Coming up:

AUGUST

 

 

 
 

August 29, 10 PM

la Noche de las Hachas 2025

Plaza de la Villa (Castielfabib, Spain)

Concert with Acuática

 

La Noche de las Hachas (“The Night of the Torches”) is a gathering of artists from different disciplines, and regional folklore. During this event the village of Castielfabib with less than 300 inhabitants easily triples its population. This year, the main theme is water.

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER

September 3-14:

KLANGMOORSCHOPFE (Gais, Switzerland)

 

Last Effort in the Countryside

“The work they are showing at Museum Gais is a further development of their series «Último Esfuerzo Rural». These are room-filling kinetic sound installations for which they use everyday objects found on site − in the case of Gais: metal containers ranging from milking buckets to watering cans. They arrange these found objects into whimsical ensembles, set them into vibration and create a surprising sound collage. They thus continue the series of works in which they transform the characteristics and history of objects that are characteristic of a region into a sculptural sound image.”

Text from the festival website

Former versions of Último esfuerzo Rural III-… at https://www.boschsimons.com/en/ultimo-esfuerzo-rural-iii-2017/

 

 

Already passed:

MAY

May 17

CISMA (Valencia, Spain)
Concert with Acuática

A vibrant, subtle, living sound installation that turned CISMA into an organism of water, air and resonance.

With full capacity, attendees experienced a unique aquatic concert, where sound was mixed live using hydrophones and air valves in a choreography of bubbles and vibrations.
Thanks to everyone who made it possible, and to Bosch & Simons for sharing their work, their sound, and their generosity.
Text from IG post  by @cisma.art

 

 

pictures by Claudia Tittel

Former versions of Acuática at

https://www.boschsimons.com/en/acuatica-2019/

 

 

May 11

Carob tree field (Bétera, Spain)

Onsite version of Bang Spring Time

Organised by CISMA

Here we built a new, manually operated, version of Bang Spring Time, designed for this unique site. Two wooden huts serve as resonance chambers for the sounds produced by long metal springs. On the other side of the springs, “El Modulito,” a glass cube, already present in the field, was used as a sound and viewing chamber. Inside the cube, the audience could listen to sounds captured with contact microphones, in addition to those audible in the space.

 

Pictures by Andrés Moriel Alcaide

Impression of the building-up by cisma on Instagram

Former versions of Bang Spring Time at https://www.boschsimons.com/en/bang-spring-time/

 

APRIL

April 19-28

Espacio Esparto (Chelva, Spain)

Mirlitones

At “Trenzar con arte en la periferia”

Exhibition with

Margreet Hajee: sculptures
@trendzadesign: compostable bags (an anthology)

filmed by Salvador Oltra

Former versions of Mirlitones at
https://www.boschsimons.com/mirlitones-2012-2013/

 

April 25

 

Entrevista en el canal de youtube Culturas Sonoras,

por José Iges 

 

April 4

EACC (Castellón, Spain)

Workshop
LABORATORIO DEL MUNDO VIBRANTE

(“LABORATORY OF THE VIBRANT WORLD”)

 

Participants in this workshop could intuitively explore the world of vibration and resonance by modifying and controlling robots/creatures mounted on metal springs that generate surprising movements and rhythms. The workshop ended with a small concert realised by the participants.

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER

 

September 28-29:

Partides Festival, Cambrils (Tarragona)

Ultim Esforç del Baix Camp

For the Partides Festival we created a new version within our Último Esfuerzo Rural III series in which we used a cauldron and six old agricultural sprayers, nowadays seen as objects with a certain aesthetic, appreciated by collectors, in great contrast to the not so pretty original purposes of these devices. A big change from previous versions was its outdoor location. A carob tree was used to hang the objects, giving the work a rural touch, more than ever. The biggest novelty was that, apart from the various concerts given during the festival, the public was able to manipulate the functioning of the work, sitting in an old chair with the air mixer at hand.

 

 

 

September 19-25:

ENSEMS, Palau de les Arts, Valencia

Acuática VII

Acuática VII was shown at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia during the festival of contemporary music ENSEMS.  Full programme of the festival. For previous versions of Acuática, see this page of our website.

 

 

 

AUGUST

 

AUGUST 17-25:

“Pisando agua, hierba y barro en la periferia”

Espacio Esparto

Acuática VI

Exhibition with Eugenia Boscá and Trendzadesign at Espacio Esparto in Chelva (Valencia), the village where we live. We have been showing a new version (VI) of Acuática. Previous versions of Acuática at this page of our website.

