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Asier Mendizabal

Signals, calls and marches (lo que la música militar a la música), 2006

Signals, calls and marches (lo que la música militar a la música)

ASIER MENDIZABAL
Ordizia, Guipúzcoa, Spain, 1973
Received the Fundación Botín Art Grant in 2005

Signals, Calls and Marches (Señales, llamadas y marchas), 2006
Sound, mono, 19:05 min.
Gift of the artist, 2025

In this sound piece, the drummer, Unai de la Iglesia, plays a series of rolls on the snare drum that progress in improvisations, evoking industrial noises to become more complex in familiar rhythmic patterns. Asier wrote an essay that links the form of national anthems, military music, punk and the avant-garde jazz of Albert Ayler and asked the musician to interpret it, resulting in evocations of festive music or military marches that intertwine in the work.

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Asier Mendizabal

Guipúzcoa, 1973

Las relaciones entre forma, discurso e ideología, así como las conexiones que éstas establecen con la representación de lo colectivo, y las potencialidades de la abstracción para la eficacia política configuran el eje de la práctica artística de Mendizábal.

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