A assemble of music, pictures, sound installations, videos and scores speaks of composer Mesias Maiguashca’s artistic career throughout the exhibition “Los sonidos posibles (The Possible sSunds)”, opened at the Contemporary Art Center on July 6.
“Mesias Maiguashca: Los sonidos posibles”, opened to the public through September 8, suggests a musical and sonorous geography of the composer. And, out of that geography, between 1959 and 2013, it outlines passable spaces for visitors to live new musical and sonorous experiences. This anthological showcase also proposes the return of sound to the territory; in other words, a shared search for senses by using such resources as audition and interactivity.
Putting emphasis on periods and process that allow viewers to look and listen to Maiguashca in different scales, “Los sonidos posibles” is the result of dialogues –in different moments and places- held between Mesias Maiguashca and Oido Salvaje Experimental Center. So, “Los sonidos posibles” is an approach to the corpus of Maiguashca’s work by dealing with three matters of sonorous bridges between the composer and his public:
- Spread the music, a review of Mesias Maiguashca’s educative and creative processes, linked to changes in terms of music canons during the second half of the 20th century –new systems of composition and language generation with electronic and electroacoustic media, etc.-
- What sounds … proposes a series of sonorous experiences related to traditional objects –bronze pans, for instance – so as to arouse questions among the visitors on the technologies used by Mesias Maiguashca for his compositions and the material nature of sound and its languages.
- What music expresses, a sort of autobiography of the composer, by analyzing the readings and authors that have marked his creative series, as well as the musical and sonorous resources that have brought about his reflections on the categories of subject, history, nation and identity, while establishing a dialogue with ethic and politic positions.
“Los sonidos posibles” comes out of the sum of all these ways to listen to, watch and say; as one of the activities carried out by Fundacion Museos de Quito and Fundacion Teatro Nacional Sucre to pay tribute to the artistic career of composer Mesias Maiguashca.