 

OCTOBER

 

October 11:

Concert with Aquàtica at Santa Mònica, Barcelona, in the series So I Cos, organised by BCN Impro Fest. A podcast about the concert can be found at Santa Mònica Ràdio:

More details of the podcast at our Instagram

The concert was followed by a performance by Adelaida Maresca.

 

 

SEPTEMBER

 

 

September 29-October 22:

On 29 September our project La Fábrica de Memorias was inaugurated at an abandoned convent in Forcall, Castelló, Spain. It consists of two installations and a video, inspired by a long tradition of espadrille production in Forcall and surroundings.

 

The exhibition was part of AVAN/03, together with exhibitions by Nora Ancarola in Viver, Maria Amparo Gomar in Geldo, Julio Jara in Vilanova d’Alcolea and Olga Diego in Villafranca.

 

JULY

July 17 until 23

Artist Residency at Forcall (Castelló), SPAIN, preparing an exhibition, planned to open September 29 in Forcall. The residency was part of AVAN/03, an initiative of Rafael Tormo Cuenca. During a week we spoke many people in Forcall and surrounding villages in order to learn more about the region’s once flourishing textile industry of the region, especially the production of espadrilles.

 

 

 

JUNE/JULY

 

 

Cantan un Huevo and a new version of Bang Spring Time  were shown at the Palacio Vizcondal, Plaza Mayor 13, Chelva (Valencia), SPAIN.

Opening: Friday June 30, 19:00 h. Until July 16.

Exhibition organised by Fundación María Antonia Clavel.

 

Pictures 1-4 are from the opening, 5-9 from a visit of the Chelvan Summer school.

website Fundación María Antonia Clavel

FB Fundación María Antonia Clavel

 

APRIL

April 2023 STAALPLAAT  released the LP “Three Music Machines” with sound recordings of three of our first installations. For sale, as LP, or in digital format, at https://staalplaatlabel.bandcamp.com/album/three-music-machines or contact us.

 

 

 

Krachtgever (1994-98)

 

recorded at Kunstschouw, Boerderij Oud Brabers,
Burghsluis, Netherlands, 2013

 

Cantan un Huevo (2000-2001)

 

 

recorded at SYNTHÈSE, Galeria La Box,

Bourges, France, 2003

 

 

Was der Wind zum Klingen bringt (1989-90)

 

 

MARCH

March 10-26 our installation Acuática was shown at La Casa de las Luces, Titaguas (Valencia), SPAIN.

 

images from the inauguration of “Acuática”, 10-03-2023
IG Casa de las Luces

 

NOVEMBER

“El Callejón del Ruido. Creación, ideas y tecnología. Resonancias e impacto (1994 – 2019)”.

November 2022 the Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico published the book “El Callejón del Ruido. Creación, ideas y tecnología. Resonancias e impacto (1994 – 2019)”. Editors: Roberto Morales Manzanares y Cynthia P. Villagómez Oviedo.

 

The Spanish version (with pictures) of our article Arrhythmia, the birth of a biomechanical machine can be found at pages 35-43 of the link  https://issuu.com/editoriaverano/docs/libro-electronico_el_callejon_del_ruido

For the English translation we refer to pages 283-286.

You will find the index of the book at page 8.

 

APRIL

Ecologies of Sound with Regard to Arrhythmia.

by Carmen Pardo Salgado

 

In Organised Sound, 27(1), 86-93 Carmen Pardo Salgado published an interesting article about our work Arrhythmia, a collaboration with Sergey Kostyrko: Ecology of Sound with Regard to Arrhythmia.

Theme of the issue: Commercial Music and Study of Electronic Music – Influence, Borrowings and Language.

 

PDF of the article

 

FEBRUARY

Migratones at

Inversia Festival, Murmansk, Russia,

2-6 February 2022

Interactions within digital environment

and worldwide spread communities

 

 

We never thought that a few weeks after Inversia the world would change so dramatically after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As long as the situation in Russia and Ukraine does not get to normal again Inversia will continue in a nomadic form outside the borders of Russia. See https://inversiafest.com/ You can find more about the Festival of 2022 at https://inversiafest.space/archive22/

 

 

Migratones is our third collaboration with Sergey Kostyrko (RU) after a workshop we realised in KKW, Leipzig (2016) and Arrhythmia, Halle (2019). Both former projects were curated by ArtSci Nexus.

