At the heart of this programme is the relationship between humans and technology from three different points of view: that of the creator, that of the performer and that of the audience.

For creators, technology can be fascinating and expressive in itself, or it can be a tool for imagining new worlds of sound. From the most basic unit of information - the bit - to live sound processing in electronic form, to fixed electronics designed by 5.1 sourround system, the pieces in this programme reflect ways of understanding and relating to the machine.

The second point of view emerges from the dialogue between the performer and the electronics, inviting us to reflect on

the technology we can control and the one that controls us,

the technology that replaces us and the technology that replaces reality,

the technology that sets us free and the technology that limits us

or

the technology that connects us and the technology that isolates us.

Finally, understanding the intentions behind any technology and questioning the relationship we have is one of the most immediate challenges we face as a society. This is where the role of the public (their point of view) is fundamental.

Programme

Nuria Giménez-Comas, Abraxas (2013) for electronics in 5.1 and video by Dan Browne [11']

Tristan Perich, Observations (2008) for two sets of crotals and 6 channels of 1-bit electronics [11'].

Elena Rykova, Silenced (2019) for two timpani and real-time electronics [20']

Below we add the notes in the programme that Elena Rykova indicates should be attached to the performances of her work:

Silence is golden, or so I was told when I was young.

Silence is the ocean of the unsaid, the unspeakable, the repressed, the erased, the unheard. It surrounds the scattered islands made up of those allowed to speak and of what can be said and who listens. Silence occurs in many ways for many reasons; each of us has his or her own sea of unspoken words.

Silences built upon silences, a city of silence that wars against stories. A host of citizens silencing themselves to be accepted by the silenced. People meeting as caricatures of human beings, offering their silence to each other, their ability to avoid connection. Dams and seawalls built against the stories, which sometimes break through and flood the city.

In the landscape of silence, the three realms might be silence imposed from within; silence imposed from without; and silence that exists around what has not yet been named, recognized, described, or admitted. But they are not distinct; they feed each other; and what is unsayable becomes unknowable and vice versa, until something breaks.

(excerpts from The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit)

Bio

FRAMES Percussion is a percussion group dedicated to newly created repertoire. Formed by a new generation of spanish percussionists, the group was born with the intention of facing the most demanding programmes of the current repertoire, with a careful preparation and the maximum respect for the new compositional languages.

The impact of their presentation in 2014, with the performance of an ambitious programme of American post-minimalist music, has led the group to carry out an incessant activity around this repertoire, achieving the best reviews from specialists and the general public. Initially linked to Juventudes Musicales de Cataluña and the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, the group has participated in the Sampler Series and Escenes del Auditori de Barcelona, OUT.SIDE Series, Festival Mixtur, "Jóvenes Intérpretres" of Fundación Juan March, and JUNTOS Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de València, among others.

FRAMES' repertoire includes some of the most iconic works of music for percussion ensemble and has collaborated with and premiered works by composers such as Luis Codera Puzo, Nuria Giménez-Comas and Sirah Martínez, Yukiko Watanabe, Cathy van Eck, Ruud Roelofsen and Pablo Carrascosa. In addition, the group has created shows such as 5,100 (m/s) with Joan Català or Out of the [CAGE] for the Auditori's Educational Service, a staged concert of an educational nature.(www.framespercussion.com)

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