Touch•me•not with Hara Alonso

Touch•me•not emerges as a reflection on the relationship between the skin and what surrounds it: a surface, the ocean, a dried flower. Experiencing sound as matter that permeates the body as weight and texture, the skin becomes a transducer. Through a deep listening experience, Hara Alonso and Ellen Söderhult take the audience on a sensory journey oscillating between hypersensitive intimacy and dense emotional layers. How can we touch sound and be touched by it? Hara Alonso weaves a collage of field recordings, ASMR, piano, voice and nostalgic synthesizers that, together with the visuals of filmmaker Miguel G. Morales, generate an audiovisual loom where the listener finds himself back in the dream. About Hara Alonso: Hara Alonso is a pianist, composer and sound artist. His compositional process is based on bodily experience, exploring multisensory practices, memory, space and imagination as instruments for sound creation. His music has been presented at many festivals in the form of ensemble, soloist, sound installation and electroacoustic music. In recent years he has expanded the timbral and interpretive possibilities of the piano through extended techniques, somatic practices and signal processing. His sound universe, described as 'gloomy bubbling electronic power ambient', navigates between granular landscapes, minimalist rhythms and hypnotic layers with a strong microlyrical presence. He has taught composition, musical programming and improvisation classes at The Royal College of Music (KMH) in Stockholm, at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona and at the School of Creative Music in Madrid.