TELESCOPE II. FAROUT / SERGIO LUQUE / FRANCISCO COLOMER

The Farout Performative Research Group proposes a performative tour through the halls of the Museum, through the eyes of astrophysicist Dr. Francisco Colomer and the music of composer Dr. Sergio Luque. The proposal establishes a dialogue between science and art, astronomy and music, to reflect, together with the audience, on some fundamental questions about the universe and the human being.

Price: 10 €. Special discounts with Youth Card and PIC card (Pamplona Iruña Card).

Proposals in exhibition rooms

Limited capacity. 10 people/session

Schedule: 19:00/ 19:30/ 20:00/ 20:30 H

The limits of the universe are unknown, only its continuous expansion, and it is science that transforms the unknown into the known. This analogy is the starting point of this proposal which includes, among other actions, the world premiere of the musical work Telescope II by composer Sergio Luque.

"This piece is the second in a series of works I am composing while observing photographs of the universe taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The harmony and rhythm of this piece were written with the help of computer-implemented algorithmic composition methods. I am interested in creating chords with internal intervallic relationships at both ends of the consonance/dissonance continuum: chords with simultaneous consonances and dissonances that interfere with each other. As for the rhythmic sequences, I seek to generate behaviors that give the impression of spontaneity and that are, at the same time, unpredictable and coherent," says Luque.

"The Universe has always been a source of inspiration for all mankind, and astronomy the key to know our place in the Cosmos. But we face this scientific process with the limitations of not having access to reality, to the "what", nor to the "why" or "what for", but simply to the "how", while our senses challenge our capacity for observation and understanding. In this journey we face the immensity of time and space, the emptiness and cosmic solitude, and each finding generates new questions, consolidating astronomy (and Science) as an integral part of Culture", says Francisco Colomer.

ARTISTIC FILE

Original idea, conceptualization and design: Dr. Beatriz Pomés, Dr. Sef Hermans, Dr. Igor
Saenz
Composition: Telescope II, Dr. Sergio Luque (world premiere)
Scientific introduction: Dr. Francisco Colomer
Violins: Leire Fernández, Marta Ramírez García-Mina.
Viola: Daniel Sádaba
Cello: Paula Azcona
Piano: Eloy Orzaiz

TECHNICAL DATA
Production and audiovisual direction: Klemens Patijn
Music: Telescope I, Dr. Sergio Luque
Graphic design: Francisco Xabier Goñi Castañón
Photography: Francisco Bethencourt, Tijmen Hermans
Astronomical photography: NASA, ESA, Hubble Telescope
With thanks to: Sonnenborgh Sterrenwacht Museum, Utrecht

FAROUT PERFORMATIVE RESEARCH GROUP

Integrated by Dr. Beatriz Pomés, Dr. Sef Hermans, and Dr. Igor Saenz Abarzuza. Sponsored by the MUN, in 2019 they decided to set up to devise and develop multidisciplinary perfomative projects. Their activity is based on the methodology of practice-based-research and research-through-practice, in which the research object and the artistic result are in constant dialogue.

They take their name from the dwarf planet 2018 VG18, christened Farout (which translates as remote, distant). The collective, like the planet, is between the known and the unknown, looking to tradition, but wondering what lies beyond. Their artistic actions act as a meeting point around which other areas of knowledge are articulated: curatorship, multidisciplinarity, research, science, philosophy, participation, and other areas related to artistic practice, education and reflection.

DR. SERGIO LUQUE

Sergio Luque (Mexico City, 1976) is a composer of vocal, instrumental and electroacoustic music, and a computer music researcher. He lives in Madrid, where he co-directs and teaches in the Master in Electroacoustic and New Media Composition at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska, and is a visiting professor at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

His music has been performed by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, the Nieuw Ensemble and the Schönberg Ensemble, among others, and he has been a member of Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.

D. in Composition from the University of Birmingham, where he studied with Jonty Harrison and Scott Wilson and during which he worked on the development of the stochastic synthesis of Iannis Xenakis. He received a Master's degree in Sonology with honors from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he studied with Paul Berg and Kees Tazelaar. He obtained a Master's degree in Composition from the Rotterdam Conservatory, where he studied with Klaas de Vries and René Uijlenhoet. In 2003, he studied with Klaus Huber at the Acanthes Center in France.

DR. FRANCISCO COLOMER

Francisco Colomer is an astronomer, director of JIVE, the Joint Institute of VLBI, a European Research Infrastructure based in the Netherlands. Colomer received his PhD in astrophysics from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and an MBA in "Management of Research Infrastructures" from the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). He is a civil servant at the National Astronomical Observatory of Spain. During his career, he has participated in more than 100 scientific articles, numerous conferences and workshops, international projects and outreach activities. Colomer defends basic scientific research as a cultural asset in our society. The international perspective allows him to be also an "ambassador" of Spain in the world.