Open Call to Take Part in Eine Brise
- Date
- 17 December 2016
Negra40 · Club del Dibujo · Museo MAR · Goethe-Institut
AMPLIACIÓN Joseph Beuys Conference Days 2016 Mar del Plata – Argentina
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Open call: 111 cyclists
To take part in Eine Brise (1996), by Mauricio Kagel.
Eine Brise (A Breeze) is a fleeting action for 111 bicycles. The piece calls for 111 cyclists to fit their bikes with bells or horns, so that together we conjure a sonic mass on two wheels.
The action will take place on Saturday, December 17, 2016, at 7:30 pm, in the vicinity of the MAR Museum of Contemporary Art, Mar del Plata, as part of the AMPLIACIÓN program of activities for the Joseph Beuys Conference Days.
Participants in Brise should have:
- a bicycle (fitted with a bell or a horn).
- a kickstand on the bicycle (or some way to keep it upright when not in motion).
- the ability to ride a bicycle.
- full commitment and willingness to take part.
- Note: the general rehearsal will be held that same Saturday the 17th at 6:00 pm, and attending it will be essential to performing in Brise.
- No musical knowledge is required to take part in Brise.
Direction: Martín Virgili Assistant directors: Mariano Losi and Jorge Ihlenfeld
Important
Those interested should send an email with their first and last name and a phone number (mobile, preferably, or landline) as far in advance as possible.
About the piece
The composition is based on L. V. Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111, linking the opus number (111) precisely to the number of cyclists. The coincidence holds up — or rather, amuses us. Mar del Plata is a city built for two wheels: the edges of its streets invite you to move through it in balance.
But this noble way of getting around still finds no counterpart among motor vehicles. Brise is a call to attention, an encounter of positions, a way of raising one’s voice against the dangers of the street.
Performed in more than 50 of the world’s major cities, Kagel’s composition invites us to be part of a music that is a gesture, and that is also something like the wind. What do you say? Who’s in?