2023 marked the second consecutive year of collaboration between the Museum of Music of Barcelona and Graner, a creation factory, to jointly develop a project of research and creation, this time led by artist and choreographer Georgia Vardarou, focusing on sound and movement within the framework of the Creation and Museums program.
The research is based on three musical pieces derived from the exhibition “Listening with hands. Obsolete supports, ephemeral messages” at the Museum of Music. Georgia Vardarou invites the audience to share a “performance” that is experienced and in which they can participate, showcasing kinetic attempts that resonate and ultimately disintegrate until an autonomous dance material emerges. It’s a way to smooth out possible irregularities among our various perceptions.
Divergent Listenings: Studies on Denaturalizations of Movement and Sound
“We are in a room, the same one you are in now. We have researched three musical pieces derived from the temporary exhibition curated by Ferran, currently at the Museum. Georgia, Julia, and Martí have carried out a denaturalization process of these pieces using their respective languages. Eleni and Quim were also invited to think and create with us. Today, the research process unfolds as a performance that you can experience and perhaps be a part of. We will expose different stages of this denaturalization process until any resemblance to the initial material is destroyed, perhaps with the exception of the bodies. First, we will address Alvin Lucier’s work, then Philip Jeck’s Vinyl Coda I, and finally William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops. What you are going to hear are not these pieces, but what they have become over time and practice. What you will see, therefore, is not an established choreography on these pieces, but kinetic attempts that resonate and ultimately disintegrate until an autonomous dance material emerges. As a moving audience, you will be free to circulate and change perspective. Towards the end, what we produce may slip out of our hands.”
At the end of the circuit, the audience is led to a room where, if they wish, they can play the instruments and produce sounds, as the Baschet brothers, creators of some of the instruments used in the performance, would have liked.
The Creation and Museums Program connects Barcelona’s Creation Factories with different museums in the city to work together on a proposal presented within the programming of the Grec Festival of Barcelona.
- Georgia Vardarou: concept, research, creation, interpretation
- Júlia Rúbies Subirós: research, creation, interpretation
- Martí Ruiz Carulla: search, creation, sound
- Eleni Chaidemenaki: costume design
- Quim Bigas: dramaturgy
- Tristán Pérez-Martín: photography, video
- Acknowledgments to Peter Lenearts & Ferran Fages
- Co-produced by Graner and the Museum of Music of Barcelona.
- Photographs by Tristán Pérez-Martín
Date: June 30. Two sessions at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Venue: Museum of Music of Barcelona
Free admission, reservation is essential.
