PROJECTS
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FREE IMPROVISED MUSIC:
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FREE IMPROVISED
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Paloma Carrasco López (cello, dance)
Ernesto Santana (sound, live sound action) This project brings a series of spatial sound recordings (and video recordings, as a support) drawn by the movement of the performer with her instrument in different improvisation spaces. The idea is to record both: the sound of movements and gestures and the sound of the instrument in different locations interacting with the space, as well as the sound of the space itself as a container for the action happening. The result is a collection of 3D audio recordings (to be heard with headphones), supported or not by video recordings. Each recording is conceived as a register evoking the performing space, through the recorded sounds and their way of inhabiting it, both spatially and temporarily. It is about making the inhabited space sound and beat with the improvisation, and about leaving a sonic footprint of this action. After each recording session, an open live improvisation is also proposed in the same space, interacting with the recording made there.
Interview (in Spanish) |
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David Leahy (double bass, dance)
Paloma Carrasco López (cello, dance)
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At CRUCE (Madrid, 2018)
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A space for an interdisciplinary research on free improvisation
among musicians an dancers The aim of this project is to open and maintain a committed researching and collaborating space, in the field of free improvisation among musicians and dancers. This research is focused on communicative and listening aspects among these two disciplines. From 2014 I've been extending my musical development with an exploration in movement through Contact Improvisation. That brought me to find convergent pathways among these two disciplines. Remarkable parts in this process were: a first scenic project, re-cuerdas; my collaboration with the improvised music and dance company OmosUno; my final project to conclude the learning program in Contact Improvisation in Madrid (FCI Madrid); and, definitely, ideas and experiences exchanged with David Leahy, together with practical meetings with him in London for his project Musicians in Space. In November'16 our duo in improvised music and dance was born, and his successful workshop in Madrid Touching Sound made clear that a real demand exists in this common field for dancers and musicians. That's how this project comes up, as a new beginning for a shared and extended exploration. The monthly ROUND·jam·ROBIN for improvised music and dance is the base initiative in this project. This is conceived as an open but guided framework to explore interdisciplinar improvisation.
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Touching Sound (Madrid, 2016) - Photo: Jerónimo Molero
ROUND·jam·ROBIN (Madrid, 2017)-Photo:M.Ángel García
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Ricardo Tejero (saxophones, clarinet)
Paloma Carrasco López (cello, piano) Paloma and Ricardo are two musicians and old friends who have shared musical sensitivity and experiences for a long time. Both of them constitute BRUO DUO, a project that materializes their free improvised music, impregnated by their individualities but always finding many common spaces. There is not a predominant discourse; their aesthetic line is any of those expressing themselves.
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At La Puerta Estrecha (Madrid, 2015)
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Javier Pedreira (guitar)
Paloma Carrasco López (cello, piano) Since its birth in November 2008, Moon:Dos moves into a relentless search for new timbric worlds, somewhere between electrics and acoustics, tracing unexplored paths through which sound and energy flow without barriers. Music and musicians gathering and interacting with different ways of art and artists is part of this adventure.
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Duo premiere gig (Madrid, 2008)
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A dissenting music is needed. Music has been commodified, packaged, and disinfected. Now, more than a mere commodity, it has turned into a "consumable", a spendable element, with a becoming earlier expiration date. Our purpose is to create a unique experience aiming to revitalize brain before it turns into a vestigial organ.
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Session at Abantos mountain (Madrid, 2013)
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FOCO is a free improvisers orchestra. It was founded in 1996 in the context of Musicalibre, the Spanish Association of Improvised Music. Since then, it has regularly performed in Madrid at the International Festival of Improvised Music Hurta Cordel, as well as in many other locations in Spain. It's become the most permanent and regular improvising orchestra in Europe. It's composed of about 30 musicians from different parts of Spain and different musical backgrounds.
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Conducted by Terry Day (Madrid, 2013)
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Marcos Monge (saxophones, bass clarinet)
Paloma Carrasco López (cello, piano) This duo emerged in 2007, in the context of FOCO Orchestra and Musicalibre Association, entities to which both musicians belong to. Perhaps reacting to that topic of progressive and long musical development, commonly assumed in free improvised music processes, the duo brings out shorter but concentrated pieces of music... what we call micro-pieces: a musical bazaar offering variety in concentrate small jars... or no... The main unifying ingredient for the duo is a "shared feeling" about sound and the way to experiment with it, always present from the very first encounter.
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At Hurta Cordel Festival (Madrid, 2010)
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