Fri, Sep 10, 2021
Our interest lies more in knowing how flamenco works than in trying to undertake the utopian task of knowing what it is. The dividing lines between being and not being are blurred by the heterodox practices of its agents. An endless number of irregular, unconnected and incoherent aesthetic and political ways of doing things that turn this paradoxical discipline into an art that enables us to free ourselves from imposed canons and dogmas. As a sample of all this, we go through some recordings starring Manuel Cagancho, Val del Omar, Ramón Montoya, Enrique and Estrella Morente, Raúl Cantizano, Rosalía, Inés Bacán, Tomás de Perrate, Pedro G. Romero, Rocío Márquez or Refree.
Fri, Sep 17, 2021
Cántico Cósmico is the masterpiece of the Nicaraguan writer Ernesto Cardenal which contains all the ancestral wisdom along with a great knowledge of quantum physics and liberation theology. All this guided and strung together by hundreds of sounds, songs and dances that make it a book that sounds unorthodox not only because of its aesthetic and thematic eclecticism but also because of its political and social message, since Ernesto Cardenal was a retaining wall before the clerical dogmas coming from the Vatican, especially in the time of John Paul II. The idea of this series of programs that we will relate to this book is to somehow extract the sound that Ernesto Cardenal invokes us with his words from him. It is a book that invites us to go through the entire history of the cosmos from its creation to the present day. In the episodes that we will carry out based on Ernesto Cardenal's Cántico Cósmico (Cosmic Canticle), we will find all the possible variety and diversity of how good and how bad the world sounds.
Fri, Sep 24, 2021
The scream is often understood as the lack of, be it melody, tuning, breathing, singing skills or the lack of language, but in the following program we delve into the conception of the scream as the possibility of listening to another, another, what cannot be said, what does not work at an analytical level with the codes of language and music. We will find references and actions shouting or shouting such as the performances of Marina Abramovic and Ulay, the improvisations between the animal and the human by Beñat Achiary, the representation of the diabolical in the voices of Diamanda Galás, Patty Waters or Phil Minton or the various sound forms that the singer Mike Patton poses from music and the different aesthetic tendencies. From this unstable listening, given the material from which we started, only questions will arise that will rather make us think again of the scream as one more form of liberation of the being.
Fri, Oct 1, 2021
Silence as a mental state, as a phenomenon of radical listening to what surrounds us but also as that space that helps us to know and recognize ourselves through calm or contemplation. A silence in music and not so much a musical silence. Music made from these ways of being in the world and its speed. Silence and its time as an experience that moves us to positions before transgressive life and death. There is always a silence no matter how noisy your perception is. There is always one. You hear it?
Fri, Oct 8, 2021
Community feelings. Ways of living, asking ourselves how we live and with whom we share life and space. Singing, dancing or some rites that help music emerge as a source of communion, ideal spaces for brotherhood and friendship. Music and sounds that are sustained thanks to different social structures. A journey through the need of the human being to congregate around beats, tambourines, religious images, silent architecture, sounds of day-to-day work. From there we will know how necessary music and its social formalization are for the future of societies throughout their existence. Use this small program as a vindictive example.
Fri, Oct 15, 2021
A dialogue or having a deep conversation is a critical procedure where previous positions are displaced at the end of the process. From there we have approached these clear examples of artistic projects that have meant a halo of illusion when it comes to believing in the diversification of the different artistic disciplines or aesthetics. A path between different very fruitful meetings where some have turned out to be the essential basis for the development of other current projects. A walk around in company, a hard slap at nihilism.
Fri, Oct 22, 2021
Starting from the conference given by the poet Federico García Lorca at the Residencia de Estudiantes in December 1928 in Madrid, we went through different ways of approaching the theme and aesthetics of lullabies or lullabies. A journey that will lead us to talk about sleep, the pleasure of sleeping but also about family conflicts, food shortages, hard work or the different values in society.
Fri, Oct 29, 2021
We never think of nature as the enemy to beat. Neither does the factory. Nor is the factory our enemy. Nor what pollutes. What pollutes is ours, as much as the trees. If we continue to think otherwise, we will not make any decision. There are always interests. The factory, the one that pollutes, that factory is ours. Our house, our country. If we think of it as foreign, it is useless. It is not strange in nature. The factory is the forest. Equal. Pollution is the fear of the forest, the one that raised the mist every morning. We burned the forest to make the houses and the road. Fear was removed. No, we should not fight pollution but rather exterminate it at the root. Rip it off. One day we will go and burn down the factory. For our sake, that day will come and it will sound like this show.
Fri, Nov 5, 2021
Frank Maubert, upon witnessing the figure of the walking man by the sculptor Giacometti, wrote that man alone does not exist and cannot exist. An idea that helps us string together the idea of the solo in music. A solitude always accompanied, an impossibility of artistic nihilism. Knowing that you are accompanied at all times will tell us about the consolation in music, about listening to everything that surrounds us and, of course, will immerse us in an exciting interior sound reality that will make a great architecture full of common and popular bonds and empathy.
Fri, Nov 12, 2021
The term noise has been used disparagingly as a designation of the non-musical. Leftover sounds, ruins that do not belong to the glory of ordered sounds, what we understand as a formal composition. Resonances that, given the impossibility of being cataloged within the melodic or harmonic, have been condemned to the container of the unclassifiable. The scream, the dissonance, the grotesque understood in its etymological sense as a cave or even as a crypt. The underground or the unknown, an art of the rare as well as the excluded, all this belongs to understanding ourselves as inevitably noisy beings constantly roaring before the politically correct convention before the utopian idea of the good sounding.
Fri, Nov 26, 2021
Given the death of the philosopher and writer Antonio Escohotado, we continue to think about his legacy in relation to drugs. A program that, based on texts, reflections and some audios of public interventions by the writer, we will draw a map of music that has been able to represent, in a certain way, his claims during his intense work of dissemination and knowledge of substances known as drugs. From there, the memory and recognition of one of the beings who has most opened the minds of future youth and who has done the most to uphold the need for individual freedom. Go in honor of his legacy and his tireless work.
Fri, Dec 3, 2021
Talking about death is talking about life. Some leave although many seem to never make their way back. And there is the other and the other, memories, echoes, vibrations, constant farewells, always speaking with the lack, you never speak alone if there is a dead person in your life. Funeral rites, music of passage, transit not only for those who are leaving. Requiems, Stabat Mater, seguiriyas. Tributes or tributes are also farewell pieces. A see you later always. And we are left with music as a resonance of the past to give it a new reality, a new life.