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Fito Conesa, in crescendo

La narrativa me ofusca, las palabras me acotan, escribe Fito Conesa. La música, por su parte, ofrece cadencias insospechadas, tonos e intensidades interiores que pueden ser moduladas por solapamientos poco convencionales entre imagen y sonido, entre presente y pasado, presencias y ausencias.

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Waiting time/ Wasting time 2009

Conesa ha dado forma musical o de composición instrumental a batallas navales (Fantasía y fuga para Tsushima 2015), amaneceres suburbiales (Ouverture 2011), al rutinario subir y bajar de un ascensor (Música de cámara 2008), a los tiempos de espera (Waiting time, Wasting time 2009)…

Ha usado la música para acercar largas distancias, corporeizar espectros, hilar la intrahistoria con grandes eventos… Recuerdos o meras sensaciones del artista subyacen a un sistema de notación que cada uno interpretará a su modo.

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Non unisono. 2017

Lirismo, simplicidad e ironía siempre han sido las mejores bazas de Conesa. El coro de voces masculinas que conforman Non Unisono (uno de los proyectos premiados en Generaciones 2017, Fundación Montemadrid) acusan los cambios tonales, los gallitos incontrolables, típicos de la pubertad.

La adolescencia adquiere gran variedad de tesituras, tantas como individuos pasan por ella, y esta pieza parece rendir homenaje a la esencia irreducible de las edades en tránsito.

El recurso de la coral ya lo había usado unos años atrás en una video-instalación con doble pantalla (Un, out, less 2013), en la que los movimientos semiconscientes de una pareja en duermevela eran acompañados por las voces de un coro infantil, cuyos sonidos funcionaban casi como onomatopeias de las oleadas de placer, miedo y ternura que se suceden entre las sábanas.

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One, out, less 2013

Y es que Conesa se detiene a menudo en los preliminares del amor o en las coreografías del deseo, sin mediar palabras o dejándolas en sordina. Silenciadas al interponer un grueso cristal, como en Sado (2010), donde la doble acepción (oriental y occidental) del término nos adentra en una ceremonia del te punteada de tensión. O en The bigger, the better (2016), donde recupera un escena de la peli homónima del cine porno para centrarse en los preámbulos de la conquista sexual. En uno y otro caso practica cortocircuitos lingüísticos y formales: del zen a Sade, y del cine porno a la nouvelle vague.

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The bigger, the better 2016 (incluido en la coleectiva “Solo es Sexo”, Fernando Pradilla)

Su último vals (My last waltz, 2017) lo ha bailado con Félix González-Torres, al compás de unas notas que aún siendo profanos en solfeo imaginamos cargadas de emoción, pues adaptan las bellas palabras con las que el artista cubano sintetizaba a modo de epitafio artístico su anhelo de despertar empatía: sobre todo se trataba de dejar una marca de que  existí: yo estuve allí, estuve hambriento, estuve triste, fui derrotado, estuve enamorado. tuve miedo, tuve esperanza.

La disposición fragmentaria de los pentagramas, como de puzzle, nos impele a recomponer las teselas en nuestro fuero interno, a musicalizar según nuestro background personal la sublime sencillez de aquel statement capaz de sepultarse (en clave de vals) en en la noche de los sentimientos compartidos sobre el arte, la creación, la necesidad de dejar huella, el amor y la pérdida.

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My last waltz, ARCO 2017 Foto Nacho Lopez Ortiz

Pero es en su proyecto más reciente, que ahora presenta en Espai Tactel, donde culminan intereses que han ido jaspeando su obra: Train Phase, la armonía estática que dedica a Steve Reich. En ella teje con hilo sonoro densas urdimbres entre datos estadísticos y hormigueo interurbano, recuerdo y pensamiento, biografía y micropolítica, viaje e introspección.

Comparte con el músico minimalista y su Different Trains la voluntad de experimentar con el trasvase de pequeñas historias a melodías, de entramar voces y ecos, tiempos y espacios, de extraer preciosas gemas practicando arqueología sonoro.

