sónar+D reveals full list of exhibitors including love hultén's works presented by designboom

Designboom presents works by love hultén at sónar+D

At Sónar+D, designboom is presenting the sound machines and synth works of Love Hultén (read our interview with him about the festival here) as part of the festival’s exhibition grounds. Sónar+D falls under the umbrella of Sónar 2024, Barcelona’s festival of music, innovation, and creativity, which runs from June 13th to 15th, 2024. During the three-day celebration, the use of AI in the creative industries becomes the main focus of, but not limited to, Sónar+D’s theme. Visitors to the Sónar+D can walk around the exhibitions and see, test, and experience creative technology and innovative art that employs research, AI-generated visuals, and experimental video games.

designboom presents Love Hultén at Sónar+D 2024 | images courtesy of Love Hultén

Synth and midi sound using plants and A crab

Inside the Project Area of Sónar+D, designboom welcomes visitors to the exhibition of some of Love Hultén’s sound-generating art, including a new machine tailored and made specially for the festival. Fans of this audiovisual artist are able to see and try out Sebastian, the MIDI Crab. In this machine, a keyboard with large-sized keys in white and red produces MIDI sounds when pressed, all the while the crab encased in a clock-looking container above moves, clinches and pinches its pincers and legs.

Tegel is set to make an appearance as well, which is Love Hultén’s sound sculpture based on the biodata derived from plants. Plants are also the heart of Love Hultén’s Desert Song sound machine, presented by designboom at Sónar+D. In this installation, a small device translates the biodata from organic material, the plants, into MIDI. The plants are not composing their own music, but simply giving their biofeedback, or the tiny changes in their electrical current. Love Hultén’s role is to echo these sounds into synth tunes, sharing them with the visitors of the festival too.

Full list of Sónar+D exhibitors unveiled

The Sónar+D’s exhibitors allow have a lot in store for their visitors during the event. These creatives and artists and their works include +RAIN Film Festival presented by UPF & Sónar+D, 3 out of 7 A MAZE. Awards 2024 Winners, Aalto University, All Our Minds, AlphaTheta, Andy Gracie x .NewArt { foundation;} – Massive Binaries, Anecoica Studio Sileno, ANTONUS, Arts Korea Lab, AudioStellar*, Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Art-driven innovation, BAU, Centre Universitari d’Arts i Disseny – SINAPSIS, Befaco, Candela Rodríguez x ESDI – (MI CUERPO DIGITAL) creación y extensión de identidades a través del arte digital, and Carla Molins-Pitarch – CITM (UPC) – Life Blocks, a Phygital Kinetic DNA Experience.

Included as well are: Col·lectiu Axolot – Eixam, Componental – Dubby, DataMind Audio – Combobulator, Endorphin.es, ESPRONCEDA / IMMENSIVA – KIELI, Ferran Lega Lladós – Thymus Vulgaris, FHV – Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences – FOHRAMOOS. Gabriel Helfenstein, Fantasia Malware – Okthryssia and Saturnia’s Bureaucratic Adventures, GameBCN – The videogame incubator, Harriet Davey and snake_case – Energy Drinks and Bisexual Lighting, IED Barcelona – Unwoven memories, Institute of Digital Fashion – WATCH, PLAY, SCAN, SIT, LAY on IoDF: Leanne Elliott Young and Cattytay, Intelligent Instruments lab, IRCAM Forum, Krea, La Salle – Campus Barcelona, LAURA BENETTON X IRB BARCELONA – WFP DANCE, LCI Barcelona – GROOVIFY, and Love Hultén presented by designboom.

Desert Songs | read more about it here

Visitors also expect projects and artworks from LOWKEYMOVES – Laura AI, Making Sound Machines, MONOGRID – Momentum, Moth Quantum – Quantum Sonification: Harness Qubits for Musical Innovation, mots – AI & Me: The Confessional and AI Ego, Music Technology Group, UPF – Essentia, Mutan Monkey Instruments, NANO Modules, Neuroelectrics – Enakd, Nina Protocol, OXI ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS, Patching Panda, Post-computer – Graphicsynth, Rhett TSAI (蔡宇潇) – How Deep Is the Dark Water? (乌水有多深) – With the support of Casa Asia, Roel Heremans – The NeuroRight Arcades, sbrk devices – zerua nahasi, Sebastian Schmieg – Prompt Battle Training Station, Segmento Futuro – Pas De Deux, Shared Campus, SOUND OBSESSED – Temporal Tide: Sonified Narratives for a Sustainable Future, and Stability AI – Stable Audio.

They can also witness Studio Above&Below – Regenerative Symphony With the support of S+T+ARTS in the City, Team Rolfes – 321Rule: T.R.A.C.T Explorer, Technology, Performance & Society / University of Music and Theatre Munich – Seven Things About Late Technoculture (academic papers for fast life), Tesseract Modular, The Generative Art Museum, This is Not Rocket Science, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (NTNU) – Artistic research and Entrepreneurship, UKRAiNATV / StreamArtStudio – EUROPEAN STREAM ART NETWORK – PROTOTYPING, and Vostok Instruments. During the exhibitions, technology and art are both used to create installations and artworks, from sounds to visuals as well as AI-generated productions.

Desert Songs