Onar

Onar (HYPAR + Maria Mora) invites us to explore intimate and collective memory through improvisation, sound and movement.

Created by violoncellist Clara Torner and live electronics artist Gerard Erruz, HYPAR works within the genres of experimental music, ambient music, noise music and free improvisation. In these genres, contemporary music techniques and digital media harmonise and feed into one another to create new soundscapes.

The process begins with an exploration of mimesis, transformation and the contrast between ambient and instrumental sounds. This gives rise to narratives that unfold within a sound ecosystem reminiscent of dreams and memories, constructed from fragments, images and recollections.

With the presence of Maria Mora, the body dances with sound in a space of shared indeterminacy, where each gesture and each vibration redirects what is unfolding. Improvisation becomes a field of deep listening and constant transformation, a place where the boundaries between sound and body grow blurred.

This experience invites the audience to suspend their disbelief and allow themselves to be moved by whatever happens. It is a space-time in which dreams and memories, gestures and sounds intertwine until they become a single entity.

Activity curated by Mixtur Festival

With the participation of HYPAR and Maria Mora


HYPAR

HYPAR is a free-improvisation duo formed by Clara Torner (violoncello) and Gerard Erruz (live electronics). The project was born during a residency at the Centre i Teatre de Sarrià in Barcelona in 2023, supported by a research and innovation grant from the Government of Catalonia’s Cultural Initiative Support Office (OSIC).

They have performed at various improvisation venues and events across Catalonia, including Gràcia Territori Sonor’s “GTS Presenta” series, Ateneu La Base’s “Free Brull” series, Soda Acústic’s “Nocturna Discordia” series, the Sinestesia performing arts hall and Cardedeu's Cicle Indeterminat.

https://gerarderruz.com/hypar
https://www.youtube.com/@hyparproject/videos 


Maria Mora

Maria Mora is an improviser and choreographer, a member of the Axis Syllabus research network and a certified practitioner of biodynamic craniosacral therapy. Her work explores biomechanics, anatomy and the somatic experience of movement, as well as real-time composition and improvisation.

She is part of Free’t Soundpainting and the VICINI project, where she investigates tensegrity as an artistic concept and as a tool to denounce the genocide of the Palestinian people. Among her works are Quasi serenor, Ascendent and the duet MOOM.