The concert, sponsored by Bodegas y Viñedo Qumrán and made possible with the collaboration of the Peñafiel City Council, will start at 20:30h. This preview concert will be the colophon of a documentary produced and filmed the previous days by The DK
The author of this work is Ángel Arranz [1976], Spanish composer, sonologist and musicologist born in this same city and living in The Netherlands. He is associated researcher at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague as well as artistic director of the multidisciplinary collective The DK
In words of the platform self, in this wide-range cultural event, “the dialogue between architecture and music proposed by Konkrit Blu and Ángel Arranz aims to continue an universal artistic tradition still to be further explored in the history of Spain”. They say that “this path starts in Florencia en 1436, with the collaboration between the architect Filippo Brunelleschi and the chapel-master Guillaume Dufay, and it is not realized again until the 20th and 21th centuries”, with scarce examples such as the collaboration in 1958 between the architect Le Corbusier, the composer and architect Iannis Xenakis and the composer Edgard Varèse in the Phillips Pabilion in Brusels; the piece Prometeo by the composer Luigi Nono, created with the contributions of the architect Renzo Piano in 1984 and performed in Venice and Milan; or more recently in 2004 with the artistic tandem formed by the architect Lars Spuybroek and the sound artist Edin van der Heide for the creation of the interactive sound installation Son-O-House in the small Dutch city of Son-e-Breugel.
The firs piece of this series, Qumran for saxophone and electronics, will be premiered on the 19th november thi year with occasion of the 23th International Electronic Music Festival Punto de Encuentro in Valencia [ES].
Bodegas Qumrán was short-listed in 2010 in the category Young Architect of the Year in the Leaf Awards in London.
This winery situated in the Ribera del Duero area has been designed by the Barcelona-based architecture firm Konkrit Blu. In this recital of instrumental music assisted by electronic media will perform international artists and soloist of wide renown such as the saxophonist Josetxo Silguero, the percussionist Raphaël Simon and the visual artist Beatriz del Saz.
