Curating the concert

The following programs below were composed around a particular theme or special event in collaboration with the artistic directors of various concert halls or festivals. Some of which are co-productions and composition commissions. We hope to collaborate with other creative artistic directors, festivals and concert halls as well and fit them if ever into current themes and cutting-edge programming.

To me playing music can not be separated from the worlds we live in. I therefore like to look for conceptual lines of connection that address the interconnectedness of music, art, science and technology. The question of how music can trigger intuitive resonances with the new cosmologies of the future, which are in fact already here. Ecological mutation, the digital revolution or astrophysics, to name some of the most important ones. How they challenge and redefine our relationship to ourselves, other than human life-forms, the world, nature and the cosmos. In other words, art and music as the practice of a new aesthetics in the sense of developing and increasing our sensitivity to changing perspectives.

However, many of the ideas are not, of course, intended to be illustrative. Instead, the sound activities and interrelationships that can be heard in the music create powerful resonances with energy and cosmological processes. to give the example of astrophysics in the work of Hèctor Parra, processes such as acceleration, explosion, fusion, digression, conversion, rotation, oscillation, and interference. Not on account of their imitation in the sense of a musical depiction, but rather for the shaping of the energy phenomena and processes themselves in their pure musical expression.

Statement on the necessity of art, music and ecology as a new alliance against the victory of the inert.

1. Two centuries of cultural presuppositions, opposing nature and culture, have led to a generalized anthropization of environments, to the decline of relations with the rest of the living world.

2. Recovering a cultural relationship with life implies acting on representations, cognitive matrices, rites and habits.

3. How can we anticipate in music the consistency of the world impacted by the ecological crisis?

4. ‘To reconnect with the living, we need to broaden our listening, to hear the world rustle with signs and ideas everywhere, to reopen the landscape of meaning - to hear the ideas of water, the phrases of animals, the thoughts of trees and forests.’ - Marielle Macé

5. Listen the song that grows in us from the trees.

6. Everything in speaks through something else.

7. Everything in the world exists solely because of the clashes, alliances, ties and frictions between countless actors and entities.

8. Nature and the world are hybrids determined by actors intertwined into immense complex networks of human and nonhuman life forms, including non-organic ones such as mountains, glaciers and rivers, or electronic ones such as computers, ...

9. Respect and restore biotopes and emancipate new territories of consciousness.

10. To rethink in depth the relations between the human and the living.

11. To find the nature in oneself shared with the living and recognize the existence of the other inclusive mountains, rivers, oceans, plants, bacteria, viruses, planets, galaxies and black holes.

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