Interview by Galiza Ano Cero in which we talk about of some of our projects and the scene of art and culture.
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Cuerpo Astral in musical magazines
You can find us as Cuerpo Astral in the printed edition of Mondo Sonoro and Rock de Luxe of this month.
We leave you the entire interview that Fernando Fernández Rego made us.
Why Cuerpo Astral?
It comes from a verse of a theme: "you have a brutal body, an astral body". It was fun. Then the meanings came, but they are not especially important. In any case we are like a single thing that is a sum of several.
How does the group arise?
The three of us had known each other for years, sharing stages in the Galician scene.
Iñaki and Vane we have the band Os Gru and we appreciated the trajectory of Lúa that reminded us so much of Fátima Miranda! We had a lot of geometry and tastes in common. We already did some collaboration in "Ai Ruada".
The thing was
coming, and in one of those, Lua was looking for Kefir of water in
facebook, and we had plenty of it, so we stayed to give it, and it was
when the project appeared.
In your music, although electronic music predominates, you mix all types of styles: copla, folk, hip hop, pop, reggaetón ... even live you have a staging of theater, cabaret ... What are your influences? Is your sound fully defined already?
Our influences are all that happens around, and in space in general. Anything is susceptible of being material. We think of collage and image format. The three of us studied Fine Arts, and that ends up being noticed, for example in the way of composing or solving on the stage. There are also groups like Mecano, Parchís, Peor Imposible, Chico y
Chica or Hidrogenesse, which have a lot to do with our way of
understanding music and the scene.
We have reflected a lot on our sound, and we have been molding it as if it were a sculptural material. We have used laser cutter, an anvil and a hammer.
We have reflected a lot on our sound, and we have been molding it as if it were a sculptural material. We have used laser cutter, an anvil and a hammer.
Lúa, who is a commercial
DJ, knows the mainstream music by heart, so we do not stop updating
ourselves on types of sounds and perishable tendencies. Since
the beginning of the internet we have not stopped researching
electronic music that has ended up being present in almost all genres,
in that wave lately we have coincided in things like Omniboi or Ehirobo. On
the other hand we also love to rummage in the past, Raimond Scott, all
the development of electronic dance to DubStep, or the sound of Lola
Flores and oldschool recordings are some of the multiple references of
the kind of sound we like.
Your
first record "La primera vez" (The First Time) (Ferror, 2016) is a USB card full of
surprises ... Are you so eccentric and original in everything? How did the idea come about?
It is a surprise envelope with many things and a usb card.
We had already done things like that, we love limited editions and that each person win a different thing. We love to personalize and tune with love and mischief.
We wanted to play with the idea of oracle, and with handing out small humble spaceships loaded with power.
Yes, we are eccentric and original, what is going to do. x_x *_* o_o
Why usb? The usb is the door of the present, we like to be pinched on the TV, in the car, to be pinched by the vein. As Jessi Bulbo says "I'll get to your house and you'll see, so saving your records will not be able to".
What is the closest future of Cuerpo Astral?
Now we are going to be presenting the album "La primera vez". We have a lot of ideas parked, many of them will be coming out, others are now unfeasible because we do not have the means, if someone put them on it would be a non-stop.
Digital tools for networking
We were sharing our knowledge about digital tools for networking.
It was in the "Course of university expert in Cultural Mangement" of the USC _Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
We already gave this workshop in the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, so we have updated and improved it.
The contents we address are:
_ Basic operation on some digital tools.
_ Guidelines for forming and articulating a working group.
_ Methodologies of online and offline meetings.
_ Guidelines for decision-making.
_ Group crisis management.
In this document you can see the minutes of the class that was taken jointly between students and teachers.
On October 29, we will do this workshop again in A Coruña, within the activities of CoruñaDixital. It is free and some places are open.
Find out and sign up here
Node of Galician initiatives #decrece2016
The node of Galician initiatives is an activity framed within the Encuentro Transición Decrecimiento 2016 that will be celebrate in Betanzos during the days 29, 30 and 31 of October.
