Sigma Project

 Friday / February 24 / 7:30 p.m.
 Approximately 90 minutes
 14 and 16

SIGMA Project proposes a musical program that brings us closer to some of the main authors who participated in the 1972 Pamplona Encounters, taking them even further. Before the concert, at 6:00 p.m., there will be a meeting to share the keys to the program.

The audience shares the stage with César Barrio's pictorial action and pieces from a concert that brings to life the compositions and spirit that animated that artistic event in the summer of '72: multidisciplinarity, the renewal of musical languages, and contemporary creative work based on traditional or heritage elements, artistic keys shared by the MUN.

Four5 (1991) by J. Cage will be accompanied on stage by pictorial action, percussion by Manu Gaigne, and sound recordings of the txalaparta by the Artze brothers. Xenakis' Xas (1987) will allow us to enjoy its difficult meter and virtuosity. Luis de Pablo will be present with the score of his latest public premiere, LdP (2021). Alongside these musicians present at the Encuentros del 72, other current heirs to their artistic keys complete the program.

ARTISTIC CREDITS

SIGMA Project
Andrés Gomis / Ángel Soria / Alberto Chaves / Josetxo Silguero, saxophones
Manu Gaigne, soundscapes, percussion
Fco. Javier Larreina, stage design
César Barrio, visual arts

SIGMA Project

"If I had to sum up the personality of the SIGMA Project quartet in two words, I wouldn't hesitate: originality and perfection. It is a pleasure, a joy to share music with them: they communicate it, they bring it to life." Luis de Pablo

SIGMA Project is the sum of the talents of Andrés Gomis, Ángel Soria, Alberto Chaves, and Josetxo Silguero. This saxophone quartet has become an essential vehicle for instrumental music in the 21st century. Their collaborations with Luis de Pablo have been constant and exciting. Since its founding in 2018, SIGMA Project has performed more than 200 concerts in auditoriums and festivals around the world. Its marked modularity ranges from the homogeneity of a formation of four identical instruments to maximum instrumental diversity. They develop multidisciplinary work with other arts; video, dance, literature, theater, and painting are naturally integrated into their concerts, also reviving music from the past.

They are capable of generating new grammars in a veritable sound laboratory, which has led them to work with renowned composers such as Alberto Posada and José María Sánchez Verdú, but also to perform more than 50 world premieres by dozens of European and Latin American composers.

This dynamic of searching and research has resulted in several recordings with different record labels.

PROGRAM

Minutes before the concert, an art performance will begin, developed
by artist César Barrio, accompanied by soundscapes created by Manu Gaigne.

- Four5 (1991) by John Cage (1912-1992) 13’20
with soundscapes by Artze Anaiak [txalaparta]
- A TEMPO (2018) by Alberto Bernal (1978) 15'15 with video projection
Interlude I (Manu Gaigne)
- Ash, music for the Eremozoic (2020) by Liza Lim (1966) 21'30
Interlude II (Manu Gaigne)
- XAS (1987) by Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) Xenakis Centenary Celebration 9'00
- Milk spilt on a stone (2017) by Helga Arias (1984) 10'50 with video projection
Interlude III (Manu Gaigne)
- LdP (2021) by Luis de Pablo (1930-2021) 12'30