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Este video refleja el trabajo de campo realizado por los participantes del taller de comunicación Ideagora impartido por Sergio López Figueroa en la ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , durante las jornadas de Implosión Cultural el 19 de Marzo de 2011. La captura de información tuvo lugar durante una visita a uno de [...]
Shared Voices, the power of genuine communication Are evaluation forms the best to tool to capture the impact of your organisation’s work? What about using the power of video for web distribution and involve a number of stakeholders in the making? The value lies on a diverse representation of stakeholders, customers and influencers being engaged [...]
What is Global City Symphony? Summary: Following a 2009 Delhi pilot, Big Bang Lab presents Global City Symphony, a digital media project using music, archive media, participatory documentary and silent digital films to connect disadvantaged communities around the world. A future creative learning and knowledge sharing platform in a network of seven cities will allow [...]
Collective interviews video co-created by participants to the VII Campus of Cultural Cooperation which took place in November – December 2010 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, organized by Interarts. To learn more about Euroamericano, the VII Campus of Cultural Cooperation, click here alturl.com/x32tx Music soundtrack composed and performed by Javier Infante, from Gran Canaria javierinfante.com [...]
The video was produced by Big Bang Lab for Otakar Kraus Music Trust, a leading music therapy charity based in Twickenham, London. The video is used as promotional and evaluation tool showing the process during a series of creative music workshops involving children with disabilities and their siblings. They all participated together in a Summer [...]
Sergio López Figueroa in conversation with five participants of the conference ¨”Culture and the Policies of Change”, the 2nd Culture Watch Europe Conference, Brussels, 6-7 September 2010. We discussed briefly over the lunch break issues of sustainability, artists in the community, new creative opportunities as well as accessibility to a diverse range of cultural experiences [...]
How culture and media can play a role to reduce poverty and increase social cohesion in cities? In 2009 the founder and director of Big Bang Lab, Sergio López Figueroa, received an award from the British Council, part of the Cultural Leadership Programme. He worked in Delhi with Prayas an NGO supporting underprivileged children in Delhi. [...]
CSR as Cultural Social Responsibility. Delhi City Symphony Film screening + networking event The Hub King’s Cross 18th February 7 pm Booking http://globalcitysymphony.eventbrite.com • Why is culture outside of CSR or under represented by social enterprises? • Are cultural enterprises committed to social change? • What is the common language of CSR, Cultural and Social Enterprises? Come and [...]
Sergio Lopez has been invited as keynote speaker by Notre Dame University to contribute to the CityStreet conference in Lebanon on Friday 20th November. Sergio will be introducing the model of City Symphony and cultural social responsibility in the context of the city including the screening of the documentary Building Fragments produced by Big Bang [...]
“It’s up to us to advocate the role of culture by simply doing”, interview with Sergio López Figueroa Lab for culture is a platform for cultural cooperation between Europe and the rest of the world representing 50 countries and 6 languages, working with artists, arts and culture organisations and cultural professionals. Big Bang Lab’s director [...]
Big Bang Lab as a member of the Citizens’Coalition for Public Service Broadcasting (CCPSB) supports the consultation report in relation to A Response to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on the Consultation: ‘Sustainable independent and impartial news; in the Nations, locally and in the regions’. Response of the Citizens’ Coalition for Public [...]
The outcome of this project is a new silent digital film (8 mins) as part of a collaborative interdisciplinary creative learning project, created and delivered by Sergio López Figueroa for Brent Holocaust Memorial Day
Len Lye Chronosome 6 December – 17 March at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. New Plymouth, New Zealand The film Tusalava will be projected on a floating screen in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition and synched to three different soundtracks on a loop, including Mutantis, the score originally produced by Big Bang Lab for [...]
Special screening featuring a live programme of new music scores created by Sergio López Figueroa to a range of classic avant-garde and experimental silent films commissioned by Tate modern / Dalí exhibition. “Yes, live music set to film can be a joy”. The Guardian The scores for nine strings, piano, percussion, soprano [...]
Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of Clonic Mutations programme. UN CHIEN ANDALOU Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, France 1929 (from Tate modern programme) Dalí and Buñuel wrote Un Chien Andalou in a matter of weeks in early 1929. It was shot in Paris and ready for viewing by June [...]
Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of Clonic Mutations programme. EL HOTEL ELECTRICO Segundo de Chomón, Spain/France 1904 (from Tate modern programme) A couple -performed by the director and his wife Julienne Mathieu- arrive as customers to a hotel where everything works automatically. One of the best known films by [...]
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A contemporary silent animation winner of the best music award at SCIFE 07, short film festival (Spain) Director: Jonay Ortiz de Urbina Original music: Sergio López Figueroa Sound recording and mastering: Tenth Egg, Nick Barron “Homeland” tells the adventures of two characters who look for a place to settle. It is a tale of belonging [...]
Creative Partnerships cross curriculum project combining music and maths Big Bang Lab and the curriculum Who says maths has to be boring? Year 7 and Year 8 students had an opportunity to explore the relationship between graphic notation, geometry, music composition and moving images using a balloon orchestra! We use photography and flash animation during [...]
Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of Clonic Mutations programme.
UN CHIEN ANDALOU Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, France 1929
(from Tate modern programme) Dalí and Buñuel wrote Un Chien Andalou in a matter of weeks in early 1929. It was shot in Paris and ready for viewing by June that year. Violent, funny, illogical and dynamic, it proved to be one of the most extraordinary films ever made. Disavowing all traditional ideas of narrative, the film courts the irrational to capture an unsettling vision of desire.
Buñuel originally chose recorded music by Wagner and popular tangos to accompany the screenings of the film. Clonic Mutations, Sergio López Figueroa’s new score, seeks to further articulate de non-narrative structure of the film and to dive into the internal world of the characters. The couple featured in the film are treated much like animated characters, and the music includes a tango to underscore the chase scene leading to the famous climax of the film.
A surprise moment is deliberately created when the music and the film seem to be going in different directions, until gradually the flow of the nonsense starts to make sense. The score starts from a single short cell, developing and yet mutating continuously as the characters do. López Figueroa looked back at historical music references from the late 1920`s through expresionism. The final result is an eclectic mix of post-romanticism and Latin jazz elements integrated in a score full of black humour and decadent romanticism.
AWARDS
Harlock award to Clonic Mutations, score for Un Chien Andalou at Rimusicazioni Film Festival, Bolzano (Italy).
PERFORMANCES
2000 Premiere at Ribermusica Festival. Barcelona, Garoe ensemble
2003 Les 3 chiens, Mercat de les Flors. Barcelona, Barcelona 216
2007 Clonic Mutations, Dalí at Tate modern exhibition. London, Clarion ensemble
2008 Berlinale – Buñuel retrospective, Volksbühne. Berlin. Barcelona 216
2008 Invitation au Voyage, ICA. London (Tate live recording)