In Kooperation Kooperation mit dem gleichnamigen Kulturzentrum in Buenos Aires
Program
Santiago Díez Fischer SENSITIVE SWITCH ( 2015, world premiere, 7’ca.)
for trombón (with basoon reeds and mutes) and violoncello
Santiago Villalba INSTANT FACTORY (2015, world premiere, 14’)
for flute, clarinet, trombone, piano and violoncello
Abel Paul EL LUGAR CALLADO (2012, 13’)
for flutist, percussionist and video
Luciano Azzigotti FLOEMA (2015, world premiere, 13’) for sextet
Lucas Luján AMPLIACIÓN DE LO DISPONIBLE (2015, world premiere, 13’)
program notes
Abel Paul EL LUGAR CALLADO
Describe how it is that no object has its limitation in the mirror but in the eye which looks at it in the mirror. For if you look at your face in the mirror, the part resembles the whole as the part is everywhere in the mirror, and the whole is in every part of the same mirror, and the same is true for the whole image of any object placed opposite to this mirror. (Notebooks of Leonardo, 2nd book)
Luciano Azzigotti FLOEMA
The metaphor of floema (phloem) works like a living tissue that is organises a system of exchange. Living things are not composed, but they react and exchange energy with the environment. This mechanism is reflected in this work through it’s non-additive logic, where the properties of the materials vary continuously and delicately. In a tree there’s no difference between the root, the stem, the branches and the flowers. The entire tree is the fruit.
Lucas Luján AMPLIACIÓN DE LO DISPONIBLE
While working with highly fragmented materials, I began to explore how to maintain them over time. Even though one of the main characteristics of these materials is their state of fragility -i.e. their weakness and inability to be maintained over time-, I found that fragility itself is what allows me to build a sort of musical stream in which each molecule is unique, but at the same time are constitutive of the flow of the whole piece. In this work I explore precisely that: the becoming of the same, or better put, a segment of this becoming.
about conDiT.container
In Argentina there is a tradition related to classical concert music, in which the programmers and regisseurs of argentine concert halls receive (with the support of embassies) top level foreign artists who spread the music of their countries in Argentina.
This project has the clear objective to generate a mutual opportunity, so argentine composers and musicians can spread their work abroad within an integrated broadcasting, recording, and international artists’ exchange program; framed by the principle of equal opportunities. The purpose is: update the old “center-periphery” relationship, energizing and encouraging the symmetry of cultural exchange between Argentina and the world.
The first chapter of Container is possible thanks to the collaboration between the Embassy of Argentina and conDiT.cheLA , whose team will be in charge of the organization, choice of repertoire and residents , commission works, and the activities advertising.
This project will be carried out by groups and halls in Vienna, Genève and Berlin, associated with conDiT, and will be the second step after the partnerships we have begun in 2014 with the reception of Austrian artists in our platform.
During 2015 conDiT will form an ensemble in Vienna with young professional musicians. The ensemble will premiere works by argentine young composers, programmed for the second Container concert (the first antecedent is Transatlantic Interscores, July 2014) on december 10th.