23 September 2023
19:00
Addressed to: General public
Location: This concert will take place under the Puente Viejo de Boñar. A parking space will be available nearby at these coordinates [42.875911782379475, -5.32373293829907] or by following this link:
Access to the parking area is through the Municipal Swimming Pools of Boñar. IMPORTANT: it is not necessary to cross the river, just follow the road to the swimming pools and cross the Puente Viejo Youth Camp. All public access to the concert will be from the car park.
ACCESS:
(You must present your invitation. (On Monday before the performance, at 10:00, we will enable here the option to get it easily and free of charge. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with us. contact with the Foundation. Thank you for your understanding).
Crossing Boñar means finding traces of the importance of water in this territory: mills, light factories, fountains, thermal springs. A stone bridge from the 17th century remains as a witness of the importance that the safe passages had and have in the river Porma. A few metres away, several creeks whisper as they flow between the stones, in contrast to the sonorous force of the water that the reservoir regulates kilometres upstream.
The echoes of the water echo across the bridge as if coming from many different places. We follow these water traces back upstream. Voices come to us from the creeks and the spa, whispers reverberating off the walls. We try to decipher the message by paying attention to the small, looking and listening in the corners.
Ainara LeGardon's work is rooted in rock and experimental music, currents that have used all kinds of mechanisms to strain the possibilities of sound. In the 1940s, research began into tape echoes: devices that can generate a sense of time lag by playing, recording and replaying a sound with a certain delay. The repetitive flow of water and wind through the eyes of the bridge leads us to imagine tape echoes, initially designed as elements for imitating the sonority of space, as systems for dialogue with the immaterial.
Under this premise, we find a point under the bridge where the resonance of the water speaks of memory. The clarity of the voices is blurred by the flow of the river. A dance of approaching and receding materialises inaudible whistles. The water and the wind make themselves heard in the proximity of the ear.
Sequence VIII approaches from the subtle to the memory of stone. Tape echoes, cassette recorders, a prepared guitar and, above all, the voice. A voice that seeks ephemeral resonance, the one that speaks looking downstream.
SEQUENCES is a cycle of sound interventions in space. Sequence VIII is a concert specifically designed by Ainara LeGardon to sound in the space. at y with the Old Bridge of Boñar.
Creation and interpretation: Ainara LeGardon
Technical assistance: Rafa Rodrigo
Commissioners: Luis Martínez Campo [FCAYC].
General coordination: Zaida Llamas [FCAYC].
Assembly and technical assistance: Fernando Robles [FCAYC].
Direct sound: Rafael Martínez del Pozo
Audiovisual documentation: Ismael Aveleira
In collaboration with: Boñar Town Council
