¡SILENCIO, POR FAVOR!
In the organizer's words:
The idea of absolute silence is both pleasing and threatening at the same time. Silence can be wellness or torture, a coveted resource or an absolute nightmare. Above all, however, it is an impossibility: "Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot", stated John Cage after he visited an anechoic chamber and encountered not silence, but the buzzing of his nervous system and the throbbing of his blood.
¡Silencio, por favor! initiates a search for perfect silence, knowing full well that it does not exist. Therefore, when the ensemble searches for silence, it is actually searching for sounds: sounds of everyday life, sounds of chance, unintentional sounds and inaudible sounds that buzz through the room in the form of imperceptible frequencies. Using selected works by John Cage and Cathy van Eck and with the help of sound artist Marta Zapparoli's antennas, Björnsson / Marx and Opera Lab create a dense network of music, sounds and texts, opening up a space for reflection and experience in which the ambivalence of silence and the contingency of our acoustic perceptions are negotiated.
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