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SANTI VILANOVA
CEO Sound Research at Playmodes Studio
The BLABLANIGHTS Series returned on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, with a masterclass by Santi Vilanova, CEO of Sound Research at Playmodes. This session was held in collaboration with VOLumens, a Festival of Art, Music, Science, and Technology, whose sixth edition took place in Valencia from September 28 to October 1.
Playmodes is an audiovisual research studio with a hybrid team of engineers, musicians, and designers who work with proprietary technologies to bring new visual and sound instruments to life. They create immersive installations, stage designs, and video projection mapping, moving beyond traditional screens.
Their deep interest in the relationships between visual and auditory phenomena, as well as their skills in electronic music composition, allow them to create projects where sound and image are treated as a single medium. In most of their projects, the same data flows generate audio and graphics through their own software. Concepts such as real-time sonification of images or audio visualization are common in their latest works, shaping visual music pieces that create strong synesthetic perceptions in the audience.
Passionate about art, design, mathematics, physics, code, and nature, they share all these passions in conferences and workshops at universities, schools, or institutions. As part of a global network of creative engineers, they collaborate with teams worldwide to develop innovative projects, both in the cultural and commercial sectors.
In recent years, Playmodes has developed projects for light festivals around the world (Luma NY, Fête des Lumières, Signal, LlumBCN, Mapping Festival, LIT Bogotá, Chartres en Lumière…), for electronic music events (Sónar, Mira, LEV, DGTL, D4N …), for art institutions and festivals (Macao Arts Festival, In Between Time …), for commercial brands (Facebook, Genesis, Adidas, Cupra, Swarovski…), have released their sound works on electronic music labels ( “Plegat”, Discontinu Records ), and have received international awards in the field of New Media (Ars Electronica Prix, LAUS, Visual Music Award…).
+Info: https://www.playmodes.com/
+Info: https://volumens.es/
