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Audio Control Turn on Yuval's sonic flow
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Solo exhibition

LOOP Festival City Screen 2021
curated by Savina Tarsitano
Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture, Barcelona, Spain – 13 – 22 November, 2021
https://www.human-signs.com/exhibition/

HUMAN SIGNS LOOP/ED is the first physical exhibition of HUMAN SIGNS since its creation during the first Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020. This global participatory voice and gesture artwork is presented as an immersive polyptych installation with 7 parallel projections and a site-specific installation made of daily objects allowing viewers to merge into their own emotional worlds, surrounded by the choral work of 218 artists from over 50 countries.

“During the lock-down, the world stopped, a historical moment that cannot be forgotten in oblivion, art, creativity, critical thinking have rebelled against that status quo, that emotional immobility. Art responds and Yuval Avital has called to action not only the artists but an entire community to a participatory, symbolic act with a great evocative force to join forces and act together with the pain of closure, suffering and death.

The bodies, the voices merge together in an act of peace and solidarity. From empty houses, from the silence of death and loneliness, from immobility, voices and bodies rise, giving life to a collective work that breaks the boundaries of cultures, of territoriality to unite together in a virtual and real world. From this point of view, the Human Signs project fits perfectly into the Loop festival and the theme of the body, in the very poetics of movement and the evocation of the gesture, as a radiography of human existence. Every gesture, every movement of the body is a story, a story of a historical moment of our existence. The body that tells the story.

Human Signs invites artists to act not only as artists but as human beings, to unite the different social stratifications, generations, cultures, and humanities with art. Art evolves, artists reflect and translate the historicity of a given moment, and in this historical phase, post-covid artists are called more than ever, not to redefine their role in society, but rather to heal wounds, the fractures, the discrepancies that emerged with greater holes during Covid-19.”
Excerpt from the curatorial text by Savina Tarsitano, curator

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Massive Sonic Works:

/ˈmæsɪv ˈsɒnɪk wɜːrks/

Large-scale performances using collective participation to create powerful sound masses.

Yuval Avital’s “Massive Sonic Works” or “Opera di Massa Sonora” involves the creation of large-scale performances that utilize collective participation to craft a unique sound experience. These works focus on forming powerful sound masses through the collaboration of numerous performers, exploring new possibilities through sound rituals. The compositions often include graphic visual elements, written music, and easy-to-read instructions to allow interpretation by individuals without prior musical experience. This approach, sometimes involving hundreds of participants, aims to create what can be described as “crowd music.”

Some key works in Avital’s repertoire include:

– GARON (2012): An opera for 45 bass tubas do, percussions, and a crowd of performers.

– KARAGATAN (2013): A composition for 100 gongs and bamboo in the Philippines.

– REKA (2014): Commissioned by the Warsaw Autumn Festival and co-produced by the MiTo festival in Milan, involving traditional singers from unique cultures such as Tibetan, Zulu, Sardinian, Mongolian, and Samarkand traditions.

One of Avital’s significant compositions is MISE EN ABÎME, a milestone work that marks the beginning of his “Massive Sonic Works” series. Premiered in 2011, this composition involves a large ensemble of 100-200 non-musician vocalists, accordions, bass tubas, soprano, bass clarinet, percussions, didgeridoo, and conductors directing the performance in an immersive setup.

Another notable work is URLA, an immersive sonic experience with over 300 performers, showcasing diverse musical traditions in Matera, Italy. This piece combines traditional elements with modern instrumentation, theatrical actions, and innovative technological approaches, reflecting Yuval Avital’s interdisciplinary and transcultural artistic vision.

Yuval Avital’s creations blend complexity, cultural diversity, and technological innovation to create immersive and participatory sonic experiences that push the boundaries of traditional music composition and performance.