Aura Satz. ‘Attuning’

As part of the LOOP Festival 2023, the Filmoteca de Catalunya is hosting an event with artist Aura Satz as part of the Attuning programme. On 23 November at 19:00h, there will be a listening session with two of the artist’s telephone sound compositions: Dial Tone Drone, 2014, with Pauline Oliveros and Laurie Spiegel and Tone Transmissions, 2020, with Éliane Radigue, Julia Eckhardt, and Rhodri Davies.

For this event, we will be joined by Aura Satz. After listening to the two sound pieces, there will be a dialogue between Aura Satz and Carolina Jiménez, the curator of the Attuning series.

Attuning includes an exhibition at the Museu de la Música de Barcelona from 9 November, 2023, to 7 January, 2024. It focuses on a specific set of works within Aura Satz’s oeuvre, drawing from certain blind spots – certainly not deaf spots – in the dominant narrative of electronic music and the conventions that have upheld them. The artist portrays a series of female composers who have played a significant role in the development of electroacoustic music and the technologies associated with generating electronic sounds. The Museu de la Música de Barcelona exhibition features Oramics: Atlantis Anew, 2011, conceived in homage to Daphne Oram; Little Doorways to Paths Not Yet Taken, 2016, an intimate profile of the American composer Laurie Spiegel; and Hacer una diagonal con la música, 2019, highlighting electroacoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra, a driving force alongside Pierre Schaeffer in the realm of musique concrete.