Formas de Interpretar el Viento

Breath is a sound performance that uses an experimental electronic bandoneon built and designed by Javier Bustos specifically for this work. Breath recovers the performative gesture of the original bandoneon to develop a completely different sonic and musical language. The bandoneon’s bellows transform and manipulate samples and synthesizers specially programmed for the work. In this way, the flow of air modifies the sound and the light onstage through the movement of the body and the instrument’s breathing. The gesture of the instrument’s constant breathing introduces an organic sense of time into the sonic experience. At the same time, it affects the audience’s breathing rhythm, proposing a bodily response from the audience. The performance of the experimental bandoneon produces a luminous experience. The airmoving through the bellows not only gives body to the instrument’s sound, but also  alters the lighting specifically designed for the work. The bandoneon is a musical instrument of German origin that was reinterpreted in Argentina through the tradition of tango. In Breath, the bandoneon becomes the reinterpretation of a reinterpretation. It draws from tradition the gesture and visual presence of this distinctive instrument in order to develop its own musical language.