Julio César Palacio is a multimedia artist, experimental musician and architect, who works with sound, video and mixed medias, often with site and sound-specific projects, aiming to nurture a deeper and more embodied connection to the soundscapes that surround us.

Born in Venezuela but settled in Barcelona, this sonic explorer uses a mixture of analog sound, field recordings and digital processing to compose abstract, arrhythmic micro-tonal music. His research focuses on the studies of acoustic phenomena, the expansion of the human auditory range of perception, sound spatialization, soundwalking, infrasound, electromagnetic, deep listening, soundscape analysis, bioacoustics, and sonic data collection related to environmental conservation.

“JCP is a sonic explorer, an artist fascinated with the studies of acoustic phenomenons like echo, reverberation, dynamics, timbre in relationship with the space and the listener/audience perception, giving a primal importance to the movement of sound in his music compositions. The artist have a very strong conceptual approach in his work and research, we can see and hear all these explorations on his installations, sound pieces, recordings and Live performances”.

With his music project SUN COLOR, he has participated in Festivals of international renown like Mutek and performed extensive tours in Europe, USA and Asia, it has been commissioned with sound installations and has exhibited his works and sound pieces in Galleries and Museums. Apart from his live shows and sound installations he composes music for films, theater and contemporary dance.

Julio César Palacio has been granted with Artist Residencies as a Guest Composer in the prestigious EMS Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm, Sweden 2015 — The Indigo Foundation in Palermo, Italy 2017 — Islington Mill in Manchester, UK 2018 — Nave Agóra in Buenos Aires, Argentina 2019 — Tsonami Arte Sonoro in Valparaiso, Chile 2020 — L’Estruch Fábrica de Creaciò, Sabadell 2020 — Wirthaus Secrets in Linz, Austria 2022 — HoME Residency with Mixtur Festival in Budapest/ Vienna / Novi Sad / Barcelona from 2021 to 2023 — Fabra i Coats, Barcelona 2023-2024.

JCP teach and gives Lectures and workshops on Sound Art, Field Recordings, Soundwalking and Environmental Listening, Eurorack Modular Synthesizers and Sound Composition (Primavera Sound Pro, Museu de la Música, Ableton Live Users, Universitat de Barcelona…).

Bio DATA-X

This project stems from the artist's need for recycling and cutting back on the number of technological devices used in musical composition as a response to the growing technopathy and hyperdependence on "gadgets" in the production of sound content.

The artist's musical/sound practice prior to this project was characterized by the use of modular synthesizers - an instrument that requires a lot of time spent in the studio moving knobs and laying cables, and perhaps a very isolated and self-absorbed form of creation. This model of creation began to lose the interest of the artist and to be replaced by searches more related to listening, with the idea of relating to the sound landscape that surrounds us, and creating from these sounds.

Bio DATA -X, is a new music project by sound artist and composer Julio César Palacio.

BANDCAMP

This interest was linked to the practice of field recording, which the artist has carried out for the last 10 years, and for which, during this time, he has stored a large library of recordings both in nature and the animal world, as well as in cities and people.

Each Live presentation of Bio DATA-X is called "Wheater Report", and consists of abstract pieces composed entirely with geophonies (recorded by the artist) transformed electronically into an multichannel diffusion performance concerned with bioacoustics, environmental research, nature’s hidden sounds and soundscapes, exploring the relationship between these and their live physical source in composition.

The live visuals of the Bio Data-X "Meteorological Reports" show fragments of the places where the sounds that make up the sound-composition piece have been recorded. In these visuals that accompany the sound (in a de-synchronized way) you can see: walks through the forest, insects, underwater and wave recordings, the earth and its movements with the wind, rain and storms, plants and flowers. .. etc.