This year we are advancing our calendar and will celebrate our 13th edition from July 4th to 14th in different natural and heritage spaces of the Terres de l’Ebre with a program that will strengthen the link between art and science, and its relationship with environmental concerns, natural heritage, and the gastronomy of the region. Below, we offer you a preview of the program and the new projects for this 2024: Eufònic Terra, BotCamp, and Co-Vision.

Art Installations

Lo Pati Art Center in Amposta will premiere the new sound installation by the Dutch artist and composer Edwin van der Heide, an immersive piece created with compressed air valves and no speakers that activates the space through rhythm. In Tortosa and Ulldecona, we will see “El jardí de les delícies” by Anna Rierola, a digital art piece that recreates El Bosco’s homonymous work from images collected by the Barcelona Biomedical Research Institute, and the collective formed by scientists Vanessa Balagué and Pablo Sánchez with the artist Alba G. Corral and the creative studios Playmodes and SHOOK Studio will premiere “Thalastasi. La simfonia de l’oceà que il·lumina els invisibles”, a piece that highlights marine microorganisms to understand life on Earth through generative code, 3D design, and visual and sound elements based on the global marine microbiome DNA.

Artists in Residence

We will also see the results of the 13th edition of the Eufònic / Lo Pati Creative Residencies: “Fonópteros” by Madrid-based Miguel Aparicio, a sound installation of robotic insects that will recreate the aquatic and terrestrial sound landscape of different spaces in the Delta; and “Santuario” by Asturian Alba Matilla, an installation with video game forms created from photogrammetry of the Ebro landscape.

Creative Sustainability

As part of the 4th STNBL call for recovering previously produced works, we will give a second life to “Human Learning” by Eneritz Tejada, a non-normative dance piece that incorporates technological devices; also to the installation “Òrbita #3.5 | Una pell distant” by Núria Nia and Citlali Hernández, a dialogue between human microbiota, personal data that inhabit the Internet, and algorithms that operate in the production of contemporary bodies and subjectivities; and to the impactful A/V performance “Dins de la llum” by PoleTwo, a duo of Barcelona artists who play with the senses through the saturation of light and darkness.

Introducing Eufònic Terra

We are launching a new programming line that reinforces the landscape character of the festival and links two unique elements of the Ebro regions: oil and clementines, protected products and drivers of the local economy. The Eufònic Terra programming, intertwined with the general festival programming, will propose a series of site-specific sound actions and musical performances in unique spaces such as oil cooperatives, olive fields, and local gastronomies, some of them in new locations inland of the Montsià region such as La Sénia or Godall. A celebration of the territory’s singularity in a project that bets on local talent, enhances innovation, and promotes inclusion.

BotCamp: digital residencies

From July 5th to 7th, in the small town of Bot (La Terra Alta), we will hold the first edition of the BotCamp project around automations, bots, and generative code. Four mentors representing the best digital art made in Catalonia – Alba G. Corral, Anna Carreras, Antònia Folguera, and Irma Vilà – will lead the project. Registrations to participate in it, including two nights of stay in a hostel located in an old mill, will open in May.

Co-Vision – Mapping the Natural Heritage

In parallel to the festival celebration, we join forces with seven European festivals in the Co-Vision project, which aims to co-produce cultural content around environmental challenges and with the participation of citizens, artists, and local entities. We will address through artistic means important issues such as the effects of the climate emergency on our daily lives and what we consume, as well as on the natural heritage of the territory. The other European festivals participating in this project are Videocittà (Italy), Transilvania Trust (Romania), KIKK (Belgium), LAB852 (Croatia), ADAF (Greece), Rencontres Audiovisuelles (France), and Signal (Czech Republic).

>> The 13th edition of Eufònic introduces a new figure: a 13-year-old curator. A regular attendee of the festival’s most iconoclastic proposals in recent editions, Llibert Espuny is also the protagonist of this edition’s image, created by the Barcelona-based studio wearejoin.

>> Soon we will announce the entire Eufònic program and the new format of Eufònic Pro, which will be held on July 11th and 12th at the Escola per l’Art i la Cultura de Tortosa and at the Casal Tortosí.