La grabación de las piezas en vinilo añade otra capa de valor, sedimentándose lo etéreo en un soporte icónico, cofrecillo de memorabilia transpersonal.

Anna Adell

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Train Phase 2017

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Exposición en curso: Train Phase, Armonía estática para Steve Reich

en Espai Tactel, Valencia

De 10-03-2017 a  28-04-2017

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fito conesa - waltz - le bastart

Fito Conesa, in crescendo

The narrative obfuscate me, the words confine me, writes Fito Conesa. Music, on the other hand, offers unsuspected cadences, tones and interior intensities that can be modulated by unconventional overlaps between image and sound, between present and past, presences and absences.

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Waiting time/ Wasting time 2009

Conesa has given musical form or of instrumental composition to naval battles (Fantasy and fugue for Tsushima 2015), to suburban sunrises (Ouverture 2011), to the routine going up and down of an elevator (Chamber music 2008), to the waiting times (Waiting time, Wasting time 2009)…

He uses music to attach long distances, embody spectra, to thread intrahistory with major events … Memories or mere sensations of the artist underlie as a system of notation that each performer will perform as best suits him or her.

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Non unisono. 2017

Lyricism, simplicity and irony have always been the best assets of Conesa. The chorus of male voices that conform Non Unisono (one of the projects awarded in Generationes 2017, Fundación Montemadrid) accuse the tonal changes, the uncontrollable “out of tune” typical of puberty.

Adolescence acquires great variety of tessituras, as many as individuals pass through it, and this piece seems to pay homage to the irreducible essence of the ages in transit.

Non unisono reminds us of another video-installation with a double screen that he realized a few years before, Un, out, less (2013) , in which the semiconscious movements of a couple falling into a light sleep were accompanied by the voices of a children’s choir, whose sounds functioned almost like onomatopoeias of the waves of pleasure, fear and tenderness that happen between the sheets.

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One, out, less 2013

In fact, Conesa often takes delight in the preliminaries of love or in the desire’s choreographies, without mediating words or leaving them in mute. Silenced by the interposition of a thick crystal, as in Sado (2010), where the double meaning (eastern and western) of the term leads us into a ceremony of thee filled with tension. Or in The bigger the better (2016), where he recovers a scene from the homonymous movie of porn cinema to focus on the preambles of a sexual conquest. In both cases he practices linguistic and formal switchs: from Zen to Sade, and from porno to nouvelle vague.

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The bigger, the better 2016 (included in Solo es Sexo exhibition, Fernando Pradilla Gallery)

He has danced his last waltz with Felix González-Torres, to the compass of some notes that even if we know nothing about reading musical scores we imagine emotionally charged, because they adapt the beautiful words with which the Cuban artist synthesized as artistic epitaph his desire to arouse empathy: above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful.

The fragmentary arrangement of the musical stave, as a puzzle, impels us to recompose the tesserae in our inner self, to musicalize according to our personal background the sublime simplicity of that statement able to be buried (in waltz tempo) in the bottom of shared feelings about art, creation, the need to leave a mark, love and loss.

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My last waltz, ARCO 2017 Foto Nacho Lopez Ortiz

But is in his most recent project, which now will be presented in Espai Tactel, where culminate some interests that has been reiterating in his work: “Train Phase”, the static harmony that he dedicates to Steve Reich. In this piece he weaves with sonic thread dense warps between statistical data and intercity transit, memory and thought, biography and micropolitics, travel and introspection.

He shares with the minimalist musician and his “Different Trains” the will to experiment with the translation of small stories to melodies, to mix voices and echoes, times and spaces, to extract precious gems practicing sound archeology.

The recording of the pieces on vinyl adds another layer of value, sedimenting the ethereal in an iconic support, chest of transpersonal memorabilia.

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Train Phase 2017

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Current exhibition: “Train Phase, Armonía estática para Steve Reich”

in Espai Tactel, Valencia

From 10-03-2017 to  28-04-2017

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