:: Selected News ::
NABÔKÔ
NABÔKÔ is new audiovisual building toy created and designed by BCA.
NABÔKÔ is an inclusive, intuitive and open-ended building toy made of 24 non-geometrical figures that represent each a musical note. Everybody can enjoy the liberty of free imagination by creating a sculpture and composing a sound inside this new universe where there is no right or wrong, but only free improvisation to create and hear your own figures.
Plastic Extension of Music - Workshop 23-24
In November 2023, an open workshop for musicians conceived by BCA started with the aim of creating a Plastic Extension of Music. The workshop included conferences, an Object-Based-Learning visit at Skissernas Museum and several meetings and reunions to discuss the projects and methodologies of the participants.
In the 2 of May, the exhibition at Inter Arts Center (IAC) will open with the Plastic Extensions created by musicians from Skåne during the workshop, including a live performance on 4 May with the pieces that are the source of the Plastic Extensions.
Works by of: Hanna Komorowska – performing and extending George Crumb’s "Tora! Tora! Tora!", Rebell Gitarrkvartett + Lisa Holström & Petra Nilsson – performing and extending Alice Kint’s "Havet" and Sofia Vecchiato – performing and extending Eugène Bozza’s "Caprice nº3"
Director: Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete
[3 November 2023-5 May 2024]
Workshop for the blind and the visually impaired
BCA with Jan Eric Olsen and Gonçalo Duarte will lead the second workshop for the blind and visually impaired in February at Inter Arts Center (Malmo, Sweden) as part of the research in "Plastic Extension of Music".
[7-13th February 2024]
New video "Estudio de Contrapunto II" by Samuel Cedillo
New video of Estudio de Contrapunto II for two performers and one guitar with Iván Adriano on the project Sal de Gusano.
[20th December 2023]
Presentation at UNIARTS, Helsinki
Presentation of Plastic Extension of Music at the "Gestures and Languages: Innovative Approaches to Artistic Thinking and Pedagogy" at UNIARTS, Helsinki.
[16th November 2023]
Sal de gusano - Mexican music for two guitarists
Mexican music for two guitarists, a new project with Mexican guitarist Iván Adriano at Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden.
Program:
Escolopendra : Forcípulas I (World Premiere) by Abraham Ortíz
performance for two musicians
Feldlinien by Andrés Nuño de Buen
guitar solo
Monólogo IV by Samuel Cedillo
guitar solo
Haruspex (World Premiere) by Alan Manríquez
two performers on one guitar
Estudio de contrapunto II by Samuel Cedillo
two performers on one guitar
[28th October 2023]
Summer School for Composers in Lisbon, Portugal
Sunday, July 10th 2023
19:30 - Concert with Éric-Maria Couturier
PROGRAM
Staub I - João Moreira
cello and electronics
bakhlo - Daiwei Lu
guitar
Alphesiboea- Shin Mizutani
cello and electronics
Mania - Lin Ssu-Ting
guitar and cello
Le magnolia - Hibiki Mukai
cello and electronics
Le Papillon de l'Absente (extrait) - Heng Chen
cello and guitar
Malevaje - Damian Gorandi
cello
OPTIMIZED SERENITY for those who still kiss with saliva - Ada Dinçer
cello and electronics
[10 July 2023]
fesKa Festival - Berlin
Concert with Kanae Mizobuchi and Exhibition of "coyote" at ReTramp Gallery, Berlin.
PROGRAM
MUSIC WHILE - François Sarhan
for soprano and guitar
[côrīo]·étilá [2021] - BCA
guitar and sirimcho
[16-17 June 2023]
Film presentation and Conference at ELIA conference in Évora, Portugal.
Presentation about Plastic Extension of Music and projection of the film “Unveiling the invisible” at ELIA conference in Évora, Portugal withco-director of the film Gonçalo Duarte.
Unveiling the invisible, 2022, 17:01 min.
by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete & Gonçalo Duarte
How does sound look like? Ana and Carla, both visually impaired, tell us how they “see” and feel sound. This short documentary is a fragment of how sound seems to unveil its mysterious form through the hands and “visions” of the visually impaired.
Link to a 2 minute extract of the film
[11 May 2023]
A new interview of BCA "Ne pas crever" by Frédéric Mathevet's Recueil des disjonctions
[21 January 2023]
kinamarábâfrena [Rika Usami]
New poem for cello by BCA written for Eric-Maria Couturier based on the Karate technique of Kata master Rika Usami
[30 October 2022]
Unveiling the invisible - Workshop for the blind and the visually impaired
BCA and Swedish art historian Jan Eric Olsén will hold a workshop for the blind and the visually impaired at Inter Arts Center (Malmö, Sweden).
The workshop will be filmed for the creation of a future documentary between BCA and Portuguese visual artist Gonçalo Duarte.
[5-11 September 2022]
Conference "Plastic Extension of Music"
Conference of "Plastic Extension of Music" at Festival Internacional de Guitarra de México
[7 July 2022]
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Conference at Université de la Sorbonne about "de(cor)o"
Conference about “de(cor)o” - created for and with Valoriza at Festival Encontrarte in Amares, Portugal in 2019 and its relation with the research at Lund University of “Plastic Extension of Music”.
The conference will be followed by a performance of BCA with “Improvisación II” by Gonzalo Macías and “fomio” by BCA, poem for sirimcho and loop pedal.
