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22 January 2024 Zaragoza (Spain)
Perversion
Enigma Group - Auditorio de Zaragoza, Sala Luis Galve
Program Info: “In a bastard, standardised, conformist and sick society, perversion is a force of liberation.” This phrase, which could have been extracted from one of the surrealist manifestos, corresponds to the text In Defense of Perversion by another great cultural and artistic agitator: the film maker Jonas Mekas (1922-2019). This program rotates and branches in many directions, like a kind of automatic surrealist program that emerges from the unconscious.
Breton said that surrealism was not afraid to make a dogma of absolute rebellion, of systematised sabotage: “don't expect anything that doesn't come from violence.” This is what the baroque composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704) seems to indicate with his Battalla a 10, where he tried to recreate with music the violent and chaotic reality of a military battle through original harmonic and technical resources, with which he shows Biber's baroque inventiveness.
In the 1960s, the composer James Tenney (1934-2006) created his Study of Noise, a work inspired by the daily trips he made between New Jersey and Manhattan, and with which he seems to paint the reality of his (our) time.
The evolution of cinema and its impact on society was a factor that greatly interested the surrealists. Few films and soundtracks have shaken the cultural conventions of an era like Hitchcock's Psycho and its famous soundtrack composed by Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975).
Cinema, television and fame were some of the great obsessions of another fascinating figure: Andy Warhol (1928-1987). Aware of the power of television, in the mid-80s Warhol, together with the MTV channel, created a program that would soon become, as the literary cafes were before, a reference space for (counter)cultural encounters.
The program concludes with a reference to magic, so important to the early surrealists. John Adams (1947), in the 1980s, created his work Shaker Loops , inspired by the now extinct Shaker communities where members danced and shook in a dance that culminated in an epiphany of physical and spiritual transcendence. This fact helped John Adams create a work where minimalism moves to the rhythm of the occult.
Program James Tenney - Noise Study (1961) electronics Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber - Battalia à 10 (1673) Jonas Mekas - In Defense of Perversion (1958) reading Bernard Herrmann - Psycho – Suite (1960) Andy Warhol - MTV “Fifteen Minutes” (1985) audio-visual John Adams - Shaker Loops (1982)
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