Modern Obscure Music is excited to announce Gadea’s original soundtrack to ‘In The Beginning’, the new animated short film by director Ala Nunu. This is Gadea’s first score for animation — out 26.06.26, presale starts now on @bandcamp !
Featuring vocals by Marina Herlop, the record moves between field-recording minimalism, chamber electroacoustics, and the more fragile end of speculative composition.
Film produced by COLA Animation @cola_anima
And co-produced by Studio Kimchi @studio_kimchi and Yellow Tapir films @yellowtapirfilms
Film Distributed by @miyudistribution
Vinyl Distributed by @waswordandsound
My favourite Toonami Ident I got to create is out!!! :)))
I ate enough and now I can post and THANK SO MUCH @kingboss.tv and @toonamiswim@toonamidaily and @adultswim for the trust again <3 This was also a great opportunity to collaborate again with @gadea_____ who brought the soundscape of this little piece to life 🎉
made in @tvpaintanim 🔥
Btw I would love to create small stories for your characters and bring them to life :')
Escala I, 2026
Media: stepped structure; wood; headphones; audio (11 min)
Dimensions: 150 × 120 × 57 cm
Duration: 11 min (audio)
Edition of 3
Design: Alban le Henry
Sound Composition: Carlota Gadea Marqués
A stepped listening-and-video station referencing the interior stairs of the safareig.
The structure frames the encounter as a descent—into reservoir, echo, trace—holding an eleven-minute readaptation of the El Uc score alongside a video loop filmed on the day of the performance. The moving image returns as a brief apparition: choreography held as residue rather than document.
Until march 28 @galeriatambien@safa.reig@gadea_____
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Poal (2025), an acoustic sculpture that places Ibiza’s parched landscape in direct correspondence with Greenland’s vanishing ice, as water is displaced and reconfigured under warming conditions.
Sound: recordings made in 2024 at the retreating Apusiaajik Glacier near Kulusuk (East Greenland).
@gadea_____@albanlehenry@laura_huguet_nono@galeriatambien@safa.reig
Carlota Gadea Marqués is a composer and musician working at the intersection of electronic composition and expanded sound practice. Rooted in sound as a primary medium—built through analog synthesis, field recordings, alternative tunings, and intensive processing—her work investigates transmission and material transformation. Alongside releases and live performance, she develops installation and performance works that extend sound through objects, spatial staging, and moving image, in collaboration with designers and makers.
Photo: Gadea field recording in 2024 at the retreating Apusiaajik Glacier near Kulusuk, East Greenland
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Rastres d’un Crit
Opening Friday 13th March
at Galeria Tambien
A ceramic bucket becomes a resonant chamber: dripping, cracking, dissolving—elemental sounds of ice in collapse amplified through the vessel, transforming a utilitarian form into a fragile monument and instrument. Beneath the rim, a mirror conceals the speaker and returns the viewer’s reflection from within the empty volume, turning listening into an act of seeing.
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Poal (2025), an acoustic sculpture created by Gadea and designer Alban le Henry is at the center of ‘Rastres d’un Crit’.
Opening Friday 13th March 2026 at Galeria Tambien.
@galeriatambien@safa.reig@gadea_____@albanlehenry@laura_huguet_nono
GALERIA TAMBIEN & SAFA
‘RASTRES D’UN CRIT’
Carlota Gadea Marqués
▫️ Opening: Friday 13th March 17-20H
▪️ Exhibition: 13-28th March
at Galeria Tambien, Santa Gertrudis, Eivissa
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“Earth records its history in water: contained, suspended, frozen—and in the end, salt.” In Rastres d’un Crit, Carlota Gadea Marqués brings together acoustic sculpture—with designer Alban le Henry—image, reflection, and process-led drawing to treat absence as material and water’s transformation as trace. Starting from a drained safareig in Ibiza and field recordings of a retreating glacier in East Greenland, the exhibition unfolds as a field of traces where sound, language, and surface act as record—holding to a single premise: what disappears leaves a mark.
