Radio Sketches – Music and Poetry of Action

Museo MAR Negra40 Club del Dibujo present

Radio Sketches music and poetry of action

performers

musica naranja Pamela Guruciaga Jorge Ihlenfeld Martín Virgili

works by Vincent Barras Samuel Beckett Giuseppe Chiari Bob Cobbing Jacques Demierre Jorge Ihlenfeld Martín Virgili

Saturday, August 15, 8:00 pm. Museo MAR Av. Camet and López de Gomara Mar del Plata

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Rough for Radio (1961) Samuel Beckett duration: 8’ 17”

Vocal-a (2013) Martín Virgili / Jorge Ihlenfeld duration: 9’ 40”

ABC of Sound (1965) Bob Cobbing duration: 6’31”

Découpe (2006) Vincent Barras / Jacques Demierre duration: 6’41”

Voicepiece (1967) Christian Hobbs duration: 8’45”

Simultaneously with Lavoro (1965) Giuseppe Chiari

On the repertoire

By Sabrina Salomón

Experimental poetry opens new possibilities for listening and shapes new sonic poetics that bring together art and advanced technology alongside the most primal, ritual actions of the body and the senses.

Where does the poem begin, and where the music? What are the borders, ruptures, and semantic transformations between the two languages? In poetry, the voice has always been a fundamental instrument for reading aloud — poetry as song. In contemporary and experimental poetry, the voice is not only the linguistic vehicle for conveying the poem, but also a rhythm born from the body, one that gives it meaning through intonation, bodily gesture, guttural sounds, and its material properties as it resonates within a given space.

What a performance piece reveals to us is something more than the sum of poetry and music, or of poetry and visual art; it is a particular kind of tension between different perceptual dimensions. Contemporary art and poetry come together to create interdisciplinary pieces that underuse both process and words alike, breaking down meanings in search of a possibility of liberation: letting words be what they do.