EXEGESIS. MUSICAL EXTRACTION / SYMBOLIC INSERTION

SYMBOLIC CORRESPONDENCES BETWEEN CATHOLIC FOLKLORE AND MÀKINA MUSIC IN THE OLD QUARTER IN BARCELONA

ACTIVITY 1/3

EXEGESIS. MUSICAL EXTRACTION / SYMBOLIC INSERTION

Talk

Following an initial analytical phase in which the three areas of interest for this research were mapped – Barcelona’s Catholic folklore, symbolic systems and màkina music – this activity marks the start of the second phase, in which we will be experimenting with the use of the identified symbolic systems, as a tool with hermeneutic potential for translating Catholic folklore into màkina music and vice versa.

Coinciding with the Feast Day of the Guardian Angels, we invite you to be living witnesses of an oral exegesis in real time in which, with an always unconcluded speculative approach and the help of some sound sequencing equipment, we will decode and reproduce possible musical materials based on elements chosen from among the local Catholic iconography.

Using culturally divergent artistic languages, this para-performative event will be exploring in a practical way the political contradiction that arises from, on the one hand, wanting to understand Tradition through a fragmentary praxis and, on the other, wanting to understand contemporary times through an essentialist logic.

Limited capacity

Prior registration is required, send an email to: lacapella@bcn.cat

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