V/A Expanding Concert (Lisboa 2019-2023)

Label / EGEAC
Category / Experimental, Sound Art, Records by Artists, Made in Portugal
Code / No Code

2 LP, gatefold with 32 pages booklet Release date: 12th May 2024 Expanding Concert (Lisbon 2019-2023) has been a durational concert attempting to think itself historically while it was happening. It was a five-year-long concert distributed in time and space through different media: five public interventions in five different spaces belonging to Galerias Municipais in Lisbon, and five texts published in the Galerias Municipais online journal that are reproduced here. This record is a documentation of this long concert. Expanding Concert explored the notion of call and response in improvisation in an expanded form: each public intervention was a form of call. For each intervention, a writer was invited to attend and respond with a text written in the following months. The writers' responses were attempts to contextualise each intervention in relation to the artistic, political, and economic situation of Lisbon at the time. The responses were also influenced by the fact that the writers had been taking into consideration some of the most determining global events of the last years such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement, inflation, and the war in Ukraine. Each public intervention worked as a proposition to explore self-perception at a specific time and place through performer-audience interaction. This record consists of audio excerpts and video stills from the interventions as well as the writers' responses written after the events. These components were conceived in different temporalities but are all equal parts of the concert. The term 'expanding' has been taken literally here: in the first intervention Mattin was alone, but as soon as he began, the situation started to expand by his interaction with the audience. For the following interventions, a different musician joined Mattin each year: Margarida Garcia in 2020, DJ Marfox in 2021, Vuduvum Vadava in 2022, and Joao Artur in 2023. History is always retrospectively considered. The tools that we have at our disposal to be able to understand what came before are tainted by the present. The composer Walter Marchetti famously said: 'If you are thinking about music, it is already music: Here we go a step further: if you think, it is already music. With this simple axiom, this project attempts to break any distinction between making music, its socio-political context and our reflections about it. Playing a concert in the 'Noise Age' there is a disintegration of consensus reality, and post-truth and the disenchantment of technologies are prevalent, means that we need to use any means at our disposal to deal with the social noise that we are involved in. A record is always a filtered condensation of the contradictions of a historical epoch, and it contains more than we can decipher. This record is like a message in a bottle for people to make sense of our senseless reality and hopefully to change it. Track Listing: A 1) 2019 Galeria da Boavista Mattin & The Audience 4’ text response by Bárbara Silva 2) 2020 Pavilhão Branco Margarida Garcia, Mattin & The Audience 8’ text response by Regina de Morais B 2021 Galeria Avenida da Índia DJ Marfox, Margarida Garcia, Mattin & The Audience 12’ text response by Pierre Bal-Blanc C 2022 Galeria Quadrum Vuduvum Vadavã, DJ Marfox, Margarida Garcia, Mattin & The Audience 16’ text response by Dasha Birukova D 2023 Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional João Artur,Vuduvum Vadavã, DJ Marfox, Margarida Garcia, Mattin & The Audience 20’ text response by Nuno da Luz

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