'Music for a Problem. The Decomposed Archive' Exhibition
29 October 2026 – 14 February 2027 · 10:00
Sala d'Exposicions Temporals, el Fort Pienc, Eixample
Music for a Problem is a project by Gerard Valverde Ros and Marc Villanueva, curated by Difraccions. Between 1972 and 1994, Catalonia went through a process of transformation that left its mark on artistic production and contemporary music. In the midst of the transition, as global governance shifted and Barcelona prepared for the Olympic Games, a generation of musicians faced public apathy and the difficulty of bringing audiences closer to contemporary music. While originality and creativity were being championed, more commercial music was filling up with synthesisers and software that increasingly automated music production. The Music for a Problem installation is based on the digitisation of recordings from the 2nd Contemporary Music Week, held in Barcelona in 1989, and offers the chance to recompose the sonic remnants of that festival in a playful and critical way. It is a magnetic instrument, inspired by the Stokos IV (a synthesiser created by Lluís Callejo and Phonos in the early 1970s), which allows various sound parameters of the archive material to be modified in real time, turning the questions and debates of the past into questions that resonate in our present. Music…
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 2 November 2026