029 algorithmic accompaniment
028 high-performance computing
027 between utility and contradiction
026 outside recordings vol.5 _ sipoonkorpi 
025 additional thoughts on
024 signal extraction
023 avoinna joka päivä
022 fricciópressió
021 imagining new forms
020 akousma pt.II
019 an approach to resilience
018 one step back, everyone!
017 container
016 ōki-sa
015 experiri ensemble
014 outside recordings vol.4 _ japan
013 shinjuku electrical walk
012 three movements for cellphone
011 distorted tunes test
010 estudi modular
009 outside recordings vol.3 _ costa rica
008  1.1 plants are deceptive
007 akousma
006 soroll
005 las hojas 
004 outside recordings vol.2 _ bolivia
003 institute for new feeling 
002 outside recordings vol.1 _ iceland
001 (sub)urban plants



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cristian subirà hybrid sound documentalista



011 excerpt
sound installation _ 10 min _ 2023
XIII mostra sonora cc convent de sant agustí


amusia is the term given to a number of disorders that make it impossible to recognize or reproduce musical tones or rhythms; which can also lead to problems with writing or diction. it is estimated that 4% of the population suffers from amusia. it can be congenital, but in most cases it is acquired due to brain damage. there are several types of amusia, depending on the musical aspect it affects: motor amusia, whose clinical expression would be the inability to whistle or sing, and perceptive amusia, whose clinical expression is the inability to discriminate tones.
one way to warn or to be able to diagnose this perceptive amusia is through the distorted tunes test proposed here.


starting from the precepts raised in the 60s by david rosenhan or timothy leary, questioning the authority of certain medical institutions that advocate the control, labelling, stigmatization or abuse of drugs, distorted tunes test runs away from conspiracy theories, all and steal from these it’s low-cost bot aesthetics.

the proposal aims to approach sound phenomena and how it interacts with '(community) health', while raising questions linked or not to the context of a sound biennale; are we listening correctly? can we enjoy a piece if we suffer from disorders? Is a symptom a disease? are we heading towards the psychiatryzation of society?