 

In Migratones migration data of six different regions in Russia, processed by Sergey, control the air flow to each of the seven hanging mirlitons.  As in our former collaboration data are transformed into “real, organic sounds” instead of electronically produced sound, emitted with loudspeakers, a common practice in sound art.  Our contribution is largely based on our previous work Mirlitones. These organic sounds are combined with field recordings by Sergey from the Murmansk area, emitted from speakers, mounted in another set of hanging tubes. We recommend listening with good headphones or loudspeakers to experience the extremely low sound frequencies and their interferences.

The presentation of Migratones  is financially supported by AC/E, Spain.

December 2021:

Els temps de les Arts

 

The Catalan online magazine “Els temps de les Arts” released a page with info about our work and an interview at https://tempsarts.cat/arts-visuals/bosch-simons-in-creative-processes-which-are-by-no-means-linear-there-are-special-moments-when-certain-sudden-changes-lead-to-giant-steps-forward-on-the-path-to-solutions/

Interview by Ebe Giovannini.

Editor-in-chief Josep Manuel Berenguer

 

November 2021:

Acuática at Museo Vostell, Malpartida de Cáceres,

October 21 – December 12, 2021

October 21 we premiered an interactive version of Acuática at the beautiful Museum Vostell.

 

 

More info about the exhibition

and about the work at  https://www.boschsimons.com/acuatica-2019/

 

 

October 2021:

Acuática at RRRR-Festival d’Art I Reciclatge.

Teatro Raval, Gandía, October 13-28

For RRRR we have been working on a new version of Acuática with some significant changes in sound and image. We hung the carboys in fishing nets and premiered new valves, which offer a much wider range of air flow for each bottle individually.

 

 

Other participants: Pul&Play, Jorge Reichmann, Llorenç Barber, Trashhhhh !!!, Gràcies per la pluja, Factoría artis3.

 

More info at: https://rrrrfestival.org/

 

August 2021:

Acuática at the18^th Racó dels Artesans.

Museu de la Pauma, Mas de Barberans, August 7 and 8

August 7 and 8 we gave 4 concerts with a new set-up of Acuática with 7 carboys placed on a metal structure, our first live appearance since September 2020… The concerts formed part of the cycle “Ebre, Música & Patrimoni 2021”. Paisatges sonors de les Terres de l’Ebre, an initiative of the Museu de les Terres de l’ Ebre, Sant Carles de la Ràpita.

 

More info about this series:

https://www.museuterresebre.cat/index.asp?i=ca

 

Más información sobre el Racó dels Artesans:

https://cdrmuseudelapauma.cat/worpre/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/programa-2021.pdf

 

and about the work at:

https://cdrmuseudelapauma.cat/worpre/lacustica-de-laigua/

https://www.boschsimons.com/acuatica-2019/

 

 

May 2021:

En tiempo real. La Colección Rafael Tous de arte conceptual.

MACBA, Barcelona, from 14-05-2021 until 7-01-2022

 

Cantan un Huevo has been shown at Metrònom, Barcelona in 2001-02. A video of this exhibition was filmed and edited by Adolf Alcañiz Rodriguez. This video can be seen at the exhibition “En tiempo real. La Colección Rafael Tous de arte conceptual” at the MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, where it is shown in a video compilation of sound art, including works by Rolf Julius, Terry Fox, Lewis deSoto and Jordi Benito.

 

 

Hundreds of metal springs, originally tied together to serve as a mattress, form an extremely complex surface when put into movement. Oscillating motors cause glass bottles, placed on these mattress springs, to rattle against on another.

More about the work at https://boschsimons.com/cantan-un-huevo and about the exhibition at https://www.macba.cat/…/real-time-rafael-tous…

Special thanks to Barbara Held

Jornadas Nits

December 10, 12, 15 and 17, 6 p.m.

 

This year Nits d ’Aielo i Art was held online.

More info at http://www.nitsdaieloiart.com/

All sessions (in Spanish/Valencian) are recorded on Llorenç Barber’s Youtube channel.

We participated in the 4th and last day of the Festival, December 17:

 

Our contribution starts at 43:45.

 

Program:

Dec 10, 18 hrs. The 70s. From Actum to Ensems.

Participants: José Vicente Gil-Noé, Amadeu Marin

Dec 12, 18 hrs. 80s. Carles Santos, Minimalism.

