The Museum hosts the start of the world tour of 'The electric voice', a project by Nicholas Isherwood that brings together musical pieces for voice and electronics.
The initiative brings together several centers, which invite a composer to create a special piece for the program. The one chosen by the MUN was Juan José Eslava, based in Pamplona, Spain.
06 | 04 | 2022
The Museo Universidad de Navarra hosts this Saturday, April 9, at 7.30 pm, the start of the world tour of The electric voice, a project by Nicholas Isherwood, composer and bass-baritone, one of the leading singers of early music and contemporary music in the world today, which brings together musical pieces for voice and electronics. Tickets are 14 and 16 euros.
The project is in its sixth edition and throughout the previous five editions has been delving into the relationships and tensions that exist between electronics and the most versatile and resilient of sounds, the human voice, in addition to fostering relationships between centers, composers and cities. On this occasion, Isherwood brings together theaters and centers of education, research and musical creation from all over the world to generate a program of pieces composed, each one of them, by a composer. The composers, in turn, are proposed by each of the venues hosting the event. The one chosen by the MUN has been Juan José Eslava, based in Navarra, with whom he had already worked on the composition of the opera Oteiza. His piece is Cuerpo abierto.
The composers are free to use all the possibilities of electroacoustic music in combination with the voice, and some pieces have also included audiovisuals. For Eslava, the experience of participating in this project has been "magical because through the Museum it has been possible to realize the work. It is not just one musician writing a score, but there are many people and resources involved that make the project possible".
In this sense, he highlights "the understanding, intelligence and flexibility" of the MUN, together with the collaboration of the Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo, in the realization of internal workshops on vocal and scenic issues, and the theater school Teatrolari, from Pamplona, directed by Javier Álvaro. He will be the actor participating in the piece. "This work has allowed the transformation of the piece, a change inherent to the artistic process and that has made the piece for voice and electronics, also add an actor, which gives a very important attraction to the recital."
This sixth edition of The Electric Voice is especially exciting, as it includes legendary festivals and electroacoustic music studios and composers from the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Europe. Each edition's programs seek to strike a balance by including composers of all age groups and both genres. It is especially important for the project to represent women composers, so their works make up at least a third of all the pieces in the project.
It is a worldwide event that starts at Museo Universidad de Navarra, which plans to visit the Saison Numérique de Montbeliard (France), the Florence Conservatory (Italy), the Warsaw Autumn Festival (Poland), the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras de Morelia (Mexico), the French Institute of Hanoi (Vietnam) and the IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) in Paris (France), founded by Pierre Boulez.
The concert will take place on Saturday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the MUN Theater and tickets cost 14 and 16 euros.
ARTISTIC FILE
Performer: Nicholas Isherwood
Live electronics: Jacopo Baboni
Artistic direction: Nicholas Isherwood
PROGRAM
Rodrigo Sigal (Mexico) : Micromégas
Luong Huệ Trinh (Vietnam) : La lettre perdue
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi (Italy): Notturno
Sina Fallazadeh (Iran): Cantique de Métèque
Aleksandra Bilinska (Poland): #2020 covid 1984 for Nicholas I.
Juan José Eslava (Spain): Cuerpo abierto (Open Body)