@galeriatambien@safa.reig@gadea_____@albanlehenry@laura_huguet_nono
Poster design: @cielofuturo
I was lucky to see “El Uc last night, a music and performance piece created by Carlota @gadea_____ with the Russian butoh dancer Sofya Shaikut @sofya_shaikut . The piece was truly extraordinary. I love butoh, but it was the first time I witnessed a contemporary version carried by such a brutally exquisite musical composition. The title “El Uu” refers to an ancestral cry of the farmers of Ibiza, used to call to one another across the valleys—signaling for help, announcing an arrival, or invoking the rain. Structured in four chapters, with Gadea’s original composition unfolding through analog synthesis and traditional Ibicenco instruments, Sofya’s performance was a visceral, poignant and full of humour invocation of the natural forces around us and a call to ecological urgency. Staged in the North of the island, far from the touristic disaster, it took place at SAFA @safa.reig , an art program in the forest, repurpusing an abandoned water reservoir (safareig)—a setting that resembled a Roman theater, symbolically evocative of the cultural ruins left by our collapsing world. OZ
By the way : sexy speakers designed by @albanlehenry and his design studio in Ibiza
Sofya Shaikut x Gadea ‘El Uc’
Live Performance 41min
Saturday 20th September 2025
◽️Doors 18:30
◼️Performance 19:30
SAFA, Santa Agnès de Corona, Eivissa
‘El Uc’ is a live choreographic and sonic work constructed as a four-act score for one performer.
It unfolds through eight scenes, each anchored in a precise compositional logic: temperature, collapse, invocation, return. Developed as a durational encounter, the work situates the body under environmental and acoustic pressure.
Performed by Sofya Shaikut, with composition by Gadea and speaker design by Alban le Henry, the piece unfolds as a meditation on ecological memory and renewal.
@sofya_shaikut@gymnasticsofthevoice@albanlehenry@safa.reig@jaja.service
Poster Design: @cielofuturo
Contributed the soundtrack of “Hotel Miks”, thank you @pinar_ogrenci 💝
Hotel Miks, Three Channel Video, 4K, sound, color, 12’08’’
The three-channel film installation Hotel Miks (2023) observes men playing chess in their daily café in the same town. Lightly inspired by the Stefan Zweig’s final novella The Royal Game (Schachnovelle, 1941)—in which main protagonist prisoned in a hotel room by Nazi’s and chess becomes a survival mechanism in the face of fascism; a hotel also is a compelling metaphor for authoritarian states like Turkey; although featuring some alluring amenities, it is never intended to become a home for opponents, non Muslim and non Turkish communities.
Currently at:
@galerienord // Three Channel Video
@exilegram // One Channel Video
VIRTUAL TOUR || CURRENT EXHIBITION || LES TAMBOURS DE LA MER ~ EL HADJI SY || GADEA
Selebe Yoon is pleased to virtually guide you through the exhibition « Les Tambours de la Mer » (The Drums of the Sea) , a sculptural exhibition of recent works by El Hadji Sy (b. 1954) as an ode to Doudou N’diaye Rose - an internationally renowned Senegalese percussionist. In the exhibition, dozens of vertical sculptures composed of elements of the marine realm are placed in the exhibition space like a silent orchestra. The Drums of the Sea takes you into a 40 minutes immersive soundscape composed by sound artiste Gadea @gymnasticsofthevoice (b.1993, Spain also known as Carlota Marques) and commissioned specifically for this exhibition.
Full video available on Youtube.
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Visite virtuelle de l’exposition « Les Tambours de la Mer » de l’artiste El Hadji Sy (né en 1954) en hommage à Doudou N’diaye Rose, percussionniste sénégalais de renommée internationale. Cette exposition présente des dizaines de sculptures verticales composées d’éléments du monde marin sont placées dans l’espace d’exposition comme un orchestre silencieux. Les Tambours de la Mer vous entraîne dans un paysage sonore immersif composé par l’artiste sonore Gadea (née en 1993 en Espagne), commissionné pour cette exposition.
La vidéo intégrale est disponible sur Youtube
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Les Tambours de la Mer
El Hadji Sy
May 11 - July 29, 2023
Sound: Gadea
#selebeyoon #selebeyoonsn #elhadjisy #lestamboursdelamer #virtualtours360
