Fourteenth Edition of the Márgenes Festival
Presentation of the Festival and Noémi Büchi's Audiovisual Show Does It Still Matter
Free, until full capacity is reached. Tickets may be collected at the Museo’s Ticket Offices or on the Museo Reina Sofía website from 10am on 20 November (a maximum of 2 per person). 20% of the visitor-capacity will be reserved for attendance without ticket collection on the day of the activity. Doors open 30 minutes before the activity
The Museo Reina Sofía and Márgenes. Madrid International Film Festival, which explores new audiovisual idioms, begin a new collaboration. This joint project comprises the organisation of an annual series — this year devoted to artist and theorist Hito Steyerl (Munich, 1966) — the presentation of the festival inside the Museo and the performance of a live audiovisual piece. For the fourteenth edition of Márgenes, held from 22 to 30 November 2024, the work Does It Still Matter (2024), by composer and artist Noémi Büchi (Zürich, 1991), is due to be performed.
Does It Still Matter is a multimedia piece that explores the crossroads between sound, the visual and human emotions in a technology- and virtuality-dominated world. Büchi’s sound structures and aesthetic choices in the work question the state of materiality in a fluid and intangible world, putting forward an attitude which, as the artist describes it, “involves leaving behind the rigidity of genre and abolishing and rebuilding the musical past”. Situating the physicality of music as the central focus, Büchi unfurls a world of liquid bodies and transcendent intonations which powerfully resonate in the listener.
Noémi Büchi is a Swiss/French composer and sound artist. She holds a degree in Musicology and German Literature and Linguistics from the University of Zürich and an MA in Electroacoustic Composition from ZHdK (Zürich). Büchi’s work operates in the areas of electroacoustic composition, live audiovisual pieces and music for film, contemporary dance, installation, theatre and orchestral works, her music defined by a mix of electronic-orchestral condensations and textural rhythms, combining harmonic and discordant sounds with a strong contemplative energy. She has participated in distinguished national and international festivals, for instance Ars Electronica (Austria), the Mutek Festival (Spain), the L.E.V. Festival (Spain), the Variations Festival (France), and the Linecheck Festival (Italy).