Dio3stu in The Fab Linkage

Last Saturday, April 1, 2017 Iñaki performed in Madrid his presentation-performance of machines and instruments Dio3stu. Updating the set made in Galicia Maker Faire and RadicalDB Showcase.
The event was held at the Italian Embassy in Madrid, on the occasion of the presentation of works by groups of Spanish and Italian makers working under the project The Fab Linkage.
We left some musical moments on video:

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.

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.

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!