Participants: Mariaelena Roqué, Jose Luis Miralles,

Bartolomé Ferrando, Pep Llopis

Dec 15, 18 hrs. The 90s. The bands, Grupo ANCA, Public art.

Participants: Lucia Peiró Lloret, Oscar Vidal, Miquel Àngel Marín Ribes

Dec 17, 18 hrs. 2000s. Experimental Music and Sound Art.

Participants: Peter Bosch & Simone Simons, Montserrat Palacios Prado,

Jesús Ge, Martí Guillem, Rocío Silleras

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Delivery of the Cura Castillejo Award to Martí Guillem and Mariaelena Roqué.

 

Poster and website of the festival: Freezia Studio

 

“Cultura online‟

Call #CMCVaCasa of the Consortium of Museums of the Comunitat Valenciana,

online since October 22, 2020.

 

 

Acuática, version 3 is one of the 100 projects selected in this call.

Acuática, version 3 (Bosch & Simons, 2020) is a project in which we capture and mix the sound of air bubbles in carboys filled with water. Version 3 combines the qualities of the two previous versions. While it maintains the subtlety of version 2, it certainly gains in complexity and dynamics for the mayor number of sound sources (12), the double of the previous version.

More info on our project at https://www.boschsimons.com/acuatica-2019/

All  selected projects at https://culturaonline.consorcimuseus.gva.es/es/

 

AUDIOSPHERE: Sound experimentation 1980-2020

Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, October 14, 2020 to January 11, 2021

 

 

Audiosphere features the work of 810 artists from 80 countries working in the field of experimental music, with a particular focus on the independent, underground, DIY and non-academic spheres, both before and after the popularization of the internet. This exhibition aims to fill a historical and cultural void by supporting and presenting the work of this international community that in most cases has been ignored in the field of contemporary art.

 

Curator of the exhibition: Francisco López (http://www.franciscolopez.net).

 

We participate with a sound recording of our work Acuática, version 2.

 

Acuática, versión 2

More about Acuática at      https://www.boschsimons.com/acuatica-2019/ 

 

More about the exhibition: https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/audiosphere

 

 

 

Harddiskmuseum exhibition “The pioneers”

Barcú Art Fair/Festival, Bogotá, Colombia, October 13-18, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This year, for sanitary reasons, the fair has chosen for an online format created by the Updated Art Studio (UAS) of Solimán López. The virtual exhibition consist of 6 sections:

-International galleries

-Curated exhibition of independent artists

-Digital art exhibition curated by Wade Wallerstein

-Exhibition of the Fuga Foundation

-Exhibition Clorofila organized by Juan Covelli

–Harddiskmuseum exhibition “The pioneers” with

Bosch & Simons, Hugo Martínez–Tormo, Inma Femenía, Rubén Tortosa, Fabien Zocco, being the first artists who supported the Harddiskmuseum, in 2015. We participate with two diptychs produced with our work Aguas Vivas.

 

diptych 1

 

diptych 2

 

More about Aguas Vivas  at https://www.boschsimons.com/aguas-vivas/

 

 

Laboratorio del Mundo Vibrante, Festival Ensems, Valencia, Spain

Universitat de València, LA NAU, 18-20 September, 2020

 

This event consisted of two workshops and three mini-concerts. Visitors of all ages could explore the world of vibration and resonance by modifying and controlling three robots/creatures mounted on metal springs that generate surprising movements and rhythms. In the same space we recovered two works from 1993, being the very first version of the Krachtgever, a tower of vibrating boxes supported by springs, and the Trajectversterker, a vibrant wooden track on which various objects sound and move in different ways. We used these three elements of the set-up in three mini-concerts.

 

mini-concert, filmed by Ensems

 

Images from the workshops Laboratorio del Mundo Vibrante

 

 

Also part of Ensems: talks (in Spanish)

 

on-line talk about our work in general by Rubén López-Cano

 

Carmen Pardo about our work “Arrhythmia”, a collaboration with Sergey Kostyrko

 

All events organised by Marina Hervás and Cristina Cubells.

 

 

 

Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Utrecht, Netherlands,

Poème Symphonique  by György Ligeti, on-line concert, September 13, 2020.

 

On September 13, 1963, at the closing concert of the Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Hungarian composer György Ligeti’s legendary work Poème Symphonique premiered, having been commissioned by Gaudeamus. A piece for 100 metronomes which are started simultaneously, but in different tempi, resulting in a polyrhythmic jungle.

