Sub_Bar - a Plaground for Subfrequencies and Haptic Art

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With Sub_Bar, Eufonia launches a pioneering series of events exploring music, subfrequencies and the haptic sense in Portugal and Germany. 

Our sense of "touch", ignored by compositional practices, is home to our deepest memories and most instinctive reactions, talking a language of pain and pleasure, traumas and comfort, summer and winter. What happens when we stimulate it with music? We invited hearing, hearing impaired, and deaf artists to create original works using only subfrequencies, more specifically, frequencies between 30hz and 150hz: their compositions will be played through a powerful subwoofer system, transforming the event location into a musical pressure room, for a unique listening experience that activates the whole body.

The events consist of sub installations, live performances, haptic artwork and music production workshops. Electronic music heavyweight, Byetone, founder of the renowned label Raster Noton, Deaf Rave mastermind dj Troi Lee, and subfrequencies expert Stefanie Egedy, alongside other international diverse artists are responsible for composing these unique Sub Works. These installations will be supported by the live performance “Blink Time”, an exploration of time, mass and communication by Sub_Bar resident and Eufonia founder Atelier Francesco. We will host a reactive installation from Julia Karnas, transforming hand movement into vibrations, as well as other haptic artworks created specifically for Sub_Bar. But Sub_Bar is not only art: it's also research and education. Part of the event concept is a workshop on how to create music using subfrequencies, open for anyone who is interested, but specifically aimed at deaf or hard of hearing people.

| | Sub Works | |

Byetone (Raster Media, DE)

Myles de Bastion (Cymaspace, US)

Stefanie Egedy (Coisas Que Matam, BR)

Grischa Lichtenberger (Raster Media, DE)

Troi Lee (Deaf Rave, UK)

Christian Duka (Amoenus, UK)

John Kameel Farah (Neue Meister, CA)

Martine Nicole-Rojina (Mpathy Studio, DE)

| | Live Performances | |

“Blink Time” by Atelier Francesco (Cocoon) - in Leipzig and Cologne 

| | Installations & Haptic Art | |

Julia Karnaś (Warsaw, PL) 

and more (tba)

 

| | Workshop | |

Music Composition for Sub Frequencies using Ableton Live (English and DGS) 

| | Program & Timetable | |

The detailed program for all events will be available on the facebook event pages and updated on a rolling basis. 

Sub_Bar is a vision dedicated to sub-frequencies, a space that invites everyone to meet, interact and experience music in an innovative, inclusive, and immersive way. Embedded in an aesthetic-artistic context, the overall concept aims to promote inclusion as a task and opportunity for all of us.

Sub_Bar is kindly supported by Musikfonds, Fonds Soziokultur, and Ableton.

About Eufonia:

Eufonia is an interdisciplinary platform that explores the relationship between art, science, and culture through the medium of sound. We believe that curiosity, creativity, and dialogue are necessary for artistic, scientific, and social development. We explore the use of sound in various aspects of daily life and create unique and engaging opportunities for people to meet. In doing so, we are motivated by the beauty of sharing knowledge across geographic, academic, and cultural boundaries.