Xesús Valle

Dialogos tactiles

The project I present is mostly based on the interaction between the artist and the landscape of Nodar, beyond a simple field recording in which the artist acts as a mere spectator.

Within this perspective,I started to develop a set of “dialogues with the landscape”, not just “on the landscape”, recording all kinds of sounds created by physical contact (percussive) with different types of vegetation(trees, bushes, plants) and ground (soil, stones, water), and additionally taking other alien elements also present in the landscape (such as objects left by the local inhabitants).

I created several improvised rhythms and structures (coming together from that encounter) that where used as the source material for a later digital process.

Each action arose from the natural attraction between my photographic approach and the textures of each element on the landscape (I later did a dossier with the photos I took on my first recognitions), bearing in mind the ability to generate sound from each element, as well as it’s plasticity.

Once the sound actions were made with the selected elements, I had the intent of taking the result out of the context, manipulating it digitally inorder to get the desired musicality.

A third part of the project was made of video actions based on the previousactions and recordings.

Xesús Valle was born in Vigo and is an audio & visual artist, percussionist, vocalist and Net DJ. Hestarted by studied persussion and vocal techniques and since the late 80’s formed several bands and personal projects.

Since 2002 Xesús develops two different audio projects, Plumbandplumber and Uveaele. With plumbandplumber he dedicates to the creation of electro acoustic collages from all sorts of sound sources (discography: “Come early go late”, “organic feedback” and “live set alga á superficie”) and with Uveaele he manipulates sound spaces (discography: “o forno das formulacións”). Part of his discography is published under “alg-a netlabel”, of which he was one of the managers.

Since 2002 Xesús has been performing in different spaces of Galicia and Portugal (IFI–Pontevedra, Salanasa–Santiago de Compostela, Vademecum–Vigo, Sinsalaudio–Vigo, 2005 Brg–Braga, etc.). He is one of the members of OMEGA, a Galician based experimental music orchestra.