Award winning cuban musician Alejandro Vargas + Galician award winning writer and performer Xelís de Toro will be working in residence here for a week to explore music, performance and poetry experimentation. The show on Saturday will be some of their work in progress with invite guests. Guests TBA.
Alejandro Vargas is multi-awarded Cuban musician resident in Galicia (Spain), receiving important jazz (Best Jazz record Cubadisco, 2008) and composition (Special award Cubadisco 2013) awards and has been journeying in recent years to a more experimental sound work. https://alejandrovargas.info/
Xelís de Toro is a Galician multi-awarded writer and performer based in the UK. He has worked in theatre, live art, performance as a solo artist, in a duo laboratoro and is the vocalist of the Brighton based band chopchop. https://xelisdetoro.net/
Alejandro Vargas and Xelís de Toro through music, sound poetry and movement exploration will be engaging with an iconic and enigmatic Galician poetry book published in the 1920s which feels as a meditation during a sea journey. They converted all the letters of the poems into numbers and then the numbers into musical notes. Taking the collection of words-poems and musical notes as a starting point, and by using chance and improvisation they will be creating their own acrobatic journey, crisscrossing arts to weave a tapestry of sounds (piano, synth, percussion), vocals (sounds and words) and movement.