Radio 3 inaugurates its new studio, 'Time line', created by the artist SUSO33

The performances of Amaral, Izal, Kiko Veneno, Ángel Stanich, Rulo and Marlango have put the music on the first broadcast from the new studio.

Radio 3, RNE's musical and cultural station, inaugurated this Wednesday a new studio for its broadcasts: Time line, an exceptional work and creation environment designed by the urban artist SUSO33. The painter, who has been dedicated to urban art for more than three decades, has developed a large-format work conceptualizing the universe of sounds and music. Virginia Díaz and Ángel Carmona presented the inauguration of the new studio live with a special program featuring emblematic artists of the network such as Amaral, Izal, Kiko Veneno, Ángel Stanich, Rulo and Marlango, which could be seen in video streaming on Radio 3 Extra.

“I'm excited,” said the director of Radio 3, Tomás Fernando Flores, during the broadcast of the special program. Both for the call for the event and, above all, for the fact that SUSO33 has been a participant in this project: "We wanted to create a stimulating work environment and having the complicity and talent of SUSO33 is a delight. We wanted a studio where creativity would be enhanced and we have managed to make this spectacular work", explained the legendary announcer of the RNE music channel.

A station that combines “rigor, passion and technological innovation”, in the words of its director, and that has the best audience: “We have the best listeners in the world, with criteria, who are as passionate about culture and music as we are,” Tomás Fernando Flores highlighted.

SUSO33 did not want to miss this inauguration in which his work is the main protagonist: "This work is specific for Radio 3 and it is what happens to me when I listen to the radio, a synesthetic effect. We have created a sound space to have an experience when you listen to the radio," said the artist, a faithful follower of the station. “For me it is a pleasure and a pride to be part of this project because I have trained and grown with Radio 3 and music has a lot of presence in my project,” stated SUSO33.

Radio 3, a unique station

SUSO33, who has held exhibitions in cities in Europe, America and Asia and whose work has been exhibited in prestigious museums such as the Reina Sofía Art Center, Caixaforum and the Thyssen Bornemisza, is the author of the main work of the new Radio 3 studio, in which lines and buildings intersect as a metaphor with the image of the lights of the VU meters of the sound mixing consoles and the staves.

Radio 3 is the only one dedicated entirely to quality music and culture. A station created every day by the best music specialists and critics based on a criterion of diversity and creativity. Radio 3 is the only station with programs specialized in alternative pop, electronic music, flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... and also cinema, video games, ecology, social action, literature, comics...

In recent times, in addition, Radio 3 has made a commitment to new formats with the Radio3 Extra project, with audiovisual and multimedia content for the web with a strong viral character. Likewise, Radio 3 has created new means of distribution of its content such as the exclusive application only for Radio3, with unique and innovative functions; has created a channel to launch its programs in High Quality through DTT, Radio 3 HQ; and is immersed in new challenges that address the dizzying changes that are taking place in the world of communication, thus enhancing the strong personality of its brand as a vehicle for creativity and pop music.

Time line, SUSO33's work for Radio 3

Time line It is a multimedia installation made up of six canvases of variable arrangement, a soundscape, and a video.

The work arises as a result of Radio 3's commission to insert a pictorial installation in the new sound studio. The sensory particularities of this environment with delicate conditions such as the reaction of sound in the painting are decided to be incorporated into the spirit of the piece.

Time line talks about the synesthetic effects that the radio generates in our minds through music and words. The listener ends up perceiving images, colors, shapes and textures. The tradition of correspondences between painting and music that had its peak in the avant-garde is also honored. Colors are translated into musical notations, sound frequencies into chromatic rhythms, and both generate physical effects in our body. Painting and sound.

In the pictorial installation, some motifs used, such as the city skyline or presences (human traces), belong to the classic imaginary of SUSO33, which here mutate into other elements depending on the point of view and distance adopted by the viewer. The timeline becomes an urban skyline or sound VU meter frequency. And the human figure, the presences, are arranged on the staff of timelines as humanized eighth and sixteenth notes.

Time line, sound frequency, sound graph, pentagram skyline, frequency band, spatial score, color spots, coexist in the mind of the perceiver. Thus, the sound frequencies and the VU meter city that we glimpsed from afar, in the middle distance are blocks of buildings, and from closer up, spots and abstract textures that the light moves and expands with a kaleidoscopic effect. The chosen chromatic range is basic colors that react with light and form other tones in the superposition of translucent layers.

Added to this sensory game of visual changes is the mobility allowed by the panels (the diptych and the quadriple) which, freely exchanged, generate other installation possibilities. In the case of the diptych, an open fugue or a closed fugue, concentration or deconcentration, as decided.