20200225_MUN_PresentationMusicCartographies

A new and surprising experience that unites music with words, technology and reflection on music itself. This is the proposal with which starts the sixth edition of the cycle Cartographies of Music of the University Museum of Navarra, which will be held from Friday until April 24 and this year focuses on composers born in the 80s.

It will be inaugurated by Ciklus Ensemble & Yelmo del Mambrino Teatro with the radio drama Heart of Darkness (February 28), quotation to be followed by the concerts Coversby Nou Ensemble (March 6th), and Fulgorby Vertixe Sonora (March 12). The three dates will take place at 7:30 pm at the Theater and tickets cost 16 and 14 euros.

This Tuesday these first three concerts have been presented, a meeting in which have participated José Pablo Polo, coordinator of this first part of the cycle and member of Nou Ensemble; Asier Puga, director musical Ciklus Ensemble; and Teresa Lasheras, assistant to the the direction of Performing Arts and Music Museum.

In Polo's words, attend to these concerts is like "going to an amusement park for the first time. You don't quite know what's going to happen, but it's going to be amazing and surprising. The new music invites you to finding and it has to be exciting". Thus, the three appointments draw "a sound map of the current creation, in which we place first a temporal map, based on composers and composers born from 1975, people who have developed their artistic careers practically in the 21st century".

From this idea, we have developed three different creative lines: a dialogue between music and words (Ciklus Ensemble), between music and music itself (Nou Ensemble) and between music and technology (Vertixe Sonora).

SOUND RADIO DRAMA

The first proposal, Heart of Darknessbegan to take shape when the composer Iñaki Estrada was struck by the impact of reading The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. "Since then he had the idea of developing a kind of opera or theatrical piece with this work," explains Puga. Four years ago, when the two began working together, they discovered that they had "common concerns about how the word can be used differently to try to find inflections and the purely sonorous beauty it has".

Thus, with dramaturgy by Jesús Eguía, this scenic radio drama was born, made up of "many layers, starting with the ensemble, which will be performing live, the electronics, recorded and live, the seven actors involved in the dramaturgy and the sound effects of gunshots, the boat, the jungle...".

NIRVANA AND DEEP PURPLE TODAY

For its part, Nou Ensemble proposes in Covers to revisit and reinterpret mythical songs from the history of music from the point of view of six current composers. There is no nostalgia, but a new proposal in which you can hear works by Alberto Bernal on Billie Holiday; Carolyn Cheng on Anton Bruckner; Jessie Marino on Boyz II Men; Germán Alonso on Nirvana; Román González, who premieres a piece on Deep Purple; and Raquel García Tomás on the music of the aborigines of Oceania. "The idea of cover is very current and these composers have revisited themes from which we build a totally current world, of avant-garde music, from these preconceived works," explains Polo, electric guitarist of group.

Finally, Vertixe Sonora's Fulgor invites the public to enter "a great laboratory" in which, through four works, "four dialogues are established with different ways of listening to the technological reality that surrounds us. They propose sounds that maybe it is the first time you have heard them". The pieces, composed by Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, Heather B. Frasch, Mauricio Pauly and Ramón Otero, reflect on urban noise, the relationship we establish with technological objects, sound as a mirror of itself and the border between sound and silence.

Three different proposals, united by a reflection on the music itself and its connections, as well as by the commitment to the new bands, as Polo emphasizes: "In the past, the performer of contemporary music was a mere executor of ideas at the service of the composer. Now there has been a paradigm shift in which the bands have become a fundamental part of the creative process".

The cycle also includes the following proposals Contemporary Harp. A performative meetingwith Alicia Griffiths, y Experientia. Spaces to be soundedof Zorongoboth in exhibition halls; The American 20th centuryconcert to be offered by the University of Navarra Symphony Orchestradirected by Borja Quintastogether with the pianist Rosa Torres-Pardoand the recital in tribute to Luis de Pabloat position from Sax Ensemble.