Polifeme

Polifeme is the art project of María Cervelló Llorca (Valencia, 1986), working at the intersection of sound art, technology, and experimental performance. Her practice translates invisible electromagnetic, electrical, and luminous phenomena from several obsolete media into immersive sound, treating machines as active sonic agents rather than passive tools.

Throughout her research, she explores how images—particularly from cathode-ray screens—generate electromagnetic fields that can be captured and rendered audible. In doing so, she transforms the screen from a representational surface into a resonant object, dissolving the boundaries between seeing and hearing.

Xavier Paes & Inês Tartaruga

Inês Tartaruga Água and Xavier Paes (Porto, 1994) are visual artists whose work emerges at the crossroads of performance, sound, and visual media. Since 2015, they have maintained an ongoing collaboration, delving into ecological processes and their embodied resonances. Committed to radical renewal, curious about sonic landscapes, and aligned with DIY ethics, they engage in collective and participatory approaches within public spaces, guided by improvisation, activism, and multi-instrumental experimentation.

Enrique del Castillo

Enrique del Castillo (Jaén, 1982) is a Spanish sound artist and musician whose practice bridges experimental music and visual art expanded cinema. Trained in both classical music and Fine Arts, his work centers on the transformation of light into sound through self-built instruments and optical systems.

Using repurposed parts from vintage projectors, he creates his own optical readers, so-called Umbráfonos, that translate patterns on 35mm film into sound. Blending mechanical processes, these hybrid machines—part instrument, part automaton—generate immersive soundscapes for performances and installations. His ongoing research explores analogue optical reading and the transcription of sonic frequencies into visual patterns on celluloid.

Hegoa

Over the last few years, the Basque imprint Hegoa, has taken great strides toward illuminating the shadowy world of contemporary music emerging from the Basque region, an autonomous community in northern Spain with its own distinct cultural traditions and language. The label, now a non-profit organisation, focuses on promoting old and contemporary experimental music, cross-generational and interdisciplinary.

Real No Real

Real No Real is a non-profit arts organization based in Madrid. Operating in independent spaces, it brings together a series of performances and workshops mainly revolving around experimental music and sound art with occasional incursions into other disciplines, bridging past and contemporary creation.