Spain: GAUR! 50TH ANNIVERSARY ENCUENTROS DE PAMPLONA

XENAKIS AT THE PAMPLONA MEETINGS 1972 XAS FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET

In the final years of the dictatorship in Spain, in the summer of 1972, and for eight days (26 June/3 July 1972), the “Encuentros de Pamplona” took place, the largest and most significant international avant-garde festival held in Spain, with Luis de Pablo (composer) and José Luis Alexanco (visual artist) as its intellectual leaders.
Xenakis’s music was presented at the Hotel de los Tres Reyes in Pamplona, as part of the exhibition “Automatic generation of plastic and sound forms”, curated by the director of the Centro de Cálculo de Madrid, Ernesto García Camarero.

For the August 24, 2022 event:
interpreters

Andrés Gomis, Ángel Soria, Alberto Chaves, Josetxo Silguero,
Manu Gaigne saxophones , interludes and soundscapes
Francisco Javier Larreina, scenic space

With the special collaboration of the plastic artist César Barrio.

Program

“Gaur!! 50th Anniversary of the Pamplona Meetings”
John Cage (1912-1992)
Four5 (1991)

Gabriel Erkoreka (1969)
Swirls (2018)

Helga Arias (1984)
Milk spilled on a stone (2017)

Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) Xenakis Xas Centenary Celebration
(1987)

Núria Giménez Comas (1980)
Clairobscur * (2022)

Luis de Pablo (1930-2021)
LDP (2021)

* Absolute premiere. Work commissioned by SIGMA Project-INAEM.