"Raise your hand who does not have an Apple product", "Nobody wants to give up their privilege" or "It is very hypocritical to write a play against Foxcon's work conditions from a Macbook". These and other tweets are projected on a screen on the stage of the Theater of the University of Navarra Museum.

iSlave is a show multidisciplinary that sample the negative side of the use of technology and, to do so, integrates electronic devices as part of its creation. It may seem paradoxical, and its creator assumes so. The play presents our relationship of aversion and addiction to new technologies, as well as some situations of injustice and labor precariousness in this industry.

It has been created in partnership with the BBVA Foundation, the Teatros del Canal and the MUN. iSlave is a project made with the scholarship Leonardo a Investigadores y Creadores Culturales 2022 of the BBVA Foundation.

Alberto Bernal signature the musical direction and composition of this proposal, with libretto by Mar Gómez Glez, stage direction by Pablo Ramos and management and executive production by Colectivo E7.2.

The creators presented the play today at the MUN Theater: the public was able to "sneak" into their rehearsals and have a meeting with the creators, who explained the keys to proposal, which will be premiering soon at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid and can be seen at the MUN on March 7, at 7.30 pm.

In his career, Alberto Bernal assumes technology as "one more instrument" available to musicians. He considers that, as a "genuinely current" medium, it is coherent with our times to use it. At the same time, he reflects on the most negative facet: the means of production. iSlave looks at those who, far from enjoying its use, manufacture it under harsh conditions at work.

For her part, playwright Mar Gómez Glez adds the idea that a hundred years from now society will look with perplexity at the relationship we have today with our mobile, just as we are amazed by customs that a century ago seemed normal. Pablo Ramos, director scenic, completes the reflection on "the duality of the individual", inviting us to ask ourselves "who is more of a slave": if the one who suffers endless shifts of work to make it or the one who depends entirely on his smartphone.

Two performers of Led Silhouette materialize this contradiction. Martxel Rodríguez, who co-directs this company with Jon López, speaks of "embodying duality" and of "dancing from play and privilege to be able to show what one does not want to see".

In addition to dance, iSlave uses audiovisuals and music (percussion and oboe) to contrast the two facets of the same world. On one side, one of the dancers and two percussionists are placed. The repetitive rhythm of the percussion represents the industrial and frenetic world associated with the manufacture of the devices. On the other half of the stage are the second dancer and two oboists: the melodic oboe represents the entertainment side and the everyday use of these devices.

iSlave is part of the Cartographies of Music series. Teresa Lasheras, Director of Performing Arts and Music at MUN, highlights "the format multidisciplinary of the production, the approach it proposes to our dependence on technology and Bernal's outstanding compositional trajectory in the field of contemporary music today". And it highlights the participation of Navarre in the production, embodied in the instrumentalists, the stage direction and the performers.

Alberto Bernal is a composer and sound artist of classical origin and varied influences, with works framed near the turning point between concert situations and other disciplines such as installation, performance or video art. His work is a search and deconstruction of the limit between the aesthetic and the socio-political, as well as between the different traditional perceptual fields (sound, image, word, everyday perception).

His work has been presented in various places in Europe, America and Asia, and has been recognized with awards and grants: Darmstadt International Festival, Humboldt Foundation, DAAD/Fundación La Caixa, Ministry of Culture, Goethe Institute, Comunidad de Madrid, SWR Stuttgart, European Academy, residency program Casa Velázquez, Matadero de Madrid or BBVA Foundation.

Bernal has curated several artistic initiatives, including the VANG series, and is Full Professor at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid.