Agnès Pe. Scherzo no. 19 (for circuits, air and synthesis)

a circuit deteriorating

a file that is corrupted

feedback that rises too much

Sound as a physical material: not a vehicle, but a presence. It doesn’t explain; it is. Its meaning does not come from an external interpretation, but from its qualities—texture, density, form—and how it directly affects the body. Relating to the work does not involve decoding, but immersion in a material regime that goes beyond language to work on the boundary between perception and experience. Listening is taken to the limit: a loop deteriorating, a file corrupted, feedback that rises too much. In a broken, disjointed way, the fragmentation prevents an unequivocal narrative. Matter makes sense through presence and interruption, opening up spaces of uncertainty. Thus, the work becomes a field of intensities: accumulation, fracture and residue in which sound, as a physical body, persists and is transformed.

Agnès Pe pursues her artistic practice at the intersection between sound experimentation, digital artefacts and subversive pop culture. She works with sound as her raw material, exploring its ability to question conventions, cause dissonances and generate new narratives.

Her work centres on forgotten sound infrastructures, technological errors and obsolete devices, which she recovers and turns into creative tools. Using sound collage, plunderphonics, digital alteration and computer music, she sees creation as a playful, experimental process that does not seek closed answers, but spaces for friction and dialogue with the listener’s expectations. Her practice straddles sound experimentation, experimental radio and public space, always seeking alternative forms of dissemination and reception of sound.

Her work has been presented at Conde Duque, Matadero, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and CA2M (Madrid), at Tabakalera (San Sebastián), at Centro Botín (Santander), at MACBA (Barcelona), at Centre d’Art La Panera (Lleida), at Larraskito (Bilbao) and at the V2 Institute for the Unstable Media (Netherlands), as well as at festivals like BangFace (United Kingdom), Papiripar (Germany), Counterflows (Scotland) and Piksel (Norway). She has worked with RRS (Radio Museo Reina Sofía), RadioOn (Berlin) and Resonance Extra (United Kingdom).

She currently lives and works in Barcelona, where she combines teaching, radio production and sound experimentation.

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