Y Si
‘Y Si’ is a 45-minute living project between movement, music, and projected media, observing diasporic traditions that refract off of shared histories of displacement as they saturate into a broad spectrum of joy, creativity, and futurity. The piece unfolds through synchronicity, rupture, and transformation. ‘Y Si’ is an offering that invites audiences to relate with one another’s stories, reminding us that we are closer than we think.
Project leads: Julián Pujols Quall & Mario A. Ollincoyotl Ramírez
Musical Accompaniment: Julián Pujols Quall
Dancers and Movement Generators: Mario A.O Ramirez, Azteca Sirias, Valondria Lavender. Sarah Méndez, José Domínguez, Adrián José Flores
Costume Curation: Sarah Elizabeth Mendez
Visual Media: Azteca Sirias
Film Direction:Adrián José Flores
SOUNDMAP ENSEMBLE
Traversing boundaries of musical practices, SoundMap Ensemble present a “carte blanche” of the composer Januibe Tejera, where the ensemble explores the terrain of music and technology. The program includes instrumental music, video, electronic sound, and deep listening. Here, gesture, space, and video blend into musical practices and demonstrate how musicians are continuously traversing all borders as they transform imagination into reality. Mixing landmark works with bold new pieces by emerging local composers, SoundMap gives echo of Januibe Tejera’s vision, presenting what we believe are crafting the masterpieces of tomorrow, and integrating a new generation of composers. Each work challenges boundaries or presents new practices, and tries to present an encounter where the past and future could be together, in the same present moment.
Program:
Januibe Tejera - Tablado Ouverture (2019) - Video And Electronics
Januibe Tejera - Other Hypotheses To The End Of Jacques Le Fataliste (2011) - Cello And Real-Time Electronics
Januibe Tejera - Tremble (2015) - Solo Accordion (Amplified)
Deniz Aslan - Heavyweight: No Man’s Land (2022) - Multi-Channel Diffusion
Pierre Jodlowky - Time And Money (2003) - Percussion, Video And Real-Time Electronics
Mojgan Misaghi - An Ancient Pond (2024) (Link) - Flute Amplified
Ensemble: Anabel McDonald (Flute) Luciano Medina (Percussion) Matt Armbruster (Cello) Theo Ould (Accordion) Deniz Aslan (Electronics and video) Januibe Tejera (Electronics)
Collaboration: Tambores del Pueblo (Austin/PR) & El Drip Cuts (Austin/El Paso)
*Tambores Del Pueblo is a community music ensemble that focuses on wellness through music and dance. The facilitators share education and instruction of Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba to the community for wellness, cultural diversity, and preservation of history and oral traditions.
Karolina Arocho (singer, dancer and facilitator) Adam Rosario (lead percussionist and facilitator) Leo Vasquez (Percussionist); Betty Lopez (Singer & Dancer), Wilma Miranda (Dancer)
* El Drip Cuts is an Austin-based experimental video artist and track selector. Their work incorporates digital projections and recorded video media using technicolor digital waveforms, simultaneously embodying natural forms and the abstract.