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LA PEDRERA: GRANADOS MOVEMENTS. Spettacolo interattivo di Xavi Bové 12 febbraio
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An unusual self-produced show Friday February 12, at 7pm and 8.30pm, specially designed for La Pedrera and directed by Xavi Bové, in which pieces by Enric Granados are visually represented by analysing the sound of the instruments played live and the movements of the conductor. A show on the façade of La Pedrera harmoniously linking light, music and architecture. It is also tribute to the great Catalan composer Enric Granados in the context of the celebrations for the centenary of his death. The spectacle is a participatory interactive experience too, as, after each show, the audience can take the conductor’s place and make La Pedrera “move” with the interaction of the movements of their bodies and the light projected on the façade.

An amazing, innovative interactive and artistic experience using technology that also plays with the physical textures of Gaudí’s architecture. In this way, for the second year running, Catalunya-La Pedrera Foundation is joining in with the LLUM BCN Festival, a circuit of light installations bringing together tradition, art and technology taking place during the festival of Saint Eulalia. The show is being organised with a view to putting an artistic event that makes the most of the heritage Barcelona has from Gaudí back on the city’s calendar of cultural activities. This ground-breaking show is in line of the foundation’s projects to promote creative research and support musical talent.

CASA MILÀ “LA PEDRERA”

Passeig de Gràcia, 92. 08008, Barcelona.

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XAVI BOVÉ Artistic director

Xavi Bové, Lleida, 1978. With a technical education as a telecommunications engineer he very soon made the leap to artistic expression, always seeking to build bridges between artistic disciplines, largely visual and musical ones. In the process he has directed many live opera performances, concerts and recitals at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; artistically directed stage shows music groups (pop, rock and electronica); created advertisements, videos and pieces of video art and directed showings live projections for musical events on unconventional surfaces, such as trees, light aircraft, cars, balloons, etc.

He is artistic director of FIMG, the Girona International Mapping Festival. Besides this, he is constantly researching the relationship between emotions and mathematics, as well as stimuli and the senses: the well-known synesthetic effect.

His projects have brought him a long list of prizes and awards, like best international DVD of the year for the opera Le Grand Macabre, presented by the French critics. He has recently been awarded second prize at the Girona International Mapping Festival for his work “El cicle de la vida” (The life cycle) of music and images in real time.

www.xavibove.com

 

Credits:

Project:  Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera
Artistic director: Xavi Bové
Violin: Joel Bardolet
Cello: Oriol Prat
Piano: Carles Marigó
Musical director: Raúl Patiño
Visuals production:  Playmodes
Technical manager: Eloi Maduell
Application architecture: Miquel A. Soler
Visuals: Nacho Cossío
Movement: Eduard Frigola
Audio analysis: Eduard Frigola, Miquel A. Soler
Sound design: Santi Vilanova
Graphics: Gerard Vallverdú
2D models: Marta Barnolas
Technical team: BLOCK

Acknowledgements:

ESMUC and ICUB

Interview to Xavi Bové, artistic director of FIMG, International Mapping Festival in Girona
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My interview in Girona to the musician, engeneer and artistic director Xavi Bové. Xavi Bové’s career has been focused on the relationship between visual and musical disciplines, specialized in live events.

Born in Lleida (Spain) in 1978, he is an image and sound engineer, and widened his studies with a video direction postgraduate and a master on digital audiovisual creation. Along his seven years as an OPERA VIDEO DIRECTOR of more than 30 titles in Gran Teatre del Liceu Opera House in Barcelona, he has been exploring different ways to show the opera drama in audiovisual language, giving the audience the chance to enjoy opera in a cinematographic way, and acquiring big international opera panorama knowledge. He has directed live broadcastings for TV, Internet and Cinemas worldwide in High Definition, and also the first 3D opera live broadcasting in Spain. Several titles are available on DVD worldwide under high quality labels such as Virgin Classics, DECCA, Arthaus-Musik, C-Major, Opus Arte, Unitel, TDK and Euroarts.

Xavi has directed VIDEO MAPPING projects, applied over different kind of surfaces, such as buildings, trees, planes, balloons or bodies, and is the ARTISTIC DIRECTOR of FIMG, International Mapping Festival in Girona (www.fimg.cat).

He has been commissioned for creating ARTISTIC CORPORATE and ADVERTISING CLIPS combining the needs of companies with a sensitive approach.

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He has been art director for live concerts creating LIVE VISUALS and combining stage design, video-creation and mapping techniques, for bands such as Fon Roman, Guillamino and dÉbruit, and for festivals such as Connexions and DeProp.

Xavi Bové is responsible of the visual area on ENVOLVENT, an events promoter and communication/booking agency specialized in electronic music and visual arts, with a weekly radio program (www.envolvent.com). And is also co-founder of FAVOLA IN MVSICA, which aims to give high-quality solutions both for live broadcasting and creative video recording and post-production, mainly focused on classical music.

For MUSIC FESTIVALS he has been the director of live broadcasting and live internet streaming for SONAR Festival and Summercase Music Festival. He has directed MUSIC VIDEOS for electronic and pop bands, (Undo, Maurice Aymard, Gui Boratto, The Moustaches,…) and was the cinematographer for a music video for the Berlin Fashion Week. He has also directed live music concerts recordings for DVDs, such as for the rock musicians Bunbury & Vegas. He also plays tunes as aMUSIC SELECTOR for special events under the name of HERR BOVE offering Vintage and Electronic Sets.

