sábado, 30 de agosto de 2014

Los Cielos Infinitos by Nicolás Testoni (video) and María Cristina Kasem (music)

Los Cielos Infinitos (Infinite Skies)

Audiovisual work by and Nicolás Testoni (video) and María Cristina Kasem (music) - 2014

Along with "Las aguas abismales" (2008) and "Pacha Mama" (2011), the work of music and video"Los cielos infinitos" is part of the triptych "Vuelo Iniciático". Musically, it evokes the initiation of the sorcerers in the Toba Theogony- the Toba are an ethnic group living mainly in what is now North-Central Argentina. "Los Cielos Infinitos" bears the attributes of a prayer in which the voice of a sorceress is accompanied with indigenous drums and flutes. These ancestral sounds cross and in turn are crossed by images intervened from Jorge Sanjines' film "Revolution" (Bolivia, 1964) which alludes to the conflicts that the indigenous peoples of our continent had to face after the European colonial expansion and the subsequent creation of the American national states.



lunes, 21 de julio de 2014

Concert in Argentina, performance of "Pacha Mama". 12.06.2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJndNdls9y4
Composition: María Cristina Kasem
Performance: Paco Redondo, María Cristina Kasem
Recording Voice: Pierre Denjean, María Cristina Kasem

miércoles, 23 de octubre de 2013

La musique de Cristina



« […] Tout d’un coup, en un instant, plus rien existe. Plus de salle. Plus de public. Plus rien que la seule présence du son […]. Je ne suis pas seul. C’est un dialogue qui m’a ravi aux conditions extérieures de l’existence. Qu’est devenue la salle ? Elle n’existe plus pour moi, car tout ce qui est matériel a fui. Et la perception visuelle des exécutants, la sensation auditive des instruments se sont muées par une transfiguration radicale, en un sentiment qui me transporte au-dessus de moi-même : l’extase. »