March 2011

CULTURE OF MEMORY HOUSE OF CULTURES
Tuesday 22 to 21 hours.
And the wind keeps blowing
MEMORY HOUSE
Friday 18 to 21 hours. Ricardo Longhini pirquineros

cultural agenda in the Chaco, March was consecrated
Month Report. So artists were summoned three projection icons
Argentine international join in the project of the House of Cultures, the work
the Bicentennial, and the House of Memory, epic reservoir of militants.
Saturday 19 in the House of Memory, opens pirquineros
Ricardo Longhini. That nickname is not capricious, but defines the author's work: "He
working without method or resource." Thus, the powerful sculptural work of artist
becomes "a tribute to those anonymous men worldwide
worked and work with their hands, as well as native peoples
the martyrs of Bethlehem and that Margarita fighting for justice ...".
On Tuesday 22, in his new headquarters of the House of World Cultures as
opening of its cultural agenda 2011, the Museum of Fine Arts "René Brusau"
(MUBA) proposed two artists with more than half a century of experience in the art
Argentina: León Ferrari Juan Carlos Romero, united in the sample and
the wind keeps blowing.
The proposal consists of paintings, objects, collages, assemblages and photographs. Ferrari joins
but seemingly disparate pieces together are a strong
questioning the role of men in history, Romero is an experimenter
that mixes politics and poetics with a production as large as consisting
.
In short, is a joint question witnesses, and the great injustices of the world and claimed
human rights.
deconstruct the three codes and standards to build new forms of expression, all
carry traces of their environment, never isolated, because their projects
become projectiles that explode in Argentina actually setting a personal testimony and creative at every outrage
of the powerful in power.
concerns become troubled world works, timeless icons.
A proposal that combines classical and contemporary art and politics;
works despite the years are still valid, continue to question,
continue to open roads.
MEMORY FOUNDATION
La Casa de la Memoria, as known to the central mansion that houses the Provincial Commission for Memory
and Single Record of Truth, which began operations on December 11, 2006, after the enactment of
Act No. 5582, 2005, is now an area for reflection and learning about
of state terrorism and the observance of human rights.
But during the civil-military dictatorship in his jaws worked the largest clandestine detention center
the Northeast. For crimes against humanity committed against political activists in the late seventies
in 2010 were convicted of genocide twelve a common and effective jail.
in those offices that were used to sow terror, now set up a library, educational exhibitions,
files of state terrorism and rooms for exhibitions. León Ferrari
Juan Carlos Romero
ART AND MEMORY
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RESISTANCE OF ART MUSIC> Lullaby, a CD and a very special project in Azulunala

A "dream team" to fulfill dreams of children and great

Luis Alberto Spinetta, Ricardo Mollo, Fito Paez and Litto Nebbia, among many others, put music lyrics written by kids homes, juvenile institutions or on the street, who attend the workshops de la Casa de la Cultura de la Calle.

By Karina Micheletto

Fito Páez

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Ricardo Mollo.
Pedro Aznar.

Lullabies written by children who might not have had these songs when searching for the dream. Lullabies musicalized by people coming from rock, pop, the "big music", and never had to compose a lullaby. O yes, but for their children, in search of sleep daily, perhaps for many, many years. Now these sound like lullabies for children and large on a disc that shines for several reasons. Is your content clear: they are special nannies, ranging from the intimacy of a voice with a piano or a guitar strongest rock and roll. They are sometimes harsh lyrics, written by the folks homes, juvenile institutions or on the street, who attend the workshops of the Casa de la Cultura de la Calle (see separate article). To support these workshops will return the money raised by selling the CD, and also this project has a particular bias.

names who recorded these songs cradle a selected form that seems difficult to meet in another context: they made this album Luis Alberto Spinetta, Ricardo Mollo, Fito Páez, Pedro Aznar, Daffunchio Germain, Fernando Cabrera, Hilda Lizarazu, Litto Nebbia , Kevin Johansen, Lisandro Aristimuño, Damien

Rice, Luka Bloom, Aloras Gonzalo, Miguel Cantilo Fattoruso Hugo and Vitor Ramil. They all received a letter written by the guys in the workshops and got to work with a slogan: they proposed that wrote and performed a song thinking about how they sing the lyrics to their children. "Something simple, small, a lullaby," he said. Collected these little mothers, have assembled a large disk.

