Score
Partitura / Score, 2017
Sound, video animation, lecterns, tablets, graphite on lined paper.
Variable dimensions
Conceived as a plural work, the installation matured over the last ten years. Some 70 musicians and technicians collaborated to materialize this, my first interactive work.
Numerous tours of two cities, Madrid and Bilbao, served as material for this work based on the personal and friendly relationship I have with urban musicians. This work has borrowed the sound of wind, string and percussion instruments and of singers and composers to bring back a thousand times those ‘sonorous’ moments of the city.
In this installation we can see a group of elements that mimics a symphony orchestra. Each music stand contains a tablet with a musician playing and his or her paper. In the middle, presiding over the orchestra, we find the podium corresponding to its conductor. It is here that we hear all these musicians performing together a score composed by Esteban Puebla. Nor does this work lose sight of its proposal as a sound archive, at the same time as it strives to propose a new visual space. A game of looking and listening, Partitura / Scoreis designed to be a random changing space that proposes different journeys and encounters within a city in constant transformation.
Installation view at Azcuna Zentroa, 2017
Photo: Oak-Taylor Smith
Installation view at Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), 2019
Photo: Kim Chanel
Installation view at Galleria Continua San Gimignano, 2021
Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio
Installation view at Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), 2019