Interval #1 where the turn tightens, a cowbell. With Noela Covelo Velasco
Interval #1 where the turn tightens, a cowbell with Noela Covelo Velasco, is a series of performances and an exhibition installation by Rubén Grilo and Robert M. Ochshorn.
Programme
Tuesday, 16 September
19.00 Progress Barks (2022) by Rubén Grilo and Robert M. Ochshorn
Listening session and exhibition installation, from 16 September to 5 October.
20.00 mebrat / መብራት (2025) by Misiker Agulló, Adrasha
B4MBA (Ismaël N’Diaye Pont), music producer; Circular platform by Victor Ruiz Colomer in collaboration with Nicolas Regis Beliot (Mooki6) and Opo
30 minutes
Tuesday, 23 September
19.00 feed ♾️ back (2025) by Maguette Dieng
40 minutes
20.00 endless summer (2025) by Adam Christensen
45 minutes
where the turn tightens, a cowbell
The asphalt traces the reading path of the place in one direction. Suddenly, it is diverted by something that sounds like a cowbell. A flash that appears in the sharp and directed attention of the drive. One could imagine the animal lost, but the cowbell and the animal go at the rhythm of grazing along the road.
where the turn tightens, a cowbell is a programme dedicated to practices related to sound. It traverses everything that happens between speaker, place and body: it involves every part and questions for whom these structures we call sound systems serve and where they are going.
An interval is a pause between two moments, a suspended time when one thing stops so that another can begin. In music, an interval is the distance between two notes; in cinema, the break between two images; and in an art centre, it can be the space between exhibitions: a moment when the exhibition space is emptied but where processes, remains and memories still resonate. Interval takes this idea as a starting point and as an opportunity to unlearn and deprogramme the usual rhythms of the institution, exploring new ways of doing, thinking and inhabiting the exhibition space.
Interval #1 focuses on the practice of Noela Covelo Velasco, who explores the voice as material, medium and space for sound, in a journey that is increasingly closer to choral composition. The project traces a network of echoes and reverberations between artworks and artists, who tune in with their practice. For two nights and two weeks, these connections can be experienced at La Fabra Centre d’Art Contemporani.
