Lolo y Sosaku: Chaos, Machines, and Mystical Performances

Lolo y Sosaku, a Barcelona-based duo, create performances blending industrial sound, installation, machinery, and kinetic art. Their work explores materiality, mysticism, technology, and biology, often featuring mechanical dogs, sparks, fog, and chaotic energy. In an interview, Lolo discusses their studio's strangest object—a neighbor named Cisco—and their deep, complex relationship with Sosaku, whom he believes was a pirate in a past life. They view their machines as children, constantly transforming and embracing imperfection. Chaos is their master; they welcome errors and unpredictable events. Lolo describes Sosaku's sound as a mosquito's buzz before an electrical burn, and his own as F1 motor sounds. Their collective sound is the explosion from the anime 'Evangelion.' They recently performed in Australia to sold-out crowds. Lolo trusts machines over humans, citing a preference for machine-caused injuries. He believes humanity is lost and not controlling technology. Asked about sound in 400 years, he envisions an echo of silence growing into loud machinery and animals, then fading again.