The stage of the theater of the Museo Universidad de Navarra will be transformed into a musical laboratory by Vertixe Sonora this March 12, at 7:30 pm. The Galician ensemble presents in Pamplona Fulgora concert that questions our relationship with sound from different points of view. It will perform pieces composed by Heather B. Frasch, Mauricio Pauly, Ramón Otero and Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, inspired by an original text by María Salgado. Tickets are 16 and 14 euros.

As Pablo Coello, musical director and saxophonist of Vertixe Sonora explains, "there is a very important visual component. Although the object is the sound itself, each of the four pieces has a scenic, visual and sometimes dramatic dimension that will capture the spectator's attention". In this sense, he emphasizes that "that attention in the visual will serve to perceive in a clearer and more understandable way everything that happens in the sound sphere. There is a value in the pure contemplation of sound, but the visual stimuli will channel the attention towards a greater enjoyment of the show".

CITY, SILENCE, TECHNOLOGY

The exploration of the noise of the city is the proposal of the piece created by Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca. "It approaches the urban space in a hybrid territory between the massive (wholesale) and the tiny (retail), between screams and whispers, between industrial noise and the tinkling of everyday life, integrating urban recordings of Acoustic Mirror, heteronym of producer Kamen Nedev", specifies the musical director.

The concert also proposes a nostalgic atmosphere in which technology and objects are integrated in a natural way, through the work of Heather B. Frasch: "We will give way to sound as something fragile, reflective and intimate, a perspective from which we must 'observe' the sonic sculptures of Heather Frasch. Frasch: "We will give way to sound as something fragile, reflective and intimate, a perspective from which we must 'observe' Heather Frasch's sonic sculptures, subtly manipulated by the performers, here turned into sound sculptors".

Another of the paths explored is the reflection on sound itself, as a mirror of itself, in the work of Mauricio Pauly. Thus, Coello points out, "sound is something physical, manipulable by our movements, gestures and actions, as can be discovered in this work. It is the musical instruments, the movements of the performers and the interaction with the microphones and loudspeakers that generate a new sound dimension completed by the electronics of four sound sources scattered among the audience.

Finally, Ramón Otero's premiere piece, entitled Lumbre-fulgor-extinción, plays with the delicate border between sound and silence. His music will guide the spectator in an unheard listening through the perception of an unnoticed gesture, of a furtive glance, of the sound of grass growing...

The four pieces, two of them written specifically for the Galician ensemble, are part of the spirit of exploration that characterizes it, "working with young composers in the search and settlement of new forms of expression".

This engine also connects with the current creative paradigm that, in the words of Vertixe Sonora's musical director, "we want to prioritize the organic, so that technology and musician merge, where the limits and boundaries are not perfectly defined. This concert is an example of this: to identify which of the things that happen are produced directly by the musician and the instruments, which are completely alien to him and which are a true sound hybrid is not easy to discern. Therein lies its expressive strength. It is an integration that flows in a natural way".