einXs Pro

einxs orbital collective presents einXs Pro, a programme divided into three modules that further deepens the professionalisation and community-building of artists and digital culture agents. Designed as a space for exchange and growth, this new line of activities, curated by Merche Blasco, connects local creators with international artists, generating contexts that favour horizontal knowledge transfer and the strengthening of the digital cultural ecosystem.

One of the fundamental objectives of einXs Pro is to nurture a more solid, diverse and connected local artistic ecosystem, favouring the creation of links that go beyond a specific moment. For this reason, the workshops are documented with summaries and accessible digital materials that allow the knowledge shared during the sessions to continue circulating and inspiring other processes.

einXs Pro also works to ensure that this space is truly inclusive, taking into account the structural barriers that hinder access to technology and digital tools. With all this, einXs pro aims to be a platform for imagining other types of technologies and other ways of relating to them, asserting that digital creativity can also be a place of affection, resistance and collective transformation.

einXs Pro also works to ensure that this space is truly inclusive, taking into account the structural barriers that prevent access to technology and digital tools. With all this, einXs Pro aims to be a platform for imagining other types of technologies and other ways of relating to them, asserting that digital creativity can also be a place of affection, resistance and collective transformation.

This space is an invitation to think of technology not as an inevitable destination, but as a space for creation, questioning and transformation.

Transductions: Body – Interface
With Eli Gras and Viola Yip
3–7 November

Eli Gras and Viola Yip are artists who explore embodied forms of composition and performance in electronic and electroacoustic music. They begin their creative process by creating devices that relate intimately to the expressiveness of the body, cultivating a continuous dialogue between gesture and technology. In this encounter, boundaries dissolve: the body becomes an extension of the machine and the machine acquires bodily resonance.

These hybrid systems, which are both physical and virtual, generate spaces in which listening is expanded and performers and devices co-transform.

Training 1: Piezo Infinity
With Eli Gras
Date: 3rd and 4th November
Time: 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Venue: Former Offices, Hangar (Door T)
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In this workshop, we will explore the infinite possibilities of the piezoelectric contact microphone, a simple and effective system for amplifying sound objects by capturing their vibrations.

To achieve this, we will construct our own microphones using tools, soldering irons, cables and the microphones themselves. We will then discover ways to attach the microphones to sound objects, which we will build using recycled and converted materials. We will look for ways to amplify any sound-producing element, with or without a sound box, and investigate the sound vibration conduction chains of different materials in contact.

Materials:

Some materials will already be available in the workshop, but it is important that participants bring any type of recycled materials, small furniture, metals, wood, wires of any kind, lighting decoration materials, scouring pads, cans, kitchen items, etc. Keep in mind that wood and metal are easier to work with and produce better results, although plastics, such as bottles, are also interesting and useful.

Training 2 – Inflatable Sounds – Electronics Between Air, Matter and Space

With Viola Yip
Dates: 5th and 6th November
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Venue: Former Offices, Hangar (Door T)
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This workshop proposes building instruments that explore air as a medium connecting the digital and analog worlds. Through creating inflatable structures, controlling air pressure in flexible spaces and capturing data in air-based systems, we will investigate the complex relationship between air, the body, matter and space through electronics.

Performance with Eli Gras and Viola Yip
Date: 7 November
Time: 8 p.m.
Venue: Sala Ricson, Hangar
Free admission

Eli Gras will perform an intimate improvised concert of “artisanal” experimental music. This will be created in situ without the use of a computer and will feature recycled materials, acoustic and electroacoustic devices, and creative DIY to generate unique sound and visual landscapes.

Viola Yip will present Liminal Lines, a live electronic music performance featuring a portable instrument in the form of a dress made of audio cables, which she created herself. Through her body movements, Viola Yip activates connections and modulates sound signals, creating a choreography between sound and body.

The result is a complex performative interaction between body and machine, giving rise to constantly evolving sound textures.

— Biofonías: Interspecies Listening: With Arquea Colectivo and Felicity Mangan
1–5 December

As Annea Lockwood says, when we immerse ourselves in sound, a visceral connection emerges that reminds us of our deep interconnection with the world around us. The more we feel this connection, the more conscious and generous our actions towards our surroundings can be.