All the info and registrations at https://transiciondecrecimiento2016.wordpress.com/
This node or workgroup intends to group people of Galician initiatives related to the transition and to the decrease in the broadest sense. The objectives are: to know and place each other. To share knowledge and experiences, problems and solutions, failures and sucesses. And to strengthen and to hatch networks of initiatives.
The dynamics that we want to implement are:
1) Presentation and mapping of local initiatives.
Each participant will present itself (sucesses and failures) and will be mapped saying "what he knows how to do /what he wants to learn".
2) Problems and solutions. Dynamic in that we will play to find problems or common concerns and possible solutions.
3) To activate a possible time bank, possible collaborations and network projects. To activate calendars for winter activities.
4) Presentation of results to the rest of the meeting participants. (10 minutes)
We have to ride between all!
Confirm your attendance and bring things.
RuralC at the II Encuentro Cultura y Ciudadanía
During the days 13 and 14 of October 2016 we were in the II Encuentro Cultura Ciudadanía
In 2016 the the Meeting focuses on a polyhedral reality, with multiple semantic drifts: the TERRITORY. This necessarily includes the sphere of the local, but it also implies a relational dimension that emphasizes the exchanges, negotiations, intersections and flows that occur or strike in a given cultural space. Beyond the city or municipality, culture is also expressed through spaces of encounter and fabrics of relationships that surpass and transcend the strictly local. Peers as center-periphery, global-local or urban-rural reject any absolute or antagonistic character, and appear rather as ambiguous and polysemic realities, in constant redefinition, based not so much on defining attributes as on relations and processes. Territory is also a flexible reality in spatial and symbolic terms, which can be expanded or contracted according to specific moments, circumstances and interests.
The meeting was articulated as a dynamic forum with presentations and interventions of 10/15 minutes of about 200 projects. Also themed tables and performances. Our presentation was inside the table Rural Urban Dialogues, Global Local, moderated by Fernando Bayona.We told the origins of the RuralC association and some of the projects we have development, contributing our vision of how we think culture could help to face the challenges that are presented to the rural.
Here we leave the slide of our presentation:
We also leave you some of the notes, tweets and projects presented:
Notes/tweets:
_ Facilitate processes and not events. (Alfredo _Fundación Cerezales)
_ Understand rural times and work from the rural.
_ That the state guarantees the autonomy of the commons. (Lucas_Zemos98)
_ To understand the playful way of making a city.
_ Making objects as an excuse to make community.
_ Social challenges from scientific questions (@CCiutadana)
Projecto:
Fundación Cerezales and its "Terriotorio Archivo", a project to learn a lot from the rural initiatives.
Katakrak is defined as a political enterprise, the time of work is dedicated to social transformation.
It develops on a library and as it is ordered around cross-sections such as: body, ecology, feminisms or geopolitics to become a space that generates community.
With a canteen that establishes relationships around products of closeness and organic production, with prices varying according to your purchasing level.
Carles presented us Les Falles Populars i Combatives, a proposal for an open and self-organized party born in 2002, the result of the combined work of various groups of the city of Valencia. They have been consolidated as a space in which to recover the popular spirit of the fallas, giving life to the squares, the solar (through the Xunta Solar Fallera) and the networks. During
his presentation he reminded us how National Catholicism instrumented
these popular festivals of a critical nature, such as the left and the
libertarian movements reneged during decades of this party that belonged
to them, and how gradually the self-management of the feast is recovered
from the communities and outside of institutions and multinationals.
Alberto presented us El recetario a platform that freely shares documentation and manuals on constructive solutions for Habitat from Waste (Hábitat a partir de Residuos).
Fernando presented us the Festival de Video Creative Commons, A festival that has been replicated by different cities, and that you can also copy. It began with
the Creative Commons licenses and has become a space for dialogue,
knowledge and defense of Free Culture and audiovisual as a tool for
criticism and transformation of our environment.
María Lobo and Roi presented us Rec Think. A web-doc with young people from rural areas in process of depopulation in four European countries. It seeks to involve them in a process to re-think and redefine their role in the future of these localities. Participatory video is the methodology used.
They release the code of all their methodology, offering Guides on the implementation of innovative strategies that promote the participation of young people in rural environments, on Participatory Video or on the promotion of transversal competences in rural environments.
We leave you a video of this project, which reflects the number of problems we face from the rural:
+ Photo album of the meeting by José Jurado _ RuralC on facebook.
We do not want to forget about the intense performance "Viva La guerra" Postverdiales, from the collective LOOPAI.
In 2016 the the Meeting focuses on a polyhedral reality, with multiple semantic drifts: the TERRITORY. This necessarily includes the sphere of the local, but it also implies a relational dimension that emphasizes the exchanges, negotiations, intersections and flows that occur or strike in a given cultural space. Beyond the city or municipality, culture is also expressed through spaces of encounter and fabrics of relationships that surpass and transcend the strictly local. Peers as center-periphery, global-local or urban-rural reject any absolute or antagonistic character, and appear rather as ambiguous and polysemic realities, in constant redefinition, based not so much on defining attributes as on relations and processes. Territory is also a flexible reality in spatial and symbolic terms, which can be expanded or contracted according to specific moments, circumstances and interests.
The meeting was articulated as a dynamic forum with presentations and interventions of 10/15 minutes of about 200 projects. Also themed tables and performances. Our presentation was inside the table Rural Urban Dialogues, Global Local, moderated by Fernando Bayona.We told the origins of the RuralC association and some of the projects we have development, contributing our vision of how we think culture could help to face the challenges that are presented to the rural.
Here we leave the slide of our presentation:
We also leave you some of the notes, tweets and projects presented:
Notes/tweets:
_ Facilitate processes and not events. (Alfredo _Fundación Cerezales)
_ Understand rural times and work from the rural.
_ That the state guarantees the autonomy of the commons. (Lucas_Zemos98)
_ To understand the playful way of making a city.
_ Making objects as an excuse to make community.
_ Social challenges from scientific questions (@CCiutadana)
Projecto:
Fundación Cerezales and its "Terriotorio Archivo", a project to learn a lot from the rural initiatives.
Katakrak is defined as a political enterprise, the time of work is dedicated to social transformation.
It develops on a library and as it is ordered around cross-sections such as: body, ecology, feminisms or geopolitics to become a space that generates community.
With a canteen that establishes relationships around products of closeness and organic production, with prices varying according to your purchasing level.
Alberto presented us El recetario a platform that freely shares documentation and manuals on constructive solutions for Habitat from Waste (Hábitat a partir de Residuos).
They release the code of all their methodology, offering Guides on the implementation of innovative strategies that promote the participation of young people in rural environments, on Participatory Video or on the promotion of transversal competences in rural environments.
We leave you a video of this project, which reflects the number of problems we face from the rural:
+ Photo album of the meeting by José Jurado _ RuralC on facebook.
Mobile equipment of honey extraction
It is a documentary about the work of extracting honey in October 2016.
A small team of three people is involved in beekeeping in different houses and places in the region of Betanzos and Eume in Galicia.It tell us how the yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina) is affecting the production of honey in this region. It shows the transfer of intergenerational knowledge about beekeeping and the social and cultural recovery of community work.
Presentation Dio3stu in Galicia Maker Faire
We leave you some photos and a video of the performance of Dio3stu in Galicia Maker Faire / Maker Faire Galicia, Santiago de Compostela.
Dio3stu's performance in Maker Faire Galicia
On Saturday, 1st of October , at 16:00 p.m. we will perform at Maker Faire Galicia as Dio3stu.Our presentation/performance will consist in explain what is the circuit bending and show the operation of different machines made with this technique.
Circuit-bending is a type of electronic art that bases its procedures on the creative short-circuit. This art form represents a catalytic force in the exploration of sound material capable of creating new musical forms at an unknown speed. This technique is undoubtedly the simplest way of designing instruments, sculptures or electronic installations.
