Exchange Talk: Oscar Edelstein - The Musical Imagination: Between Rivers and Crystals

A poetic journey through the principal ideas that founded the award-winning research program Teatro Acústico (Acoustic Theatre), at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Argentina). Founder Oscar Edelstein will talk about developments and inventions on the program, from reflections in front of the Paraná River, to the creation of music-theatre performances that work with concepts of spatial modulation and acoustic perspective.

The term Perspective proposes the recovery of the idea that integrates the mathematical representation of space, applying it to the field of acoustics and musical art. The choosing of a concept whose origins are in the Renaissance is not naive, since it alludes to a historical moment in which artistic and scientific disciplines were not as dissociated as they are today. Oscar will be joined by collaborator Deborah Claire Procter who will assist with any questions that come up in translation.

Composer, pianist and researcher, Oscar Edelstein (Argentina) – known for his originality and inventiveness – is frequently considered as leading, from Latin America, the avant-garde of music. He has received many commissions for modern operas and non-conventional symphonic works from Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Argentina, London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Swedish percussion group Kroumata and Basel Sinfonietta, among many others. His performances with his group, Ensamble Nacional del Sur (ENS) have been considered by specialist critics as “a historic milestone in the cutting-edge production of Latin America.” His catalogued and published work is crucial to the map of contemporary Latin American music and performance.

Deborah Claire Procter is a singer and multimedia artist from Cardiff (with a degree in theatre at the University of Exeter and a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Wales, Cardiff). She has worked with Oscar Edelstein for many years. Oscar Edelstein will be performing with Deborah Claire Procter on tour throughout April and May:

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