"What a dream team that joined!" Says Nicolas Pauls said he was armed when the model of the CD. He was commissioned the production of this album that took a year and a half of work. "Of course it's a dream team recontra. But it could have been different with other people, and had been a dream team. Because what matters is the human quality that were added: When we tell them about the project, everyone, absolutely everyone said yes immediately, without hesitation, no buts, "says Pauls. "They put all their enthusiasm and more than we ask: Luis Alberto offered his studio to be recording other musicians, for example. I can not thank you finish this kind of gestures. "The actor and musician and is excited about a sequel Lullabies for-profit organization that created his brother Gaston, with artists who could not this time be on agenda issues. But first comes the presentation of this record, the realization of a video that is already underway and, above all, encounters like that was pending between Ricardo Mollo and Nayeli aZ, the girl who wrote the words to "I cried so much" The theme he composed Mollo.

"Gaston thought how would be the nights of those guys who are part of the workshops of the Casa de la Cultura. And in what would have been those nights when you were younger. I thought maybe some have never sung a lullaby. Thus was born the factory where he worked on this issue with the boys: they proposed to write what they would like to sing when they were younger, or what they were going to sing to their children at some point in life. Hence, points out, "says Pauls. "We made a list of musicians who were wanted on the record and were those with whom we compatible agendas. We send the letters to choose what they wanted to work with, and Thereafter, the receipt and delivery were all wonderful. What gave was his love, so it was so cute. "Nanas

Street

" I do not cry so much that he goes to sleep, softly cradles the letter that opens the disc, with Mollo and his guitar. Aznar also sings and whispers: "Sleep my little boy, who goes to sleep", and opens a beautiful lullaby to his piano. The letter was written by Lucas Bustamante, 9. Spinetta sings a lullaby that seems made for him, "Morning Awakening", and since the title and the author of the poetic lyrics, Luciano Nieto, 22, appears to be connected with who would put music to his song. Paez sings "Look," the Uruguayan Fernando Cabrera puts his mark on the letter Mizrahi Claudio Molina, 18, "Your tantrums worry me but I say they're growing." "If I give you a sweet sleep and I love you, "he repeats with emphasis portuñol Vitor Ramil, lullabies that brings in a circular rhythm of the night, the rhythm of the round that appears to cradle the child, as coming from the depths of time. It is magical: the scent of that time back as a click on some of these lullabies.

There are also songs done in English, which were entrusted to the Irish Damien Rice, Luka Bloom. Written by children living on the street or in institutions for children, in other letters hit the reality of their authors. "I want to know why I left in your life, why did you leave me alone," Emanuel wrote, for example, of 16 years, "Mom dear. " That was the letter you chose Daffunchio Germain, his sons and his nephew to compose the theme that closes the disc.

"Y. .. I do not think we can be passed as a lullaby at all ... Can bring nightmares! "Laughs Daffunchio in dialogue with Pagina/12. "My children and I received several letters, and obviously ... that we liked was the one that was more sustained. The challenge was to convey that point. "The leader of the balls worked with children of 19 and 22, and recording with his nephew, 19, who proudly boasts he is studying sound in London. "Collaborating with a project to help others is always rewarding, "says the musician. "But in this case was doubly rewarding because it allowed me to work with my kids and my nephew, and I'm very happy with the final result. My kids play from little ones, have incorporated music as part of his life. We played together many times, but always home. So this was a professional challenge, and the banks very well. Moreover, they did everything, music, production, recording, everything. I just sang and incentives. So the most exciting thing was this: to share the music, creating, with the boys. "

" They were worried because we knew that ours was a rather dense topic. Well, we had requested a lullaby ... But when I heard the album I saw was good at the end, everyone involved got the best of each, the rest depends on who buys or hear the music, "says Daffunchio. "The important thing is that this project has been able to get ahead, that the people of House of Culture to raise to continue working in order that we may have served some purpose. Everything else is anecdotal. "Lisandro Aristimuño

also chose a strong point for creating music. He says he did, in principle, by the music found in this letter, but also by what he found as reflected in the letter of Claudius, 16. "I'm always attentive to the music of words, phrases, formatting, and just read the letter of Claudius I found music. But I also liked the idea that lullabies can not have a happy ending, and in the end, this song is about abandonment, "he says. "It was real, and as many street kids will have to sleep alone because their parents have to go to work, I happen to be my parents were going to laburar, theater, and I slept with a lullaby. I liked that poetry was not something imagined, he made real, and I thought it had to be strong and courageous person who made it. "