Cycle of Life”,  Prize for innovation, International Videomapping Festival in Girona (FIMG). Selected at V International Congress Synesthesia, Science & Art 2015. Interactive Videmapping from live performed classical music.

In CINEMA, Xavi Bové has directed documentaries about music such as “Music of Shapes” about new musical theories by Raúl Quílez; he has been the second unit director of the documentary film “Llach, la revolta permanent” by Lluis Danés about the life of a Catalan singer; he directed the recording of “Tranuites”, a visual theatre and circus project; and he also directed more than 10 shortfilms, including the film festivals selected “Eine Neue Nachricht” (fiction), “Requiem für eine Tanne” (video creation),  “Mala Sombra” (fiction) and “Viure al mar” (documentary). He worked as art director on “Final”.

He TEACHES seminaries and master’s classes about relations between music and image, for institutions such as La Salle University and EMAV audiovisual school in Barcelona. He also worked for three years as a workshops and films curator for the REC Film Festival (Tarragona). Xavi has lived and worked in Barcelona, London and Berlin and nowadays is based in Girona (Spain).

Currently he is working on different projects that bridge these art disciplines, combining his experience and knowledge and playing with the experimentation of languages, formats and interactivity.

In the interview he speaks about CYCLE of LIFE, his interactive videomapping Prize for innovation, Girona Festival. Selected at V International Congress Synesthesia, Science & Art 2015. Interactive Videmapping from live performed classical music.

Girona mapping Festival-FIMG 2015
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From the site http://projection-mapping.org/fimg-2nd-international-mapping-festival-in-girona/

The second International Mapping Festival will take place in Girona, Spain from July 30th to August 2nd, including the first ever International Mapping Congress and a mapping competition

 

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Girona will host the 2nd edition of the International Mapping Festival (FIMG) from 30 July to 2 August. The city of Girona will become the international centre of mapping for four days. The Festival aims to reveal the high artistic level of the discipline by bringing together artists and professionals from across the sector.The festival is open to all and links the cultural legacy of Girona with contemporary creativity through innovation and the audiovisual arts.

The 2015 edition maintains the same structure as the previous year: between Friday 31 July and Sunday 2 August, the International Mapping Competition will see the shortlisted artistic works projected onto some of the well-known façades of the city, while the 1st International Mapping Congress will be held from Thursday 30 July to Saturday 1 August, when professionals from the sector will gather to discuss and talk about their work.

The theme of FIMG 2015: contradictions


From this year on, the Festival will focus on a particular theme. The theme of the 2015 edition is contradictions. The objective is to encourage projects that explore many possible aspects of the theme, and to suggest a frame for artistic and cultural activity.

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New category: micro-mapping


This edition of the festival will also increase the number of spaces and works, setting up a trail across the city between buildings of historical and contemporary significance. The festival App will serve as a guide to this trail.

The Porta dels Apòstols entrance to the Cathedral and the Pont de Pedra [the stone bridge], will be the setting for projects specially commissioned by the Festival that will be shown every day of the Festival and which will also showcase a large amount of Catalan talent.

The International Mapping Competition will include a new category, micro-mapping, which is intended for smaller indoor spaces (such as hotel or museum foyers, stores and shops), and there will be two awards voted by the general audience.

International Mapping Competition (31 July to 2 August)


The inscription period for the International Mapping Competition closes on 20 April. There are four categories: Professional, which is aimed at artists and professionals of the visual arts, music and fine arts, who do not work exclusively with mapping; Amateur, aimed at anyone who wants to take their first steps in the field of mapping; Micro-mapping, a new competitive category intended for smaller interior spaces; and educational, which is aimed at schools and high schools in Girona.

The spaces for the professional competition will be the façade of the Town Hall, the façade of Casa Pastors and the Law Courts; the amateur works will be displayed on the façade of the Pont d’en Gómez building; while the educational works will be projected onto the Les Àligues building (Sant Domènec) and the micro-mapping will be shown in various spaces. There are two prizes for each category, which range from 12,000 euros for the 1st prize in the Professional category, to 500 euros for 2nd prize in Educational. The prizes shall be awarded by a jury. This year for the first time, the Festival will have two more prizes awarded by the public: The Audience Façade Prize (1,000 euros) and the Audience Micro-mapping Prize (500 euros).

The jury will judge the entries on originality, innovation, musical and visual style, the financial and logistical viability of the proposal and its relevance to the building.

Anyone wishing to take part must register at www.fimg.cat.

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International Mapping Congress (30 July to 1 August)


Girona will host the 1st International Mapping Congress between 30 July and 1 August. This is a forum bringing together the foremost European professionals in order to convert Girona into a global hub and benchmark for this discipline. A space where artists, programmers, professionals and tech companies can meet and discuss the mapping industry. The programme for the Congress will be announced soon.

Xavi Bové, the artistic director, has joined the team at FIMG 2015 to supervise the quality of the contents and to programme the 1st International Mapping Congress. FIMG 2015 has also added a communications director who will manage the promotion and impact of the festival.

The Girona Mapping Festival is a Girona City Council initiative with the collaboration of BLOOM.