(neo)liberal systems #5 “affirmation”
Formation: 3 instruments + videoprojection
Creation: september-november 2023
Duration: ca. 9 min.
Premiere: 24-11-2023. Würth Museum (Logroño, Spain), TRIO ZUKAN
(neo)liberal systems is a series of pieces around the paradox of exercising an almost endless freedom within a context that tolerates it, but at the same time it assimilates it in different systems that manage and reduce it to an unitary function and signification.
In all the pieces there is a radical differentiation between the materiality produced by the musicians and the ruling system. There no conventional score showing to the musicians what they should play, but instead, they have the liberty to decide (previously or not, negotiated or not) their own material, instruments and way of playing.
This concrete piece presents a fake interaction between live music and the audiovisual content which is shown in parallel. Every action from the live musicians, apparently conducted as a bidirectional interaction between performers and audiovidual system, is at last carried to a unidirectional self affirmation of the system over itself through the ongoing repetition of a text fragment by Ayn Rand, ideologue of the anarchocapitalism.
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