Friday, November 28th, 2014, 19.30
SHUT UP AND LISTEN! AWARD 2014
Marta Azparren & Sergio Blardony (E)
Tracto I Audiovisual Work I
Tracto
Audiovisual Work
Tracto is a visual and sonic journey through the inside of a bass saxophone. The visual
trip is made with a medical video-endoscopes as if it was a digestive tract. The end of
the trip, the musician's mouth, appears as a promise of a new body and a new journey
not so different from the previous. Tracto is an interaction between the shown and the
hidden, the transgression of the unseen. The music is a composition created from sound
samples of the instrument itself, recording only the organic sounds, without generating
any note.
Tract is the image of an inert place, that, when touched, becomes an organic center, a
confluence of the dry and the moist, the perfect and the throbbing, the calculated and
the unpredictable. It is a journey through a preserved interior, the dark cave from
whose holes breath, halite and noise arise.
[Pilar Martín Gila]
MARTA AZPARREN
Director, video artist. A graduate in Fine Arts of Complutense University of Madrid, she shares artistic
activities between video art, visual arts and net.art. Her work has been showed in exhibitions, festivals
and international fairs worldwide.
http://www.martaazparren.es/
SERGIO BLARDONY
Sergio Blardony was born in Madrid in 1965, where he begins, at Royal High Conservatory of Music of
Madrid (Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid), his musical career, his higher studies having
essentially been autodidact. Afterwards, he studies composition with Roberto J. de Vittorio and –for four
years - with the composer José Luis de Delás at the School of Music of the University of Alcalá de
Henares. He has also attended both composition and analysis courses with professors Heinz-Klaus
Metzger, Rainer Riehn, Helmut Lachenmann, Enrico Fubini, Luis de Pablo, etc. Sergio Blardony has
composed over 60 works for all manner of instruments and voice: solo and chamber music, ensemble,
orchestral, vocal and choral, electroacoustic and multimedia, music-theater, …
http://www.sergioblardony.com/
trip is made with a medical video-endoscopes as if it was a digestive tract. The end of
the trip, the musician's mouth, appears as a promise of a new body and a new journey
not so different from the previous. Tracto is an interaction between the shown and the
hidden, the transgression of the unseen. The music is a composition created from sound
samples of the instrument itself, recording only the organic sounds, without generating
any note.
Tract is the image of an inert place, that, when touched, becomes an organic center, a
confluence of the dry and the moist, the perfect and the throbbing, the calculated and
the unpredictable. It is a journey through a preserved interior, the dark cave from
whose holes breath, halite and noise arise.
[Pilar Martín Gila]
MARTA AZPARREN
Director, video artist. A graduate in Fine Arts of Complutense University of Madrid, she shares artistic
activities between video art, visual arts and net.art. Her work has been showed in exhibitions, festivals
and international fairs worldwide.
http://www.martaazparren.es/
SERGIO BLARDONY
Sergio Blardony was born in Madrid in 1965, where he begins, at Royal High Conservatory of Music of
Madrid (Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid), his musical career, his higher studies having
essentially been autodidact. Afterwards, he studies composition with Roberto J. de Vittorio and –for four
years - with the composer José Luis de Delás at the School of Music of the University of Alcalá de
Henares. He has also attended both composition and analysis courses with professors Heinz-Klaus
Metzger, Rainer Riehn, Helmut Lachenmann, Enrico Fubini, Luis de Pablo, etc. Sergio Blardony has
composed over 60 works for all manner of instruments and voice: solo and chamber music, ensemble,
orchestral, vocal and choral, electroacoustic and multimedia, music-theater, …
http://www.sergioblardony.com/
shut up and listen! 2014
Interdisziplinäres Festival für Musik und Klangkunst
