Miguel La Corte
B. Caracas, Venezuela. 1999.
Music designer and programmer focused in researching and developing new instruments and experiences that address our modern digital condition.
His work has been presented within CTM Festival 2023 in Berlin, Goethe Institute Venezuela and within HKW Berlin, Centre Pompidou in Paris and CCCB in Barcelona through the Cultures d’avenir program.
About
Welcome to my online portfolio. This website showcases a timeline and trajectory of the projects that have shaped my current practice:
Research and Practice
Through a background in 💿 music production, 🔊 sound engineering, ✍️ graphic design, 💻 creative coding and 🎹 piano restoration, my practice is currently set on creating instruments and experiences which allows us to address and reflect on the potential and responsibility of our modern cybernated condition
In this regard, my recent research is focused on Open Media Ecologies (OMEs); Within a cultural landscape dominated by closed-control media distribution platforms, I propose an alternative model of culture distribution that is free from the platform-native systems of commodified attention.
In 2022 I founded the Participative Audio Lab, a collective focused on creating open-source tools for the distribution of interactive musical experiences.
In 2016, I founded Myriorama, an instrument development company focused on piano restoration/redesign.
Vision statement
I believe in the potential that exists between technology, design and music to unwind contemporary social issues.
In a cultural landscape dominated by closed-control media distribution platforms, I believe in the importance of instrumenting new experiences that enable us to reflect on the potential and responsibility of our modern cybernated condition.
From our living rooms to modern culture distribution platforms; how can our mediums of connection offer by design new ways of interaction, new ways of creative-control distribution and henceforth new forms of attention towards our environments and the entities that conform it?
Read more here.
Contact
Twitter, Email, Insta, Github, C.V.
Mountaineering life
Pico Humboldt , 2015. 4900m.
Pico El Toro, 2018. 4755m.
Pico El Águila, 2018, 4118m.
Picture facing west.
No te Apures
Frailejón (Espeletia schultzii) plant, native to the Páramo ecosystem.
Descent from Pico El Toro, 2018.
Near “Los Nevados” in Mérida, Venezuela.
Rainbow over El Ávila
Ascend towards Humboldt cableway in el Ávila, Caracas.
Pico El Toro, 2017.
Pico Bolivar in the back.
Pico Bolívar
In 2017, I set off with my high school mountaineering group to climb Venezuela’s tallest mountain, Pico Bolivar (4,978 m).
After several days of hiking, we set off our camping spot at the base camp of the mountain.
Unfortunately the next early morning the whole camping crew woke up shocked since a team member who had suffered from altitude sickness all along almost died since his lungs where getting water inside. Thankfully, he was a doctor, and so he managed to identify the issue quickly and within record time, he was already lowered to city altitude and thus taken away from any pain or danger.
In 2017, I set off with my high school mountaineering group to climb Venezuela’s tallest mountain, Pico Bolivar (4,978 m).
After several days of hiking, we set off our camping spot at the base camp of the mountain.
Unfortunately the next early morning the whole camping crew woke up shocked since a team member who had suffered from altitude sickness all along almost died since his lungs where getting water inside. Thankfully, he was a doctor, and so he managed to identify the issue quickly and within record time, he was already lowered to city altitude and thus taken away from any pain or danger.
El Águila peak.
Pico El Águila.