Rarefacció 2025

Program
6:00 pm – Hugo Esquinca
7:30 pm – Elizabeth Davis
8:30 pm – MAKINA TRAX – ROC
9:30 pm – Coolkid2000

Rarefacció is celebrating its sixth edition with a condensed, one-day event at Sala Ricson on 14 November. This concentrated version preserves the essence of Hangar’s listening cycle, bringing together four proposals from distant territories that share a common drive for experimentation.

The evening will open with a multichannel intervention for excessive amplification conceived specifically for Ricson by Hugo Esquinca and CONDICIÓN_1125, testing the limits of both the system and its listeners.

Next up is Elizabeth Davis, an artist who defies categorisation and draws equally from musique concrète, radio drama, harsh noise and 20^(th)-century dance music. Expect something eclectically splendid.

The third act will be the Barcelona debut of MAKINA TRAX, a free interpretation of the Catalan makina tradition where Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (EVOL, Glues) bends, stretches and fractures the canon.

Coolkid2000, resident DJ of the Barcelona collective Me Siento Extraña and La Penca Radio, will close the night. Expect high BPMs and a genuine mix of makina, trance and nightcore to bring Rarefacció to a close with club-like energy.

Diego Bustamante designed this year’s visual identity, creating a typographic reinterpretation of graphical representations of the limits of hearing — and we think that’s beautiful.

Gratefully,

Albert Tarrats, curator of Rarefacció 2025.

Hugo Esquinca
Hugo Esquinca (Mexico City, 1990) produces actions and conditions using audio electronics at excessive amplification levels. His work has been presented in various contexts and venues such as EMPAC–New York, Stedelijk Museum, Muziekgebouw–Amsterdam, National Centre for Contemporary Arts NCCA–Moscow, Museum Nikola Tesla–Zagreb, Festspielhaus HELLERAU–Dresden, CONCRETE Alserkal–Dubai, Namba BEARS–Osaka, 20000V–Tokyo, MIRA Ploschad of Modern Art Siberia–Krasnoyarsk, Le Centquatre–Paris, Fondazione Antonio Ratti–Como, Ujazdowski Castle for Contemporary Art–Warsaw, Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina–Mexico City, ARTER Museum–Istanbul, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Akademie der Künste, Radialsystem, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Tresor, and Berghain–Berlin, among others.

Elizabeth Davis
Elizabeth Davis is a musician, composer, and audio engineer whose work uses the interplay of technological limitation, algorithmic processes, and human expression/intervention as subject matter. Her music—under her own name or prior alias Wilted Woman—has been released by labels such as Alien Jams, Psychic Liberation, Phantasy, and Superpang. She has presented her work at Sonic Acts (Amsterdam); MaerzMusik, 3HD Festival, and Transmediale (Berlin); Cafe Oto (London); ZKM (Karlsruhe); Fylkingen (Stockholm); and Triennale (Milano) amongst many other venues, festivals and art spaces across Europe and North America. Davis was born in the United States and lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

ROC (MAKINA TRAX)
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (Barcelona, 1975) is an artist whose work revolves around music, while also extending into visual arts and essay writing. He is part of the computer music group EVOL, alongside Scottish artist Stephen Sharp. His work explores processes of deformation applied to popular electronic music and has been released on labels such as Editions Mego, Diagonal, Reel Torque, Presto!?, Superpang, and ALKU, the publishing project he has co-directed since 1998.

Coolkid2000
Coolkid2000 fuses the characteristic sounds of their hometown, Benidorm, with main influences including makina, trance, and nightcore—reflected in their high-BPM sets and pitch-shifted vocals. Currently, they explore the balance between these styles and Barcelona’s musical influences, using the CDJ as a creative instrument. They have performed in clubs such as Razzmatazz, Upload, and El Pumarejo in Barcelona, Teatro Magno in Madrid, Barraca in Valencia, and in countries including Germany and Japan. They have collaborated with radio stations such as PNCR (Spain), BOMBO (Spain), Sphere Radio (Germany), Room303 (Japan), and Tokyo Beer Lab (Japan), and performed at festivals including SOM VALÈNCIA and Embassa’t. Coolkid2000 is a resident DJ with the Barcelona collective Me Siento Extraña and the project La Penca Radio.