Juan Duarte Regino & Sébastien Piquemal

Radio parasites

Between 10th and the 30th of October 2016, Juan Duarte Regino & Sébastien Piquemal carried out a series of activities during Playing the Rural Landscape residency at Binaural Nodar. For them, as sound practitioners, the interest was to begin a practice based research on the use of FM radio transmission as a medium for playful exploration. The radio mediumentails a grassroots technology that invites for appropriation in art.The artists proposed a project that would include a workshop with the local community of Vouzela, to experiment “hands on” the social, artistic and technical aspects of FM radio transmission. The project also allowed to explore the development of activities related to sound technology and field recording with students from different schools of Vouzela. The possibility of running a first version of this project enabled to gather in the same place all elements required to experiment within a transversal action between artists, Binaural Nodar, and the community of Vouzela.

Juan Duarte Regino & Sébastien were hosted in 2016 in the context of Playing the Rural Landscape artist residency cycle, fully dedicated to artist interventions around direct, tactile and expressive connections with the landscape of the Gralheira and Caramulo mountain ranges in central Portugal.

Juan Duarte Regino was born in Mexico City (1985) and works on interactions as a tool for generative art experiments through the exploration of digital and analog platforms as agents to transform that express materials both sonically and visually. His work has been presented in CTM Festival 2015, Spiral Gallery, AAVE Festival, Bonniers Konsthall, Rundum Showcase, ICLI 2014 , Ljudmila, Radio and TV Museum of Lahti, Centre for Contemporary Art–Ujazdowski Castle, Mänttä Art Festival. Since 2014 he is part of Pixelache–art and activist group based in Helsinki, bringing media art practices for social engagement, and technological appropriation.

Sébastien Piquemal is a french experimental musician and programmer living in Helsinki. Author of #WebPd & other open-source audio projects. Has been playing extensively in sound and media arts festivals, namely together with Tim Shaw.