The approximate duration is 1 hour, and we will articulate it in 3 parts.
The first part is didactic, we explain basically the circuit bending technique
The second part is to invite a small group of people from the public to interact with different machines, guiding them to explore its possibilities openly and intuitively. We will mount a "tactile shepherd" on the spot, a device that consists of several strings that, when you play them, or touch the people who are playing them, produce sounds. It is what we call "body-contact", processes in which our body acts as variable resistance. We will also invite volunteers to relate to other types of variable resistances such as photosensitive cells.
The third part is musical and consists of playing three or four pieces / songs with different devices, instruments and machines of Dio3stu.
Preparing the meeting of Transition and Decrease 2016 _ Betanzos
This year the Encuentro estatal de Transición y Decrecimiento 2016 is celebrated in Betanzos during the days 29, 30 and 31 of October.
We are in the local team with members of Véspera de Nada, RuralC, Resilience Center Pousadoira, Seed Network and Grupo de Consumo de Betanzos.
Coordinating with Red de transición estatal.
The event will be open and free, although it has a previous registration, which will help us to specify the number of attendees and reserved meals.
You can also register a proposal of workshop, if you want to share your knowledge.
You can follow the news about the programme and the inscriptions at the event in Facebook.
Designs for Histagra
We designed the posters for the Congress: 1936, Un novo relato? 80 anos entre historia y memoria
and the exhibition 80 anos. Santiago 1936 , organized by Histagra, Grupo de Historia Agraria e Política do Mundo Rural of the USC Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.
Also both brochures.
The most curious of the matter is that we were invited to follow the trail of Isaac Díaz Pardo, who had designed a logo for the initial project.
We also left an image that was discarded:
and the exhibition 80 anos. Santiago 1936 , organized by Histagra, Grupo de Historia Agraria e Política do Mundo Rural of the USC Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.
Also both brochures.
The most curious of the matter is that we were invited to follow the trail of Isaac Díaz Pardo, who had designed a logo for the initial project.
Posters:
Cuerpo Astral in Atardeceres no Gaiás 2016
Last 11 of August we act with Cuerpo Astral
within the programming of Atardeceres no Gaiás 2016
at Cidade da Cultura of Santiago de Compostela .
We leave you some pictures of the performance made by
Raúl Abeledo:
El Tornado y los amanerados
We have re-edited some themes of El Tornado y los amanerados
It was composed and recorded in Valencia in 2005.
It was remastered in 2016.
Voice: Graham Bell Tornado
Guitar and choirs: Iñaki López
Flute and choirs: Borja Penalba
It was composed and recorded in Valencia in 2005.
It was remastered in 2016.
Voice: Graham Bell Tornado
Guitar and choirs: Iñaki López
Flute and choirs: Borja Penalba
Current state of our machines
We still working with two Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook, from 2007 and 2009.
As for the software there is an insurmountable obstacle that is the update of the operating system.
On the computer on which we wrote this, it is no longer possible to install a version 10.8 of the MacOSx system, so we can not install many programs and updates.
For the moment, with the arrangements we have made, we are pulling without problems, we edit audiovisual, surf the internet, do graphic design and layout.
As for the hardware we have had to repair several parts and components:
A fan. The Inverter cable, which feeds the screen. Twice the UpperCase Cable, which connects the keyboard to the motherboard. All these cables have cost between € 4 and € 20.
We have also changed hard drives for new SSDs.
In this last
repair of the UpperCase Cable we have taken advantage of to do a
keyboard tuning, thanks to the piece given to us by our colleague
Pablinho.
Recycling always!
As for the software there is an insurmountable obstacle that is the update of the operating system.
On the computer on which we wrote this, it is no longer possible to install a version 10.8 of the MacOSx system, so we can not install many programs and updates.
For the moment, with the arrangements we have made, we are pulling without problems, we edit audiovisual, surf the internet, do graphic design and layout.
