L’Auditori presenta la imatge de la temporada 2019-20 creada per l’artista Perejaume i la productora Canada

06-May-2019 – Aleix Palau

L’Auditori today presented the new image for the 2019-20 season in a morning event at the Hivernacle de Sants that brought together the artist Perejaume, representatives from the production company Canada, the composer Pablo Carrascosa, the Frames Percussion group and the director of L’Auditori, Robert Brufau.

The artist Perejaume is in charge of creating the image for the season, which is titled Botànica del so (Botany of Sound) and plays with the concept of a gust of wind making music with the trees.

The collaboration with Perejaume showcases the promotion of dialogue between the arts and consolidates the aim of L’Auditori, which is to build a unified and cross-disciplinary artistic project which provides a place for any discipline.

Perejaume has created an image for the season and also for each of the branches that make up the programming at L’Auditori, from the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and the Barcelona Symphony Band, to the Cambra, Antiga, OBCPops, Jazz Sessions, Escenes and Sampler Sèries seasons.

The artist explains it as follows:

How can we plant an image in front of L’Auditori and make sound with it? How can we make sound with an image?

I have always liked plant nurseries with trees and plants lined up in earth-filled pots, because they still don’t have them here and many plants there are have been tied to canes and sticks to keep them upright. In reforestation nurseries, trees and tree shoots appear to be on the verge of walking, as if their planting were a lengthy movement involving taking them from the nursery where they were all the way to where they were to live.

In nurseries, the trees are grouped together in very regular or irregular formations, being reconfigured as a kind of experimental forest. When the wind blows, the trees unfurl an orchestrated sound that grows and climbs and moves, shaking the trees and the sound of the trees so that with each gust of wind the melody intensifies, lengthens and dissolves.

Beyond the nurseries, there is much windswept botany, with the winds blustering over the most varied terrains and the varying amounts of vegetation that refine them: geophonies, biophonies under the sun, rain or at night, with the gaping valley and the blossom-rich airs. The instrumentation is extraordinary and the volume is unparalleled.

As for the trees as wind instruments with branches and shoots, the drive of stems and structuring of branches and bark, the image is tangled with salivated sounds and the xylem as saliva, the birdsong and wing flap of the birds, the flowers that attract the zum-zum of the insects, the song fed with cherries, the rugged bitter words… that sort of thing.

So we are given this botany of sound. We could even point to a near-botany of sound that is planted by the wind, watered by the wind and reaped by the wind. But there is also, in the image with which we have tried to make sound, an ancestral botanical sound from the agrarian and forest-based harvesting of sound and with L’Auditori as its nursery.


Canada produces the season’s video

In order to take a step further in this dialogue between artistic disciplines and to give an innovative look, L’Auditori has commissioned an audiovisual piece by the prestigious and multiple award-winning Barcelona producer, renowned for its groundbreaking aesthetic vision and its quest for new languages.

Directed by Héctor Herce, the video takes Perejaume’s concepts of nature and wind as its starting point and develops a three-minute story that steps outside the usual story forms of classical music.



In the words of its director:

The project is a metaphorical representation of music as an organic creation. That’s why it starts out with nature as a creator. Nature is sound and, at the same time, raw material for the making of musical instruments.

The idea is that the musical interpretation of natural sounds can lead to a young woman creating a full musical season by recording and mixing them and was something that emerged in an almost “natural” way. This is a piece halfway between fantasy and realism.

By dealing poetically with this concept, one can say that everything is born of something primordial as nature is, because afterwards human beings, from their imagination and talent, take what is given to them by the earth and transform it into their own artistic creation.


Artists


Perejaume

Catalan artist and writer. Self-taught, he educated himself by delving into the works of Joan Brossa, J. V. Foix and Jacint Verdaguer, writers who influenced the development of his artistic outlook, as did the popular culture of the Maresme and the world of peasantry. Combining artistic and literary creation, his work brings together painting, sculpture, words, action, video and sound, in order to question the relationship between nature and culture. In 2005 received the Generalitat (Government) of Catalonia National Prize for Visual Arts for his book Els cims pensamenters and, in 2006, the National Prize for the Plastic Arts of the Spanish Ministry of Culture for his “reformulation of the relationship between art and territory”. Among his best-known interventions and exhibitions are the ceiling rosettes in the Liceu opera house (1999), the retrospectives Deixar de fer una exposició (MACBA, 1999) and Ai Perejaume, si veies la munió d’obres que t’envolten, no en faries cap de nova! (La Pedrera, 2011) and his participation in the CCCB exhibition La màquina de pensar with the video installation La rel de l’arbre és una roda (2016). Notable among his books are L’obra i la por (Gutenberg Galaxy, 2007), Pagèsiques (Edicions 62, 2011, winner of the Ciutat de Barcelona Award and also the Lletra d’Or Award, 2012), Paraules locals (Tushita Edicions, 2015) and Treure una marededéu a ballar (Gutenberg Galaxy, 2018).

Héctor Herce

The young Madrid filmmaker started his career just over two years ago, more than enough time to emphasise his style and taste in all kinds of work.

The symbiosis between message and aesthetics that is palpable in video clips by artists such as C. Tangana, Cupido or The Parrots, also flourishes in his short films (Las flores de plástico no se marchitan), fashion films (Ácrata) and work in advertising (Oysho – The Nature Journey).

Canada

Canada is an international production company set up in Barcelona. About to celebrate its 10th anniversary, its work in the world of video clips is especially well-known.

Its videos, among many others, for Beck or Tame Impala have been included in the Grammy Awards and MTV VMAs in the USA.

Its most recent work includes several collaborations with Rosalia, including the videos for the songs Malamente and Pienso en tu mirá, that have contributed enormously to the international promotion of the Catalan artist.

Focused on production in the broadest sense of the word, Canada develops its operations day by day in areas ranging from advertising to fiction films.


You can download the video and images here

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