Saxophonist and coordinator of educational projects Pau Torres Serra will conduct this July 13 at the Sala de Armas of the MACE a musical audition with students of the workshop he teaches at the Patronato de Música de Ibiza
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Eivissa (MACE) and the saxophonist and educational project coordinator Pau Torres Serra will offer this weekend to the public of the MACE a proposal in which art and music go hand in hand.
The event will take place on Saturday, July 13 at 12 noon and will consist of a musical audition in the Sala de Armas inspired by the exhibition on its walls, ‘La Scoperta del Fuoco’, by Santi Moix.
As he himself explains, Torres will conduct the concert, in which his students of the workshop ‘Sessions col.lectives d’improvisació lliure i música experimental’which he currently teaches at the Patronato Municipal de Música de Ibiza. The youngest of the performers will be Kaizen Delgado Ratain charge of percussion, who is only five years old. In addition, three more students will be part of the musical experiment: Miquel Planells Tur (trombone); Joana Planells Tur (trumpet) and Luisa Ocejo Lorenzo (cello). They will be joined by two professional musicians who “will act as support”, Heinrich Klassen (oboe) and Xico Ribas Tur (synthesizers).
The Sala de Armas of the MACE hosts until November the exhibition ‘La Scoperta del Fuoco’, by Santi Moix. / VICENT MARÍ
The group will hold a session in which the vegetable paradise that Moix has created in the Sala de Armas will serve as a source of inspiration. For about an hour, “the ephemeral sound” of his instruments will dialogue with “the fleeting beauty” of the flowers painted by the Catalan artist, feeding back to “create a unique and unrepeatable sensitive experience”.
“The concert is based on methodologies of free improvisation and concepts of intuitive music and wants to accompany for a few moments the sense of the exhibition,” they point out from the MACE.
Performative action
The proposal arose after Pau Torres’ visit to the exhibition ‘La Scoperta del Fuoco’, which will be open to the public until November 15 in the museum of Dalt Vila. She was its director, Elena Ruiz Sastrewhom the musician had previously contacted, who gave him the idea of creating an event in which “improvised music” could be linked to contemporary art.
“Just like the musical performative action that we will hear this Saturday, Santi Moix’s exhibition also has some improvisation in its composition and its flowers can be taken as metaphorical notes that are sounding trying to find harmony”, values the director of the MACE.
Santi Moix, at MACE, on the opening day of his exhibition / Toni Escobar
The initiative, says Ruiz, he also “liked it a lot” the Catalan artist creator of the ‘La Scoperta del Fuoco’, who was at the opening of the exhibition on June 13 and plans to travel again to Eivissa next week to offer a guided tour at the MACE on July 19 at 8 p.m.
Pau Torres Serra, the director of this audition with free admission and limited seatinghe trained at Musikene, the Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco, and at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen, specializing in classical and contemporary saxophone, improvisation and pedagogy. According to information provided by the Eivissa Town Hall, the saxophonist is a member of very diverse ensembles and coordinates educational projects related to music and art with his project ‘Taller de Músiques’.