57 years later Gaudeamus presented Poème Symphonique again, with a corona flavour this time: from living rooms and other locations all over the world, via Zoom.

We were one of the participants, with our inherited metronome.

 

 

More at https://gaudeamus.nl/en/events/poeme-zoomphonique/

 

Summer Camp at cONcErn, Cosne d´Allier, France

8-12 July 2020

 

 

Many artists with a work at cONcErn came to the event:

Pierre Bamfort, Théo Bedard, Julia Boix-Vives, Peter Bosch, Merryl Bouchereau, Hervé Bréhier, Amandine Capion, Marie-Bénédicte Cazeneuve, Eléonore Cheneau, Chloé Devanne-Langlais, Laurent Faulon, Jenny Feal, Carole Fékété, Simon Feydieu, Julie Karabeguian, Mélissa Mariller, Anita Molinero, Nicolas Momein, Cécile Paris, Anne-Marie Rognon, Edouard Termignon.

An inspiring event and a perfect moment to do some maintenance on the works that we have at cONcErn since May 2019.

 

Informal concert with the Krachtgever.

 

Informal concert with Cantan un Huevo.

 

More about these works at https://www.boschsimons.com/krachtgever/  and  https://www.boschsimons.com/cantan-un-huevo/

October:

CentroCentro, Plaza Cibeles 1A, 28014 Madrid

Series VANG: Concert by Bosch&Simons with new work “Acuática”.

Tuesday, October 29, 20.00 h.

Extended programme info (in Spanish) at: http://2019-20.vang.es/vang1

First concert with this new project. We capture and mix the sound of air bubbles in the water of the bottles and amplify these sounds over a four channel PA system. After the concert the public was invited to come on stage and listen to the sounds from nearby.

Integral sound recording of the concert:

September:

“Spring Tide” at Wadden Tide 2019

August 31- September 29, Blåvandshuk, Denmark

This open-air event took place at the beach and the dunes of Blåvandshuk.

Participating artists:

Bosch & Simons (ES), Erick Fourrier (FR), Ingrid Ogenstedt (IS), Kate Skjerning (DK), Roger Rigorth (DE), Monique Bastiaans (BE), Stuart Ian Frost (GB), Strijdom van der Merwe (ZA), Britt Smelvær (NO), Gkøde & Partnere Arkitekter (DK), Hannah Streefkerk (NL) and Edgar Massul (PT).

Curator: Jette Mellgren (DK)

About Spring Tide:

“The theme of this exhibition is the migration of birds, a fascinating, complex, dynamic process. Through long springs, sound migrates as birds do but much faster.  However compared to the strings of musical instruments it propagates extremely slowly. So slow that it is possible to track the sound travelling through space, visually and audibly. The work is powered by the wind that blows six metal plates which hit the springs in an extremely unpredictable way.”

 

video of Spring Tide, recorded 29-31 August.

 

More details and pictures of Wadden Tide 2019 at https://www.facebook.com/WaddenTide/

and about the work at https://www.boschsimons.com/springtide-2019/

From May (until now):

cONcErn, 03430 Cosne d’Allier , France

Saturday 25 May, from 15h to 22h, reception of our works Krachtgever and Cantan un Huevo, which will stay mounted much longer, for the moment..

About cONcErn:

“cONcErn is an artistic infrastructure for art works that, for logistical reasons, are at risk of destruction, disposal or abandonment. Together with the artists, cONcErn investigates the possibilities for a recovery of the artworks “in need”. A gathering rather than a collection, cONcErn welcomes the art works in a dynamic space for storage and visibility and appreciates the diversity of contemporary creation.

Thanks to the ensemble of recovered art works, cONcErn organises educational and cultural activities, public events and round table discussions that explore the place and potential of artistic practice in the current socio-economical and ecological climate.”

From https://concern.fr/

Announcement on television:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2165668313486438

More about these works:

https://www.boschsimons.com/krachtgever/ and

https://www.boschsimons.com/cantan-un-huevo/

 

April:

“Finding Affinities”, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg,

Halle (Saale), Germany

April 27 –May 4, 2019

We participated with our new work Arrhythmia, in collaboration with Sergey Kostyrko

Video of Arrhythmia

More about the exhibition at:

https://agm.globalyoungacademy.net/exhibition/art-exhibit-programme/

https://agm.globalyoungacademy.net/exhibition/

 

March:

Exposición del XIV Festival Internacional

Callejón del Ruido, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico.

with Karina Álvarez, Paul DeMarinis, Fernando Vigueras, Graciela Iturbide, Bosch & Simons.

