Y ellos entendieron 2011. With music by Leopoldo Amigo. Fiberglass, nylon, and fabric. 60 pieces, each approximately 1.8 m long. Total dimensions vary.
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Quilts. Music for Monique Bastiaans
A last refuge of the spirit in a materialistic world.
We live in a society where art, in all its manifestations, is besieged, harassed and suffocated by the culture of fast food, music, art, cinema etc. of rapid consumption, without effort, without participation, without us having to think (think what a painful exercise) everything easy without doing our part, so as not to have to exercise and flow through us without leaving a trace or mark, so that we become mere spectators of life and experiences. They do not want us to fly and reason, only to consume and produce, once every x time we vote for them.
Quilts, and the installation by Monique Bastiaans. It proposes the exact opposite: to fly, to think, to reason, to explore your mind, in short, to dream and grow within yourself, to achieve elevated states of spiritual consciousness (not religious, of course) and beyond the daily sordidity that today's world imposes on us.
The opportunity to create a musical work to be exhibited at the Vostell Museum in Malpartida was a real challenge, given that Wolf Vostell was one of the pioneers of contemporary art, father of Happening and initiator of the Fluxus movement, and above all, for his thinking in the sound field that revolved around the interrelation of different sound sources that generated beats, creating a poetic timbre and a whole space for the reflection of acoustic perception, and therefore the concept itself of musical experience.
With these approaches in mind, and using as a starting material the interrelation of sound materials based on their timbric-tonal proximity, I set to work, taking into account the most important factor, the creative philosophy and the plastic solutions that Monique had decided on for it.
With these approaches, I developed different materials that I subsequently processed through different systems of proliferation, dynamic manipulation, pitch and timbre, to finally confront the mixture of all the materials, their temporal and spatial location.
The work is a kind of reflection on the wide and strict space that travels from within since its own conception, and of the different interrelations that are generated when facing and interacting with the different materials when located in the physical space and in the timbral space that the sum of elements generates. Everything is obvious, yet subtle, demanding from the listener an attentive, patient and calm listening, as well as repeated, in order to capture and enjoy the nuances that the different interrelations create, together with the physical space that contains it and Monique's magnificent work make these interrelations occur on a wide variety of levels of perception, creating a perfect conjunction between the plastic, the sonorous and the material, offering an initiatory experience to a dream world more exciting and generous than the coarse and vulgar world in which capitalism and consumerism have us imprisoned.
As Friedrich Nietzsche said, Freedom can only be found in Art.
Leopold Friend