AIR
— Live performance
Sunday, Oct. 6, 20:00 – Corneliu Mikloși Museum

Photo Federic Boudin

AIR is Roberto Maqueda’s first solo project, inspired by percussion’s multi-layering concept. It project combines amplified instruments and solenoid valve modules, creating analog drum-machines. The piece aims not to make ordinary use of the specific language of percussion instruments, but rather to destroy their sound, deconstruct it, and process it; utilizing the resulting sound analysis and translating it into a visual result.

Studying percussion, Roberto Maqueda identifies himself as an heterodox artist interested in avant-garde creation connected to electronic worlds and digital art; as well as new forms of communication and their implementation in the sound scene of our time. Some crucial influences have been Christian Dierstein, Fred Frith, Håkon Stene, or Steven Schick.

His main projects in the last years have been reConvert or y-band. Most recently he has become Artistic Co-Director of FOG (Festival offener Genres), a creative-hub in Basel.
He was awarded with the Young Creation Award 2017 of INJUVE (Spanish Government).
In his work is crucial the reflection on the collaborative creative methods, contained in 10staements.com, a project developed together with Jennifer Torrence. He is Co-director of the EXIT Festival, which takes place in Montevideo (Uruguay).

He has been part of the program “Young Artists Promises” of the ULYSSES Platform.
He has been presented at SONICA, Manifeste or MaerzMusik.


With the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia