BoomBox · Dossier #01 [eng]

Dance Music Audiovisuals Performing Arts Art Installation

To create temporary autonomous parties

A boombox, boom box, radio cassette recorder, radio cassette or Radiographer (in Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico and Chile) is a portable stereo audio capable of playing music from radio or recorded stations - usually on cassettes, CDs or USB flash drives - and with a relative sound power.

A temporary autonomous party

in movement What is BoomBox

BoomBox is an itinerant audiovisual project that multimedia artist Azael Ferrer has created to tour cities, festivals and unconventional spots in a ludic and urban drift that invites everyone to get away, for a while, from the limited and boring experience of urban spaces.

A performance of music, dance and light, that in reality is not a performance in itself, but a free, autonomous and ephemeral event to spontaneously celebrate the here and now.

Check out the video of our first ride

Manifest

BoomBox is born from a desire to question, from a situationist and totally festive point of view, much of the underlying approach in our cities’ design, which is to systematize everything in such a way that, in your movements from a point A to a point B within your city, you wouldn’t plan or deviate an alternative enjoyment of the urban space (beyond sitting on the terrace of a bar).

Thus, through BoomBox (designed as an autonomous container with practically zero environmental impact), Azael and his collaborators generate a temporarily autonomous zone in motion. A spontaneous party in the middle of the street to question this and other approaches of the current urban design, claiming your right to enjoy the here and now on the street, the place where all good things begin (and await to be lived in).

BoomBox is a box that doesn’t lock its contents (dance, music, audiovisuals, theater); instead of this, it opens up and deploys all of them around itself to attract a party which claims to enjoy the «here and now»

CONTENTS A temporary and autonomous party, on the move 1. What is BoomBox 2. Manifest A box full of surprises 1. Artistic platform 2. Anatomy of the BoomBox 3. Other uses Creators and project partners Contact

Dance

Music

Audiovisuals

Performing Arts

Art installation

A box

full of surprises

CONTENTS A temporary and autonomous party, on the move 1. What is BoomBox 2. Manifest A box full of surprises 1. Artistic platform 2. Anatomy of the BoomBox 3. Other uses Creators and project partners

Artistic Platform

BoomBox is not only an agitator device: it is also a platform for artists from different disciplines, urban or not (music, dance, performing arts) to have fun improvising a party in movement in which its creation on the fly is the claim, motor and sustenance for a temporary and autonomous show.

The artists needed for this project are not fixed: although the majority belong to the circle of collaborators of Azael Ferrer around Europe and the United States, BoomBox is open to mix with creative creators who wish to be part of the temporarily autonomous zones generated in its trail, where the enjoyment of the moment and the free expression of all (artists and audience) are the only rules of the game.

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2. Energy

BoomBox incorporates a powerful 250ah Trojan battery and solar panels to make your temporary and autonomous parties running in a clean and respectful way with the environment.

1. Structure

BoomBox is a handcrafted metal structure, molded, punched and sanded to have a desired industrial finish.

Designed for easy transportation and use of space for the show.

Anatomy of the BoomBox

BoomBox is an independent container and generator of experiences with an autonomy of several hours (4 to 8 hours, depending of its use).

Thanks to the battery and solar panel that incorporates, it can operate its own sound system, video projector and tools and the own ones of the possible collaborators that add up to roll out their creativity.

Images of the construction process carried out in the warehouse of the sculptor Fran Coronado

3. LED Technology

BoomBox breathes light thanks to its complex LED lighting system, a ‘’pixel mapping’’ technology composed of 175 individually programmable led lights, so it can display messages and light sets combined with sound.

CONTENTS A temporary and autonomous party, on the move 1. What is BoomBox 2. Manifest A box full of surprises 1. Artistic platform 2. Anatomy of the BoomBox 3. Other uses Creators and project partners Contact

4. Sound System

BoomBox has its own amplification system (X2 loudspeakers) and sound board to connect to instruments and give voice and volume to your itinerant celebration.

BoomBox could be the perfect claim to disclose

the philosophy of your event, while you advertise it

in the most immediate means that exists: the street.

CONTENTS A temporary and autonomous party, on the move 1. What is BoomBox 2. Manifest A box full of surprises 1. Artistic platform 2. Anatomy of the BoomBox 3. Other uses Creators and project partners

Other uses

BoomBox is not only a generator of experiences around art.

Nor is it reduced to being a revolting and festive artistic platform.

It can also be a loudspeaker to spread (always from celebration) messages, events and important appointments.

Inserted within the framework of a festival of outdoor culture (whether music, theater or any other type), BoomBox can be the perfect claim to publicize the philosophy of your event, while giving you publicity in the more immediate medium that exists: the street itself.

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Who is

behind the project Creators

Collaborators Azael Ferrer

Paloma PeĂąarrubia

Multimedia Artist azaelferrer.com

Musician, composer. Producer lasfloresnolloranmusic.com

Fran Coronado

Eskarnia

Sculptor

Musician, composer. Actress. Poet

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eskarnia.com

Chinowski Garachana Musician, sound activist tesladream.org

Alexis Cruzado Graphic designer, copywriter @behance

CONTENTS

Let’s join our

common grounds We do not have a fixed direction, but we want you to find us.

So, if you have come here, it is because you are interested in our temporary and autonomous parties.

If you want to join or to propose us a plan, don’t be shy and tell us!

azaelferrer@gmail.com +34 722 569 494

A temporary and autonomous party, on the move 1. What is BoomBox 2. Manifest A box full of surprises 1. Artistic platform 2. Anatomy of the BoomBox 3. Other uses Creators and project partners Contact

We are isolated and solitary islands.

But no. It’s just what they want us to believe.

Claim and live your right to enjoy the here and now.