the relationship between different plant vibrations and aesthetic sound results. Using devices and sensors attached to plant leaves, their biorhythms are converted into sound and further manipulated using real- time sound effects.
There is research in the field of bioacoustics that deals with electrical signals flowing through plants and converting them into sound waves. But the aim of this project is not only to convert these signals into sound, but to give a sonic aesthetic to all this generative organic electronic music and to show how humans and plants can interact and become part of a common “orchestra”.
This project also aims to show how technology can allow us to better understand and interact with our environment. In times of technological progress and deepening ecological crisis, it is very important to find the balance between technology and nature, and that they integrate into each other instead of opposing each other.
Mirian Kolev is а musician, composer and multidisciplinary artist, who lives in the Mountain of Bulgaria and works in experimental, electroacoustic, ambient, improvisational music sphere and sound art.
His music is minimalist, atmospheric and discreetly psychedelic, and improvisation is an essential part of each of his live performances, turning it into an expressive soundtrack of time and space. At times his music is gloomy, at times cosmic, and melancholy is often present in it, as is the world around him.
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Angel’s passion about music began back in the 80’s while watching and listening to recorded shows from MTV and MusicBox on Serbian television. At the end of the 90’s he bought himself his first pair of turntables, a mixer and his first records. Since then, he plays constantly at parties and festivals from soulful house to broken beats, and from techno and breakbeats, to acid flavoured electro. His sets will take you to a deep musical journey from the mid 90’s ’til nowadays.