HYB4 Hudba: Javier Areal Vérez (AR) | «ššš:um» #3

Curated series of music evenings focusing on experimentation, current trends and technologies in electronic music and examining the boundaries between sound production and multimedia. Javier Areal Vélez' (AR) will be the third to appear in the series.

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Javier Areal Velez

Argentine composer, improviser and pioneer in the field of experimental electronics. His work combines noisy, complex rhythmic structures with synthesis, robotics and light in performances at the edge of human and machine expression. He also engages in taxidermied electric guitar, where he prefers colour and rhythm to traditional forms. He has worked with the world's leading artists and performed across continents. He is the founder RUIDO Festival and a long-time curator of experimental music in Teatro Colón.

Semiautomático is a solo live electronic performance that, by layering generative rhythms of extra-human complexity, pushes the boundaries of the loop as a musical form. It combines independently evolving rhythmic structures with the logic of Latin American polyrhythms, setting them in a post-digital environment of noisy samples, raw synthesizers and disturbing effects. The music is fully improvised and oscillates between extremely complex rhythmicity and club-tuned experiment — depending on the space and context.

The project has been heard at festivals such as Tsonami (Chili), EXIT (Uruguay) and Primavera NOISE (Argentina) and was also featured during the European tour. In 2025, the first recordings will be released: an introductory EP and a debut album by a major German label focused on experimental electronics.