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Creative Coding Barcelona w/ Constanza Piña (Corazón de Robota)
The Generative Art Museum presented a new edition of Creative Coding Barcelona in collaboration with BAU University, featuring Corazón de Robota (Constanza Piña), who led a hybrid event combining a performance and a talk titled “The Heart is an Oscillator.”
Corazón de Robota brought a retro-technological and techno-manual perspective to the creation of low-cost sound artifacts built with low-tech materials, electronic waste, chocolate boxes, and recycled components. Her setup consisted entirely of handmade oscillators, sequencers, drum machines, filters, and distortions that intentionally incorporated electronic errors and aberrations. The sounds produced during the performance formed a chaotic organization of textures, feedback, and random patterns that evolved over time, leading the audience into a sonic trance and a journey through the rhythmic dimensions of noise.During the talk, Corazón de Robota shared insights into her sound project, presenting her DIY instruments, connections, and creative process.
Constanza Piña Pardo (Curicó, 1984) was a Chilean sound and electronic artist whose work was rooted in electronic experimentation, open-source technologies, DIY philosophy, and technofeminist social practices. She explored noise as a sonic, political, cultural, and spiritual phenomenon, situating her practice at the intersection of technology and craft. Under the pseudonym Corazón de Robota, Constanza had been active in the underground music scene since 2010, performing noise improvisations with unique sound artifacts she built herself inside chocolate boxes. Her DIY devices embodied the spirit of technofeminism and electronic anarchy. She founded the technofeminist gathering Cyborgrrrls in Mexico City and taught at her project, the Non-Binary Electronics School in Berlin.
Published: 2025-10-30
Author: Creative Coding Barcelona