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Fauna

by Merche Blasco

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Lobatus 08:59
2.
Araña 05:59
3.
Polvo 09:41

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Fauna is a live improvisation with a set of custom-made instruments and re-purposed technologies used to process field recordings, incorporating body movements and the live exploration of intricate material textures.
The composition comprises three movements, each defined by the nature of the instruments they feature.

Even though I am the one building these instruments, with time they always reveal to me their idiosyncratic, unexpected behaviors, even appearing to cycle through their own particular moods. To me they start to appear as living creatures, who I can never expect to function the same way from one performance to the next. For this reason, when I had to come up with a name to call the different configurations of these creatures I would arrange for performance, I chose Fauna.

Merche Blasco is a multimedia artist and composer based in New York, and currently living in Berlin.
She designs and builds imprecise technological assemblages that catalyze embodied forms of live electroacoustic composition and new modes of listening. Through her constructed devices, Merche attempts to establish a more horizontal relationship with other entities, distancing herself from parameters of precision, power, and control. As an alternative form of performance, she engineers collaborative spaces with instruments that are given their own agency, in compositions where her body and the live exploration of organic materials are central elements. Her work also increasingly focuses on designing participatory sound performances in public spaces to connect strangers and their surroundings through collective music-making and listening.
Merche has presented her performances and installations at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Shed, CTM Festival, MaerzMusik , Sonar Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, NIME conferences, Tsonami International Sound Art Festival in Chile, The High Line in New York, SONIC Festival, Mapping Festival (Geneva), Queens Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile, among others. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, El Pais Semanal, and The Wire magazine.
Merche was a DAAD Music & Sound Fellow in 2022-2023.

Released October 13, 2023

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released October 13, 2023

All pieces were composed and performed by Merche Blasco

This remote concert event was organized as part of the Carriage Barn Music Series (Music Mondays from the Carriage Barn) Fall 2020 season at Bennington College and curated by Senem Pirler and Joseph Alpar.
Live Sound Technician: Luke Taylor '21

Fauna was mixed by Jake Landau

Fauna was mastered by Ebban Maeda

The photograph of Lobatus used in the cover was taken by Rocio Campaña

Album cover design by Shankari Murali

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Merche Blasco is a multimedia artist and composer based in New York, and currently living in Berlin.
She designs and builds imprecise technological assemblages that catalyze embodied forms of live electroacoustic composition and new modes of listening. ... more

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