Trajectory: ϙue (quad live, Lisbon, PT + Panel Discussion
All Music Is Background Music Now: Panel Discussion + Live Sets
November 5 · 6-9 p.m.
Theodora Extra, Zamora 85, Barcelona
Limited seats. Register to reserve your spot.
Music has become the soundtrack to everything, from scrolling and working to commuting and sleeping. What happens to listening, and to sound as an art form, when all music is background music?
Join us for an evening of conversation and live performance in Barcelona, bringing together artists, coders, musicologists, and thinkers working at the crossroads of web3, AI, creative coding, sound art, and digital media art.
Panel Discussion - START 19-00
All Music Is Background Music Now, drawing on the Post-Ambient Manifesto by Vlady Che. The panel explores how ambient listening, algorithmic curation, and new technologies are reshaping how we make, hear, and value sound.
Panelists - Vlady Che, naraisneus, ninety-fourth
Vlady Che - is a classically trained musician from Kyïv, Ukraine, whose individual musical path was initiated in 2016 by repudiating the strictness of conservative music frames. https://structurefromsilence.com/%CF%99
nara is neus — aka Neus Abellan — is a physicist, musician and producer of ambient music and soundtracks from Barcelona. https://nara-is-neus.com/about
ninety-fourth - Sound and music new mixed media https://ninety-fourth.com/
Live Performances - START 19-45
ϙue — quadraphonic live set, Lisbon PT, + secret guest
Halifax Jr — hybrid live set, BCN
Hum-Ag0g — live set, BCN
ϙue is the sound project of Vlady Che, a Kyiv-born, Lisbon-based artist working with spatial audio, expressive controllers, biofeedback and the electricity of everything alive. His works moved between underground and institutional platforms like raster, Nuits Sonores, ∄ K41, and SHAPE+, among others. ϙue’s latest LP «TIME» with Comechelet made A Closer Listen's best Ukrainian music of 2024.
He is a sound curator of Biorhythm, a cross-sensory organisation working with sound x body x technology. This year, it joined a pan-European consortium with Smalltown Supersound, Field Records, Refuge Worldwide, Kiosk Radio and Radio Dopo, building education programmes fostering the European independent music scene. Vlady is also the author of the post-ambient manifesto, which we'll pull apart on the panel the same night.
Who it's for: musicians, sound and media artists, developers, researchers, musicologists, and anyone curious about the future of listening.
Presented by
Ninety-Fourth, an independent new media platform focused on sound and culture
Biorhythm, a cross-sensory semiotic organisation
Trajectory Ltd., a UK-based non-profit organisation focused on tech, culture, and human development
Theodora Extra, a cultural association based in Barcelona
Artwork by Juan Issa
Typography by Kyiv Type Foundry