Sala Polivalente, Edificio Central de la Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico.

March 26- April 26, 2019

We participated with Último Intento Minero.

Video of Último Intento Minero

pictures of the exhibition:

 

February:

Centro Cultural Galileo, C/ Galileo 39, MADRID

February 7 – March 3, 2019

Exhibition EX5, cinco años de arte electrónico experimental

We participated with our work Último Esfuerzo Industrial III (2015)

Picture from exhibition A.N.T.,“Technological art and natures”, Galería Punto, Valencia, 2015.

more about Último Esfuerzo Industrial

 

January:

MUSAC, Avda. de los Reyes Leoneses, 24, León, SPAIN

January 26- September 15, 2019

Exhibition EL GIRO NOTACIONAL

Curated by José Iges and Manuel Olveira

Web page MUSAC

We participated with a video from the opening concert of the Multimediale2, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 1991, with our work Was der Wind zum Klingen bringt  and a score for this work.

About Was der Wind zum Klingen bringt

November:

Convent Carmen, Plaza Portal Nou 6, Valencia

November 28, 18:00 h

Discussion “Art or Entertainment?”

with Daniel Gordillo, José Ramón Alcalá, Moisés Mañas, Peter Bosch.

Moderator: Toni Calderón.

 

 

 

Museo Casa Gran, C/ Sant Antoni 14,

La Pobla de Vallbona (Valencia),

November 17 – December 1

exhibition “Último Esfuerzo Rural I, II and III”

 

“The first time we visited the Casa Gran we thought at once of our series Último Esfuerzo Rural (“Last Rural Effort”), a series of works wherein we use objects you will all find back in the museum. In this exhibition we present the three works in dialogue with three spaces.

Último Esfuerzo Rural arose from rural life. We are not trying to romanticize this rural life; rather our work is inspired by the creativity and strength of the individuals, so typical of isolated rural communities: the individual him or herself looks for simple, but creative and playful solutions to the problems that occur in the world surrounding them. A lifestyle that´s about to disappear.

Último Esfuerzo Rural I and II were premiered in Valencia at the Ensems festival of contemporary music, 2004. One part consists of giant “zambombas” (lions roars), made of barrels and played by pneumatic cylinders. The other part are wooden pitchforks that, through an unpredictable mechanism, scratch on windows. These forks now found a perfect place in the stable while our barrels are incorporated into a row of barrels in the wine cellar.
A year ago we created the third part of the series, Último Esfuerzo Rural III. We started to collect antiquated metal objects in our village, Chelva. The objects include large pans for boiling onions and funnels made of tin plate, way back used in the production of sausages, and ewers made for measuring quantities of olive oil. These objects are now brought back to life by tiny air-driven industrial vibrators, mingled with the collection of objects in the oil mill of the museum.”

Special thanks to the oil mill Hnos Martínez Zaballos for their wine barrels and ewers.

More info about each installation separately:

https://www.boschsimons.com/ultimo-esfuerzo-rural-l/

https://www.boschsimons.com/ultimo-esfuerzo-rural-ll/

https://www.boschsimons.com/ultimo-esfuerzo-rural-iii-2017/

 

September:

ADATA AiR Plovdiv –

European Capital of Culture 2019 artist residency

September 10 -24, with Frank Havermans.

Impressions from the trip to Plovdiv, Bulgaria, investigating the area with Frank Havermans for a new project in the course of 2019.

ADATA AiR

 

 

June:

Exhibition Espacio P 1981-1997 at
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes.

June 28 – September 30.

We participate in the exhibition with videos of our works Krachtgever (1995-98) and Electric Swaying Orchestra (1991-92). Curator: Karin Ohlenschlaeger.

https://teatenerife.es/exposicion/espacio-p-1981-1997/16

 

In the course of 2017 we have shown the project Último Esfuerzo Rural III-V five times in different versions and contexts.

Video by Tanja Busking about the artist residency at iii the Hague during October 2017 and the exhibition of Último Esfuerzo Rural V at the sound art exhibition at Kruithuis – STOK, during the festival November Music, 5-12 November 2017. Video and exhibition were commissioned by iii. https://instrumentinventors.org/

Último Esfuerzo Rural III at the art fair justMAD, Madrid, Feb 21-26, 2017.

