CAS is an artists´collective created in 2015 in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Founded by Matías Ygielka, Andrés García and Damián Alférez. It emerged as a medium for the creation and editing of sound art, experimental music, video art and graphic pieces, as well as an open platform for intermedial experimentation. The actions of the collective include the creation of graphic pieces, woodcuts, musical works, as well as collective curatorships with the interest of putting the creation of work in dialogue with other artists.. Throughout these years, he has participated in various meetings and art fairs, and has tried to promote exchanges with artists and groups in other parts of the globe, in the search for new sound and visual aesthetics that open the creative field in which does his job. CAS also works as a record label, in which it has published its own works as well as those of different emerging musicians and sound artists, always seeking to implement new forms of collective creation and expansion of practices towards other disciplines. The work of the collective, apart from the development of the work, focuses on exploring new forms of exchange and promoting cooperative artistic works.
Bön is a multidisciplinary project that had its origin in the creation of a sound piece consisting of the combination of 2 constant frequency currents, one emitted acoustically and the other electrically and field recordings.
The sounds that are heard come from records of Tibetan Bowls from Nepal, India, which were recorded inside limestone clay caves, outside the city of Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina. To these records is added a frequency of electric current emitted by a synthesizer and field recordings.
The visual projections of this visual piece created by Giovanni Zapata, are images processed in real time with generative algorithms. Each symbol belongs to a graphic development created by Damián Alférez through the creation of 7 symbols, plus a main symbol as an alchemical stamp.
Video-performance directed by Roman Murillo, recorded in an old theater in Puerto Madryn and as a pre-release for the next BIN ep.
The malambo is a traditional Argentine folk dance, although it is not solely a dance. It is an expression that leads the human being to delve inside, the dancing body being the musical instrument itself. It is a tradition that reflects the desolate landscapes of their land. The choreography of the malambo is made up of a series of combined movements, being the footwork the movement that constitutes the essence of the dance. The kick of the footwork invokes ancestral cultures, rhythms that are born from the depth of the human being; a vehicle to express the loneliness, exile and isolation of peoples traversed by the history of Latin America.
video-installation without time limit/
excerpt made to present at Arte BA 2018, within a framework curated by Laura Kalauz -"The pleasure of consuming"- within the UV gallery,
sound: aaoai
full piece: https://aaoai.bandcamp.com/album/oollll
aaoai is salvador dos santos and martín recto
