Thursday, March 5th at 6:00pm Sound / Simulacra is pleased to present Spanish artist, Rubén Alonso of Antropoloops at the O’Shaughnessy Educational Center (OEC) Auditorium, the University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN 55105 . Entry is free and open to the public. The evening will start with Alonso giving a talk and performance about his project Antropoloops. Afterward John C.S. Keston (piano, electronics) and Cody McKinney (bass, eletronics) will join Alonso for an improvised concert.
While studying architecture in Berlin in the late 1990s, Rubén Alonso fantasized about the romantic notion of the traveling ethnomusicologist who collects songs around the world, but the journey would begin years later, through the distributed archive of the web and from the music remix culture with the artistic project Antropoloops that he has been developing with Esperanza Moreno since 2012. With 4 albums published, the project has been presented in several festivals and spaces, both nationally and internationally (Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Chile, Argentina), as well as in several TEDx talks.
This event is co-sponsored by Carleton College and the University of St. Thomas College of Arts and Sciences departments of Emerging Media, Modern and Classical Languages, and Music.