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Each Morning of the World #03
Central American PhoNographic Mornings #11/15
~ Bijao ~ Panama ~
«  Bijao »
David Velez
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The recordings presented here are part of my experience in the touristic complex of Bijao in Panama on January of 2013. 

The tension between the ecosystem and the intrusive architecture there was evident and this environmental contrast, and the subjacent anthropological and biological implications became the focus of my artistic interest. 

This was not about an ideal natural environment, but about an actual environment and how it could reflect questions of my interest. These recordings are about a hybrid habitat and the way the animals adapt their acoustic behaviour to the sounds of humans when they become part of their their environment.


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David Velez
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David Vélez is an artist working with contemporary, experimental and new music, sound art, sculpture and photography who also practices as a University Lecturer and as a Workshop Director. In his creative and research work, he is interested in how the aural aesthetic experience can help the listener to establish new relationships with his cultural, social, economical and environmental context.

David Vélez is currently a PhD Student at the Music, Humanities and Media School at the University of Huddersfield, UK where he won a Full Scholarship. Previously David acquired an MA degree in Fine Arts at the prestigious Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, Colombia.

David works as Co-founder and Editor of the research project Sonic Field, Co-founder of the sound art label Impulsive Habitat
Co-founder, and Manager and Curator at the Media Festivals Radar and Satélite, Colombia

In the academic field David has been a Guest Lecturer at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, a Lecturer at the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia and Full time Lecturer at the  CUN -Unified National Higher Education Council-, Colombia. He has also worked as workshop director at Plataforma Bogotá 2016-17, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño 2016, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín 2016, the MoMA, New York 2015 and Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia, 2013

David has won many convocactories for Residencies including FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France 2017, Residency Liminaria, Naples, Italy 2016, Polinaria, Pescara, Italy 2016, Tecnología Primitiva, Desierto de la Tatacoa, Colombia 2013 and Arteocupa, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brasil 2013.

David has presented his work in the FRAC des Pays de la Loire Museum - France, Casa Hoffman Gallery - Bogotá, Valenzuela Klenner Gallery - Bogotá, Pi Artworks -London, Espacio Odeon - Bogotá, the Umbral Festival, CDMX and Oaxaca, México 2016, the Mutek Sound and Music Festival, Bogotá 2015, the Arttec Media Festival, Bogotá 2015, El Festival de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia 2015, the Contemporary Temporary Sound Works And Music, New York 2015, the Scaledown Concert series, London 2013, the Aural Detritus Concert series, Brighton, UK 2013, the Fine Diving Concert series, New York 2008, the Red Room Concert series, Baltimore, US 2007, the {R}AKE Festival, New York, US 2007 and the Fotofono Concert series, New York, US 2006.

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