Visual Phonic launched in 2016 with monthly sessions at the Barcelona headquarters of the Filmoteca de Catalunya. For more than five years, more than thirty classic silent films were sonorized live by Javier Verdes, with vinyls of electronic music from his personal collection. Since then, the project expanded to sessions in modern art museums, cultural forums, festivals or such unique and emblematic spaces as the auditorium of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao or the Museum of Modern Art in Ibiza.
Visual Phonic was launched in 2016 with a series of monthly sessions held at the Filmoteca de Catalunya. The project was conceived as a live dialogue between silent cinema and electronic music, with classic films being reinterpreted through live soundtracks performed by Javier Verdes, using vinyl records from his personal electronic music collection.
Over the course of more than five years, over thirty classic silent films were re-scored live, gradually establishing Visual Phonic as a distinctive cultural format at the intersection of cinema, music and performance. As the project gained recognition, it expanded beyond the traditional movie theater, traveling to modern art museums, cultural forums and festivals, as well as emblematic venues such as the auditorium of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Museum of Modern Art Ibiza.
The natural evolution of Visual Phonic was to move beyond the conventional cinematic format and return to the spatial logic of the stage and the installation. The objective was to break the frontal relationship of cinema and transform it into an immersive environment, where film and sound merge into a unified sensory experience.
This evolution led to the creation of Visual Phonic 360, an immersive audiovisual installation designed to fully surround the viewer. Conceived as a comprehensive experience, Visual Phonic 360 places the audience at the center of the work, dissolving the boundaries between screen, sound and space. Built around three fundamental pillars, the project reimagines how classic cinema can be experienced today—no longer as a linear projection, but as a spatial, immersive and contemporary reinterpretation.
Visual Phonic 360 stands as an exploration of how heritage, technology and performance can converge to create new forms of cultural experience, transforming the way audiences engage with the classics of cinema.
