INTRODUCTION TO THE ART SOUND

INTERESTING SEMINAR INTRODUCTION TO ART SONOROSE held at the CENTER FOR THE ARTS

The sound artist and composer Israel Martinez, gave the seminar "Introduction to Sound Art," in order to bring musicians, artists and designers to understand the importance of sound and explore its possibilities as a vehicle of expression, beyond the discipline is practiced, music or other artistic expression. The seminar was held at the Center for Art and New Technologies (SING), Center for the Arts in San Luis Potosi Centennial.

According to Israel Martinez, "this workshop can be as simple or nailed as participants wish. Anyone could take this course, from people in theater, dance, literature, architects and graphic designers, linking sense is sound art to the personal work of each creator. It is useful for those who work directly with sound, and sound artists, who make performance and contemporary musicians. "

The concept of sound art, is a young label which was institutionalized in the UK in the late nineties and early two thousand. Being still in its early years, are great for exploring the possibilities of who goes into this practice, which, as indicated Martinez "is still in its infancy, the story is being written every day."

It is common for sound art, it requires sophisticated equipment, however, most of the time it comes to installation, performance, ephemeral routines or sound emitting body, and can be so large that at times , do not even need a tape recorder. Although there is very specialized software for all levels. "I recently did an audiovisual installation in Guadalajara, a combination of cars and sounds, watched by more than ten thousand people, something unheard of for a show of this kind."

Martinez adds, "is not about changing the mind of the creator, but to make the product more accessible to people, not its complexity but making the information is understood." Likewise acknowledges the work of institutions like the Arts Center of San Luis Potosi Centenary CANTE particularly since it is the only government-supported centers supporting the arts and technology at the institutional level, for those young people who would otherwise have to resign yourself to learn empirically, without formal guidance to guide them in their training.

Israel Martinez, is a composer of electroacoustic and experimental music, music for contemporary dance and butoh, audiovisual installations, interventions and actions spaces on site. Distinction Award is a creditor of the 2007 European festival Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. It has been placed in a privileged position within the Mexican sound art has appeared in America, England, Austria, Spain, France and Colombia. His discography consists of the albums "Nareah" (2009, Aagoo) and Exorcizios (2008, Abolipop).