As for the hardware we have had to repair several parts and components:
A fan. The Inverter cable, which feeds the screen. Twice the UpperCase Cable, which connects the keyboard to the motherboard. All these cables have cost between € 4 and € 20.
We have also changed hard drives for new SSDs.
Recycling always!
Images for the Super Voto
Some images we have prepared for the graphic campaign of el supervoto, the green vote, for the elections of #26J.
Sobres sorpresa "La primera vez"
We present you the limited edition of 100 copies of the LP "La primera vez" of Cuerpo Astral
A gargle with your number within the limited series of 100 copies.A branch of rosemary blessed by Our Lady of the Sacred Peak in the last alienation of even planets.A sticker ofrecord label of the planet Earth that bets for us.
- Credits and Lyrics in .PDF format
- Video clip of the song "Todo es malo"
May contain traces of random surprises and star dust.
You can buy it in:
In this envelope you will find:
fruit of the erosion of oceanic ranges.
card with your alter ego in a fantastic character.
of our best cupletists' petticoats of the last century.
A marble with the water element of
A marble with the water element of
A 1GB USB stick containing:
with its 10 songs in .WAV format
- Video clip of the song "Todo es malo"
You can buy it in:
Videocollage "Rave en el Pico Sacro", song from the album "La primera vez" of Cuerpo Astral.
Rave en el Pico Sacro _Cuerpo Astral from fur alle falle on Vimeo.
Rave en el Pico Sacro _Cuerpo Astral from fur alle falle on Vimeo.
Rap workshop. Día das Letras Galegas 2016
We bring some images of last 17th of May, at Cidade da Cultura, in Santiago de Compostela.
We did a rap workshop with children and show the results of the workshop in a recital in honor of Manuel María.
More info on previous post announcing this event.
Photos by Manuel G. Vicente.
We did a rap workshop with children and show the results of the workshop in a recital in honor of Manuel María.
More info on previous post announcing this event.
Photos by Manuel G. Vicente.
Poetry and Rap workshop. Día das Letras Galegas 2016
Cidade da Cultura in Santiago organizes a collective recital on 17 May on the occassion of day of Letras Galegas 2016, in addition to voicing some poems by Manuel María, we cab enjoy with the live sound of Koroiev (Roberto Casteleiro) and DSK (Juan Lesta y Belén Montero) visual creations.
Before the recital we´ll do a Poetry and Rap workshop from 8 years, in which we´ll teach the basic guidelines for rapping and we´ll make our own creations based on verses of Manuel María. The result of this workshop will be a performance during the collective recital.
Admission is free but you must register in advance: + info
Pictures of the workshop in the post of results.
Song: Cando fai xeada
Popular/traditional Galician song
from the series of manierismo galaico brasileiro.
from the series of manierismo galaico brasileiro.
Active occupation of the Montes do Cha, in Ferrol.
We were working as montenoso
(project that energizes and make visible the communal lands from
Galicia) with Montes do Cha Association of the local community of Brion and San Roman de Doniños in Ferrol.
This community fight for decades for the reappropriation of communal lands that the dictatorship took away.
We were helping in coordinating the event, designing posters and banners, and filming and editing audiovisual.
We leave you the material generated for campaign:
PAD de trabajo: https://montenoso.titanpad.com/103
Video documental de la acción:
This community fight for decades for the reappropriation of communal lands that the dictatorship took away.
We were helping in coordinating the event, designing posters and banners, and filming and editing audiovisual.
We leave you the material generated for campaign:
PAD de trabajo: https://montenoso.titanpad.com/103
Video documental de la acción:
making a planting of native trees
Group dynamics and tools for networking.
On the last 1st of March we were teaching a workshop of "Group dynamics and tools for networking" in the Master de Gestión Cultural of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
http://www.mastergestioncultural.eu/profesores_ficha.php…
http://www.mastergestioncultural.eu/profesores_ficha.php…
DigiCollage
Digicollage are a series of digital collages made in an Ipad, with the apps Sketches and PicsArts. Images that we publish on social networks:
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and ELLO
We leave here some of them:
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