Aristimuño

Claudio did not know when musicalized your letter, but found it a listening to the album. "We hugged, with the thrill of having made a song together. It was nice to hug someone you do not know, but who created something that will stay. That experience for me will remain forever. "Nanas

to jump rope

piano Fattoruso proposes to" Meeting with God "who wrote Karina Martinez, 16. From Montevideo Página/12 account that was "rhythmic cadence" that found in that letter that drew him to choose it. "Nicholas (Pauls) sent me several letters, I was reading one another, and my eyes stopped on this for the rhythmic cadence that I had, I thought I'd feel more comfortable when playing music. Of course they are letters from children, do not I have been looking cadences with a magnifying glass. But when my eyes found that rhyme I said yes, this is for me. "

" It is a laudable project, designed to help an industry that is struggling. How could I say no to an invitation of this kind? Here I have no need to consider anything, and I'll invite me, and as I was invited to play in other discs that are sold by people who have home with pool and driver, this is a small contribution to nor rejected crazy, "muses Fattoruso. "I have four children and as I can imagine several lullabies sung in my life. A lullaby is one way to be sung, and is love: love is higher, to parents and children, which is in the middle is what one is. So any manifestation of this kind is accompanied by the highest dose of love that has one available. "The pianist also has not thought about his own children when he wrote this song, but the guys who wrote the letters. Those who could be on the street while he did his music.

very cortito was a verse that fired the nanny that Kevin Johansen sings, "Sleep for the next day, skip the rope. Also for quiet play. " This was written by Selena, 9, and returned song is a lullaby circular, or rather, jumped on the rope, slowly, in a long afternoon recess. "When I told Nico Pauls proposal seemed very good idea for children to write letters, and as I write is a bit complicated bills of others, out of habit (I compose in another way, so general all together), the exercise was cute too, "says the songwriter. "I was a music that I thought it had some lullaby, I developed and I chose a short piece, just a few sentences. I found it interesting to combine a good point and a music cortita somewhat complex and entangled in this counterpoint, playing with the metric. "

Johansen says it already has this practice of writing songs that children and their 13, 7 and 3 years have been recipients of his themes: "The Circle", for example, inspired by the awakening of his eldest daughter, or "swing", he thought for the 7, or "My name is danger", even unpublished, which makes one wonder what comes with the 3. Litto Nebbia

addresses "the growing", a beautiful text that Gastón Martínez, 15, speaks to a younger child with a poem that moves by its forcefulness. The musician explains his work on this disc: "I chose one of the letters that the boys had sent and to touch the musicalicé. When my daughter Miranda was a kid, I've had this experience, scoring little letters to her fellow third grade. A project promoting encouraging them to write a song. "Nanas

to ask for time

" We need time, at least a year and a half, " Nicolás Pauls has requested that when he commissioned this production, and that was the time they were taken. Mind that still surprised by the subsequent appreciation of the musicians who joined. Notes that when they finished mastering the record, organized in the studio listening Circo Beat, the authors of the letters and some of the artists who participated. "It was a moment I can not explain, exciting everywhere. The boys did not know until then what was left of his texts to music, and who did it. Ricardo Mollo was very sad because that day could not go, and Nayeli, the girl who made the point that he made, is absolutely fanatical Ricardo, was an outstanding meeting. "

So the project still need time, what remains to grow. In games like that in a future presentation in a repeat, if sales are good through the supermarket chain which agreed to their distribution (see separate article). Many of the letters written by the guys for this album speak of time to grow. As Gaston Martinez, who refers to "the growing": "Sometimes when you learn you're wrong, and sometimes your wounds make you stronger. Sometimes you do not have to be so brave and sometimes the coward who learns ... Deserve applause for be patient and deserve more time to become a man ... Because you're a child, my child, a boy no more. And that's what you should be. And that is what you should be. "

The child must be self

By Luis Alberto Spinetta

In the world we live in, from the time a child does not have the hug and the cooing of his mother, we are all part of a tragic episode in which we suffer our own neglect. It is a scene change. Although we had a beautiful mother and protector, we refuse to believe that the world should be, and react to try to rebuild the ties that are the source of growth. Being abandoned by the mother is to be returned to the world differently, that of silence.

A lullaby is a meeting between the skin and air. Is the touch of an angel in the midst of the madness of the times, which gives us peace as the fundamental channel's awareness and sensitivity.

From then on, sing a lullaby mother is an act we put on the skin that protects and is protected and can not do enough to do so. The child must be yourself.

And from that same image of beautiful heartbeat shared, you can fly a little and think we're also rocking the world.

Thanks for making me part of it.