Último Esfuerzo Rural III (2017) is the third project of a series of works inspired by the area we live in, the rural interior of Valencia. We are not trying to romanticize rural life; rather our work is inspired by the creativity and strength of the individuals, so typical of isolated rural communities: the individual him or herself looks for simple, but creative and playful solutions to the problems that occur in the world surrounding them (with sweat, strength and courage). Recently we started to collect antiquated metal objects from our area. The objects include large pans for boiling onions and funnels made of tin plate, way back used in the production of sausages, and ewers once made for measuring quantities of olive oil. They are brought back to life by tiny air-driven industrial vibrators. Once brought into resonance our objects recover their forgotten value by producing mysterious, hypnotic sounds: a process whereby the potential energy of once meaningful, but now dead objects, is being transformed into a spiritual experience, by stimulating their resonant frequencies in an unusually unpredictable and vivid manner. A listener can choose his own perspective in the sonic environment created by the installation by moving around below the objects. Also inside of the objects unpredictable behaviour takes place: Normally this type of vibrator is firmly mounted with bolts, whereas we attach one or two metal springs below each. This enables the vibrators to move around inside their object, propelled by their own vibration, causing different timbres and sound volumes. Each object also influences the behaviour of the others: Because all the vibrators share the air from the same limited source the activity of already sounding objects diminishes when others come to live, resulting in a fragile and complex sonic system, unpredictable in its smallest detail. In future versions we will increase the number of objects, and possibly choose objects, related to a specific site or country.

Special thanks to Günter Geiger for his assistance in the development of software and to Almazara Hnos Martínez Zaballos and Pepa and Vicenta Torralba for their ewers and pans.

 October 2017:

Artist residency at ¡¡¡, The Hague, Netherlands, 1-31 October 2017.

https://instrumentinventors.org/residencies/

During this residency we participated in the event

Connect the Dots, no patent pending#29 at Korzobar, The Hague, October 5.

and worked on version V of the series of Último Esfuerzo Rural , twice as big as previous versions, premiered at November Music , Bois-le-Duc, Netherlands, 5-12 November 2017.

November Music , Bois-le-Duc, 5-12 November 2017.

sound recording of Último Esfuerzo Rural V, Kruithuis, Bois-le-Duc, 5-11-2017

https://novembermusic.net/programma/installatie-expeditie-kruithuis-2017

 

DA_Fest, Sofia, Bulgaria, 19-23 September 2017:

Version IV of Último Esfuerzo Rural IV has been shown at DA_Fest, Sofia, Bulgaria, 19-23 September 2017. The objects we used were supplied by Venelin Shurelov, the artistic director of the Festival, found in Jasna Poljana, a village in the south-east of Bulgaria.

https://www.2017.da-fest.bg/en/home/news/news-go

https://www.facebook.com/DAFest/

Friday 23/Sat 24 of June 2017:

Radio Program “Ars Sonora” at Radio Clásica España.

Presentation and direction: Miguel Álvarez-Fernández,

at 1:00 AM of the night from Friday June 23 to Saturday June 24.

Now available on-line at https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/ars-sonora/

This broadcast is dedicated to the exhibition espacio.sonido.silencios. at the Museum Patio Herreriano, Valladolid. We participate with the work Último Esfuerzo Rural III. Curator: José Iges.

audio recording of Último Esfuerzo Rural III  at espacio.sonido.silencios.

Último Esfuerzo Rural III at espacio.sonido.silencios.

Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, June 8 – August 27, 2017

From June 8 until August 27 Último Esfuerzo Rural III has been shown at the

exhibition espacio.sonido.silencios. Curator: José Iges.

At Museo Patio Herreriano,

Calle Jorge Guillén, 6

47003 Valladolid
https://www.museopatioherreriano.org/MuseoPatioHerreriano/getPosts/12391

The première:

Último Esfuerzo Rural III at the art fair justMAD, Madrid, Feb 21-26, 2017.

The first version of Último Esfuerzo Rural III was shown at the art fair justMAD, Madrid, as of the selected pieces by EX, asociación de arte electrónico y EXperimental, for the Just TECH Prizes 2017.

