In a context where people move around the space, Shiopi tries to highlight the listening process. Shiopi presents itself as a Sound_Installation/Sound_Object that explores three main concepts through a listening exercise: Silence, Nature and Sonification of the Invisible. The name Shiopi comes from the Greek word Siopí, which means silence, and the onomatopoeia sh, used to ask for silence.
Silence is understood as an open space to listen. Thus, the search of silence aims to enhance the listening process. Besides, this search must be a collective effort. The sonification of the invisible is made by measuring the temperature, humidity, ambient-light and uv radiation and mapping the information to create different sounds in real time. These sounds are only audible when there is silence in the exhibition space.
The sounds generated through sonification are mixed with field recordings of natural environments of the North of Spain. These nature sound filed recordings are always present, despite the level of silence. However, only when the exhibition space is focused on listening, the sounds generated through sonification appear, creating the illusion of a magical natural environment. On the contrary, when there is a considerable level of noise in the installation space we can’t hear these sounds and a disruptive noise appears. This noise is created measuring the fundamental frequency of the space in real time.
Melisa Cano (Spain, 1990) is a pianist and sound artist focused on contemporary music, free impro and new ways of sound expressions. Although she is an artist with classical music academic background, her artistic work aims to explore and experiment with sound using it as a bruit material: electronic sounds created with supercollider/PureData, soundscape recordings, extended techniques in different instruments...etc; combining these materials with improvisation, intuition and our natural environment. As a performer, she likes to explore different sound effects produced inside the piano sound box and the strings such harmonics, scraping or muting strings. She is co-lead of n0n0is, a free-impro group where she plays the piano, oramics_live, programmed sensors, lyre and tambourine. This year, n0n0is has realeased their first album: https://nonois.bandcamp.com.
ONICяA is her artistic name for sound art works: Onirical-Nuances + Irreverent-Creations + Realistic Attitude https://onicramelisacano.bandcamp.com
Currently, her main projects are Oramics_back_to_life (ORAMICS_live) and SHIOPI. Oramics_live is a live version of Oramics, the graphic sound synthesizer by Daphne Oram, for iPad/tabled that she has programmed with PureData and Mobmuplat (https://youtu.be/j6EJRS2f97U). It was a final project for her studies in electroacoustic composition, and she uses as an instrument for free improvisation. SHIOPI is a sound installation/sound object that explores three main concepts: silence-nature-listening. It was programmed with supercollider and puredata, using different sensors for temperature, humidity and uv. She is also currently working in soundscape works processed in supercollider, for her first solo album, using field recordings of different places in Europe (Spain, Bosnia Herzagovina, Croatia, Greece, etc).
Oramics_Live was presented in the last edition of Piksel Festival (Norway). The free impro group n0n0is has given different concerts and participated in a variety of projects with other artists (visual artists and dance), improvising the music for silent movie "Der müde Tod", or designing the sound for a theatre play. As a contemporary pianist, she has participated in several festivals, like Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas (Mexico, 2022, 2019), Fluxes (Madrid, 2022) or SIM (2022, 2019). In addition, she has also played as a classical accompanying pianist in Palacio de Festivales (Santander, 2025) or Ateneo (Santander, 2025).
Melisa Cano holds a BA in Piano Performance (Consmupa, Spain), a BA in Piano Pedagogy (Metropolia-University, Helsinki, Finland), a MA in Contemporary Music (Royal Conservatory, Madrid, Spain) and a MA in Electroacoustic Composition (Katarina Gurska Music Institute, Madrid, Spain). She works as a piano teacher and piano accompaning pianist at the Professional Conservatory of Music Jesús de Monasterio and Torrelavega (Cantabria, Spain).
Links:
Melisa Cano IG - https://www.instagram.com/melisacanosanchez?igsh=MXNhbzViYjZteGpvYQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
n0n0is IG - https://www.instagram.com/n0n0is?igsh=bGtlaGV4M25xMXpk&utm_source=qr
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