Exotica. Mauricio Kagel

Six performing musicians belonging to the Neopercursión ensemble, directed by Juanjo Guillém, will perform more than one hundred percussion instruments in a concert in collaboration with Colectivo E7.2.

General admission: 12 and 8€.

"Theatrical spirit, humor and musical creativity", shows us the interpretation of Exótica, a piece written by Mauricio Kagel between 1971 and 1972, brought to stage on this occasion with a theatrical concept whose responsible is Pablo Ramos as stage director. The piece is composed for non-western instruments and voice, mixing recordings from different musical traditions with live performance. As stated in the introduction to the show, "From naïve fascination to condescending caricature, Exótica introduces on stage the absurdity of our perception of the world, inviting the audience to travel to the confines of the construction of musical identity".

Exotica was written for non-western instruments and voice. Each performer becomes both instrumentalist and singer, in the manner of traditional musicians. Mauricio Kagel explains: "In Exotica I did not want to incorporate exotic modes, figures or rhythms in a cultured way, but on the contrary in a wild, natural, raw state (...). With Exotica we are constantly suspended above an exalting precipice, nothing to do with ethnic music, nor with the serial combination of contemporary music (...)".
Mixing musical recordings from the most diverse traditions with live performance, challenging Western musicians to play instruments of various origins, invoking disguised voices and unheard sonorities, Exotica is a unique work where theatrical spirit and humor combine with musical creativity.

Nearly forty years after its composition, and at a time when the question of cultural miscegenation and its necessary conciliations is in the spotlight, Exotica proposes a special reflection on the music of others.

ARTISTIC FILE

Neopercusion

Juanjo Guillem and Rafa Gálvez

Guest artists

Pilar Fontalba, Joan Soriano and Carlota Cáceres and Gala Iniesta

Stage Manager

Pablo Ramos

E7.2

E7.2, a group of musicians, artists and cultural managers dedicated to contemporary music.

E7.2 includes Pilar Fontalba, Pablo Ramos, Juan José Eslava, Leandro Suárez and Salva Tarazona. All of them contribute, from their specific fields, their experience, reflection, artistic criteria and personal involvement in the international context of art, with a high level of professionalism and the premise of assuming the challenge of contributing to this context, from the city of Pamplona, a space for creation, reflection, education and innovative artistic development.

In addition, it is conceived as a whole as the node of a crossroads: performers, composers, sound artists, visual artists, choreographers, thinkers, educators, will address issues proposed by the collective generating vectors that ensure continuity over time and therefore a profound impact on the cultural life of Pamplona as well as the opportunity to deepen the issues addressed.

The objective is the realization of a series of proposals that allow, in collaboration with the living structures of the city (Museo de la Universidad de Navarra, Museo Oteiza, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Huarte, Museo de Navarra, Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Gobierno de Navarra, Teatro Gayarre, etc.) to carry out a stable and continuous program in the field of contemporary music, including local, national and international proposals.