Child from Elche x 10. Sounds that fit in a cube Next adventure It will be implemented this Friday Madrid Encendida House Artist from Elche, sort of “Picassian” chorus with ten voices to close the program with the public around the exhibition. Picasso: Untitledestablished in this contemporary cultural center until the next period. January 7.
The exhibition, in which 50 artists were invited to interpret as many works from Picasso’s late period, and the man from Elche also participated, encourages “re-titled, re-watched or re-listened to Picasso’s late works.” I didn’t want to play a regular concert nor the repertoire because, from my point of view, the exhibition did not want that and I suggested getting different voices or a multitude of sounds and relate it to those proposed in the exhibition,” says background musician and singer Niño de Elche Francisco Contreras.
They opened a call for this. forty people and he chose front, He has started a workshop with himself for next Friday’s performance and has already warned that it will not happen. Christ But from Handel “Something more performative than a concert.”
“This is a leap into the void because until yesterday [por el martes] I didn’t know the members of this choir or group, but we’re going to create a piece. a performance of approximately 40 minutes and we’ll make two transitions,” says the musician looking for a common identity-focused sound diverse, crossover and intergenerational.
«I like to understand sounds as something larger As a professional, he understands this. Some people have the idea of singing and I always say the same thing: we all know how to sing and we sing wellBut it depends on the context and who’s listening, but there’s no room for error in the way I see the song. Since screams, whispers, screams…there are many vocal recordings that interest me and the aim is this: get this width “listening to the sounds and forming a choir that produces something from the exhibition,” explains the musician, who finds these “very satisfying”. experiments because “people come eagerly and are very generous.”
The selected ones belong to different people generations, genders, races, morphologies and charactersWho will play with the texts in the example? «We will work with the voice in relation to gesture and movement“, with our bodies, with our voices”, surrounded by music filled with pop-rock references from Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers. David Bowie– or phonetic poetry.
“There will be more sound than music”, He moves on from Picasso’s last period, which he has prepared around “an exhibition reminiscent of the earlier period, avoiding decadent, large paintings and painting on table or cardboard”. naive or unartistic art monsterto minimalism but also to cubism or graffiti » From here, the artist establishes sonic “parallels and connections” with the members of this strange choir.
He already presented one of the works in the exhibition with his own reading, President of Histrion, He retitled the exhibition, given that it was based on the fact that many of the Malaga native’s works were named by friends or gallery owners. A view that fits inside the cubeand wrote a text “about our way of contemplating and judging.”
New album, theater and another book
The artist from Elche is immersed in various projects for 2024. Mausoleum of celebration, love and deathHe will release another flamenco album next year and start working on a new flamenco album. theatrical version related to poet in new york directed by Lorca Carlos Marquerie, will direct the musical direction and enter the stage. He will also finish a new book and attend the fair in February. Sydney Biennale as a guest artist in a collaborative work with the artist and curator Pedro G. Romero.