Selected pieces:

Ting Zhang: Far and Near You and Me

Iliyana Kancheva: Image Don’t Cost a Thing

Andrei Thomaz: Hourglass

Bosch & Simons: Último Esfuerzo Rural III

More about the art fair: www.justmad.es

audio recording from Madrid: two concerts, each of 5 minutes.

Other events:

exhibition Espacio P 1981-1997,  Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, June 3 – October 8, 2017

We participated in the exhibition Espacio P 1981-1997 with videos of our works Krachtgever (1995-98) and Electric Swaying Orchestra (1991-92). Curator: Karin Ohlenschlaeger.

Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo,

Avda. Constitución, 23
28931 Móstoles
Madrid

link to publication
 

 

 Talks:

 

2017-22-09   Peter Bosch: DA_Fest, National academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria

2017-10-10    Peter Bosch: Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatoire, The Hague

2017-06-11    Peter Bosch: Music and Technology, HKU, Utrecht, Netherlands

2017-22-11    Bosch & Simons: Master Artes Visuales & Multimedia, UPV, Valencia

November:

16-11-2016 — 30-11-2016

Bang Spring Time (2009-2016)  at the  XXIII FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL PUNTO DE ENCUENTRO, organized by AMEE  at the Centro del Carmen, Valencia.

 

and  16-11-2016 première of Último Esfuerzo Industrial IV (Bosch & Simons + Liberovskaya)

 

 video Último Esfuerzo Industrial IV (2016)

First collaboration with Katherine Liberovskaya at the XXIII Festival Punto de Encuentro,

Museo Centro Del Carmen (Valencia), organised by AMEE, 16-11-2016.
Peter Bosch & Simone Simons: Live sound
Katherine Liberovskaya: Live Video and live plasma light.

Full programme of the festival:

XXIII FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL PUNTO DE ENCUENTRO

More about the works:

https://www.boschsimons.com/bang-spring-time/

https://www.boschsimons.com/ultimo-esfuerzo-industrial-i-and-ii-2012-2014/

June:

02-06-2016 —  05-06-2016:

Radical dB Festival at

Etopía

Avenida Ciudad de Soria, 8, 50003 Zaragoza, Spain.

Friday,  June 3 we gave a concert with Último Esfuerzo Industrial II together with Marco Ferrazza and the winner of the competition, Juan Antonio Nieto.

Sound recording of concert with Último Esfuerzo Industrial II, 03-06-2016:

Full programme of the festival at

https://radicaldb.es/artistas-2/2016-2

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/radicaldb/

 February-May:

10-02-2016 – 21-05-2016: Mirlitones at exhibition

Arte sonoro en España (1961-2016), Museo Fundación Juan March,

Carrer de Sant Miquel, 11, 07002 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Curators: José Iges and José Luis Maire. Artists (among many others): Mikel Arce, José Manuel Berenguer, Xabier Erkizia, Ramón González-Arroyo, Concha Jerez and Javier Maderuelo.

 

Video of Mirlitones, recorded at the Museo Fundación Juan March, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2016. For the occasion we changed lots of things like the types of valves we use (the work works with compressed air), the software, the length of pipes and, being the most important change, the type of membrane that produces the sound.

New article:

https://econtact.ca/18_2/bosch-simons_mirlitones.html

 Bosch & Simons, Mirlitones, 2012-16

links:

https://www.march.es/arte/palma/exposiciones/arte-sonoro/?l=1

https://www.hoyesarte.com/evento/2016/02/la-gran-exposicion-sobre-el-arte-sonoro-espanol/

https://masdearte.com/arte-sonoro-e-informalismo-en-2016-en-la-fundacion-march/

April:

11-04-2016 – 15-04-2016: Art and Science Festival,

9 Evenings Revisited: seminar, first phase.

Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, Germany.

Workshop “Vibration Motor” for refugee kids, together with  Angela Straube, Sergey Kostyrko and Ina Schulze.

Video of the workshop by Hagen Wiel:

https://www.facebook.com/candace.a.goodrich/videos/10154111186174244/

Web page KunstKraftWerk

January:

15-01-2016, 19:30 h: The Wrong Biennale,

concert with Último Esfuerzo Industrial II

at “Altered Search Results” with

David Quiles, Belén Gache, Gustavo Romano, Julio Sosa y Moisés Mañas

Organised by Cristina Ghetti.

Plutón CC
c/ en Plom 5 Bajo Izq.
46001 Valencia, Spain.

https://thewrong.org/Altered-Search-Results

https://www.pluton.cc/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1510048785957584/