The artists gathered here invite us to engage in deep listening, paying close attention to the surrounding ecosystems with respect, curiosity and openness. Their practice brings us closer to other beings and helps us to question the colonial and extractivist ways in which we have so often related to non-human life.

As Marzia Matarese reminds us, through their work, possibilities open up for encountering these ecologies from an affective, symbolic, and relational perspective. This listening offers us a way of being in the world, of caring for, and allowing ourselves to be transformed by, that which resonates beyond ourselves.

Training 1: Becoming Landscape. Cultivating listening to multispecies assemblages
With Arquea Colectivo
Dates: 1st and 2nd December
Time: 6:00pm–8:30pm
Venue: Old Offices, Hangar (Door T)
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For two days, we will open a collective space for exploration and creation, aiming to imagine new ways of listening beyond the human experience. The workshop will involve immersing ourselves in the creation of multi-species micro-landscapes that house small hybrid and mutant ecologies. These ecologies will be composed of spontaneous organisms, decomposing or recomposing organic matter, electronic devices, sensors and microphones. These elements will enable us to capture and translate environmental signals into electrical stimuli, analogue modulation and sound.

Training 2: Poly’Biorhythms – Recording and composing music with field recordings and found sounds
With Felicity Mangan
Dates: 3rd and 4th December
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Venue: Old Offices, Hangar (Door T)
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This two-day workshop focuses on recording and composing with field recordings and found sounds, with a particular focus on listening to other species.

Performance with Arquea Colectivo and Felicity Mangan
Date: 5 December
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Sala Ricson, Hangar
Free admission

Arquea Colectivo will present an experimental audiovisual performance in which images and sounds emerge from assemblages of organisms and multi-species landscapes. Felicity Mangan will also perform a live electroacoustic piece, combining field recordings and sound synthesis to create living soundscapes that exist between reality and imagination. This is an auditory experience that opens up listening to forms of life that are often invisible or silenced.

— Expanded Sound Cartographies: Maguette Dieng (Mbodj) and Yara Mekawei
9–12 December
With Maguette Dieng (Mbodj) and Yara Mekawei

Yara Mekawei and Maguette Dieng explore the ever-changing sound identities of cities, delving into territories where every vibration is intertwined with the social, political and cultural currents that run through these spaces.

Their work invites us to listen more attentively, whether through community listening workshops that explore urban landscapes or through the creation of vast archives that preserve the resonance of the city through materiality in constant metamorphosis. For Yara, these urban resonances synthesise memory and critique. “Every architectural element and choice of material had a distinctive sound signature encapsulating the essence of Cairo. Sounds that were once vibrant now echo like ghosts, haunting the collective memory of Cairo’s residents.’

Through attentive listening, both artists reveal the creative and narrative potential of sounds, showing how hidden political strategies and economic imbalances are inscribed in the very fabric of these urban tapestries.

Training 1: Sound Creation Based on Experimental Scores
With Maguette Dieng
Date: 9 December
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Former Offices, Hangar (Door T)
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In this training session, we aim to create a hybrid language combining human and digital technologies. We will translate ideas, speculations and objects into sound using digital tools. The main idea behind these sessions is to collectively interpret individual scores and imagine more open and creative forms of narration and sound structure.

Training 2: Voices in Translation. Poetic Lineages as Sound Maps
With Yara Mekawei
Dates: 10th and 11th December
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Venue: Former Offices, Hangar (Door T)
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This workshop is an immersive and collaborative exploration of language, memory and sound. Participants will be invited to connect with their personal linguistic heritage, not as a fixed or academic object, but as living, breathing sound material.

Using voice, poetry and spoken fragments drawn from our ancestral, familial or emotional roots, we will explore how words carry much more than meaning; they also contain rhythm, silence, breath and history. These vocal traces will form the basis of intimate soundscapes created using accessible electronic techniques.

Performance with Maguette Dieng and Yara Mekawei
Date: 12 December
Time: 8 p.m.
Venue: Sala Ricson, Hangar
Free admission

Yara Mekawei’s ‘The Shrine’ is a transcendental sound journey inspired by Sufi mysticism and the precious stones of Ibn ‘Arabi’s wisdom. This immersive live performance intertwines sound, philosophy and divine revelation, inviting the audience to explore the essence of existence.

“pxrtxtxrx”, by Maguette Dieng is an experimental sound session featuring scores created in the einXs Pro workshop.