"El Colectivo maDam quiere explorar la frontera difusa entre improvisación y composición. Como improvisadores, participan en la interpretación de obras que, lejos de imponer un modelo a repetir, proponen situaciones e implican una profunda escucha. Tras las colaboraciones con Radu Malfatti, nariyamu (2010), y Lucio Capece, About 'The Society of Spectacle' Guy Debord 1967 (2007), el Colectivo maDam presenta en este concierto dos versiones de for maaike schoorel(2009), del compositor holandés Taylan Susam (1986) -miembro del colectivo Wandelweiser-, así como una realización de Four6 (1992), una de las últimas piezas concebidas por John Cage. Con esta propuesta, el Colectivo maDam pretende contribuir a la celebración del centenario del nacimiento de John Cage, mostrando la vigencia de sus ideas y lo fértiles que han resultado para jóvenes generaciones de músicos."
"Colectivo maDam wants to explore the diffuse border between improvisation and composition. As improvisers, they play works that rather than imposing a model to repeat propose situations and are focused in a deep listening act. After working with Radu Malfatti(nariyamu, 2010) and Lucio Capece (About "The Society of Spectacle" Guy Debord 1967, 2007), Colectivo maDam presents for this concert two versions of for maaike schoorel, 2009, a piece by the dutch composer and member of the Wandelweiser Group Taylan Susam (1986) and a realization of Four6 (1992), one of the last pieces conceived by John Cage. With this proposal, Colectivo madam intends to contribute to the celebration of the 100 years anniversary of John Cage's birth, demonstrating the validity of his ideas and how fertile they are for younger generations of musicians."
Diseño flyer: Mario Sarramián
Album: Drift / To become
Artists: Miguel A. García & Daniel Simon
Reference: RT_005 hybridaRT_label
Review by Rubén Gutierrez:
We don't need to think back to the London riots of August 2011 to find ourselves in a Ballardian context. Figures like the Spanish employment minister Fátima Báñez, the president of the Community of Madrid (Spain), Esperanza Aguirre or the magnificent Angela Merkel would have been characters that border on the implausible, and could have even been included in Ballard's dystopian visions. Thanks to the aggravation and extension of penal consequences in marches, the hardening of the Spanish penal code intends to slow down the likely escalade of civil insurrection provoked by the State's aggressive economic and social reforms, closing a context that, once again, leads us to the democratic agony and depletion of resources narrated by James G. Ballard. As regards discourse, for Ballard these resources are a search for bridges that will make certain metaphors explicit. Affirming that Miguel A. García and Daniel Simon's music in drift/to become could have been produced in the catacombs of Ballardian cities presided by cathedral-like shopping centres and immaculate airports, is all the more evident for certain readers who affirm that this music is without a doubt a product of a social context governed by people like Mariano Rajoy or Angela Merkel. But, in any case, that's the way it is. If you doubt it, I urge you to listen to drift/to become in your car, at night, as you travel with no clear destination down a bypass of any European city.
A new improvisational session performed by Queer Toys with the collaboration of the musician Antonio Caminero, as well as Javier Iriso and Mario Bastian. As a result, we got three pieces with a very peculiar sound obtained by playing with weird sound gadgets: Otamatone, Gakken Mini Theremin, original Stylophone, Thingamagoop, Stylophone Beatbox and 3 monotrons.
Una nueva session improvisatoria de Queer Toys, esta vez incorporando al músico Antonio Caminero además de Javier Iriso y Mario Bastian. Como resultado tres piezas con un sonido muy peculiar, jugando con extraños artilugios sonoros: Otamatone, Gakken Mini Theremin, Stylophone original, Thingamagoop, Stylophone Beatbox y 3 monotrones.