[23 May 2022]
Radio Sveriges Live Recording
BCA recording performing as guest soloist with Ensemble Itinéraire in Malmö at Inter Arts Center
Spektralmusik med Ensemble L’Itinéraire i Malmö
[14 February 2022]
Solo Exhibition "Plastic Extensions of Music" in Malmö, Sweden
Opening hours: Mon–Thu: 10.00–16.00, Fri: 10.00–20.00
Location: Inter Arts Center, Malmö.
Link to more information at IAC
[18th-29th October 2021]
Interview about Plastic Extension of Music
Interview at the Civitella Ranieri foundation Newsletter about the 6 week artistic residency and Plastic Extension of Music with clay.
[20th September 2021]
Prize Winner "Ad Libitum"
BCA was awarded the Winfried Böhler Kulturstiftung-Netzwerk Neue Musik Baden-Württemberg e.V. “ad libitum” competition in Germany for the composition of “Sc(herz)o infinito”, a new tableau vivant of Pieter Brueghel’s “Children’s Games”.
A link to the prize winners.
[16th July 2021]
Video with ensemble 2e2m
(EP)Scra'p by Julien Malaussena for guitar solo recorded with a series of videos with ensemble 2e2m in Paris, France.
[20th April 2021]
Interview at "Guitare Classique"
Interview at French magazine "Guitare Classique" with Florent Passamonti.
[March 2021]
Editor's choice
[p]ers[on]a mis[ce]llanea "Editor's Choice" at HighResAudio
[December 2020]
OPEN STUDIO
Artistic Residence of BCA
Fábrica de Criatividade with Festival DME and Lisboa Incomum.
15-30 October 2020
PhD Artistic Research at Lund University (Sweden)
BCA will start an Artistic Research Doctoral Program (2020-2024) at the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts in Malmö, Sweden, based on the "Plastic Extension of Music" (Porto, 2015), to make further experimentation on how to "perform" music in different formats.
kokoro - Solo exhibition in Spain
kokoro (installation)
Centro Cívico Canal de Castilla (Paseo Jardín Botánico, nº4)
from 2.03 until 16.03.2020
(de)cor(o) - Encontrarte Amares 2019
(de)cor(o) - A new mixed electroacoustic work by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete to be premiered during an artistic residency at the Festival Encontrarte in Amares, Portugal.
July 2019
Recitals in Spain and Russia in November 2018
3 November - Museo de Bellas Artes in Vitoria (Spain)
14 November - Kungur (Russia)
15 November - Concert and Masterclass in Perm. Sound 59 Festival (Russia)
Playing works of Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena, Álvaro Carlevaro, Ramon Lazkano, Gabriel Erkoreka, Teresa Catalán, Mikel Urquiza, Iñaki Estrada.
And the World Premiere of "Color" by Carlos Fontcuberta.
Composer in Residence at The 20th Edition of Festival Musique en Charolais Brionnais (France)
BCA will be Composer-in-Residence at Festival Musique en Charolais Brionnais organised and directed by pianist Juliana Steinbach.
BCA will have 5 pieces performed:
forassa (World Premiere)
for speaker, clarinet, piano and cello
performed by Tibi Cziger (clarinet), Juliana Steinbach (piano) and Éric-Maria Couturier (cello)
alanamisara
Installation for clarinet, piano and cello
performed by Tibi Cziger (clarinet), Juliana Steinbach (piano) and Éric-Maria Couturier (cello)
comme nef sur l'onde (World Premiere)
for violin and piano
performed by Amia Janicki (violin) and Juliana Steinbach (piano)
peråava
for voice and piano
performed by Mayuko Yasuda (soprano) and Romain Descharmes (piano)
kinamárabâfrena [Rika Usami]
for cello
performed by Éric-Maria Couturier
[27 July-4 August 2024]
Darkness and Silence International Seminar (21-25 March 2024)
BCA is the artistic director of the Darkness and Silence International Seminar on blindness and deafness in music and art
At Inter Arts Center in Malmö, Sweden
Conferences, Concerts, Film screenings and Exhibition
COMPLETE PROGRAM
[21-25 March 2024]
t[ô]ba nalai and Alain Bancquart
Concert at Conservatoire de Montfermeil with Orchestre Française de de Flûtes performing as soloist:
“Ma manière d'arbre I - De l'étrange circulation de la sève”
by Alain Bancquart
and
"t(ô)ba nalai" (world premiere)
by BCA
both for guitar and flûte orchestra.
[5th February 2024]
Performance of kinamárabâfrena in Dublin
Eric-Maria Couturier will be performing kinamárabâfrena at Dublin National Concert Hall
[6th December 2023]
Film presentation "Unveiling the invisible"
Film presentation and discussion of "Unveiling the invisible" at Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden.
Unveiling the invisible, 2022, 17:01 min.
by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete & Gonçalo Duarte
How does sound look like? Ana and Carla, both visually impaired, tell us how they “see” and feel sound. This short documentary is a fragment of how sound seems to unveil its mysterious form through the hands and “visions” of the visually impaired.
Link to a 2 minute extract of the film
[14th November 2023]
Film projection of "75 Centavos" and performance at Inter Arts Center
Film projection of "75 Centavos" by BCA and performance of "fomio" (from BCA) at Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden.
[26th October 2023]
Summer School for Composers in Lisbon, Portugal
Sunday, July 9th 2023
19:30 - Concert with Éric-Maria Couturier
PROGRAM
Improvisation (violoncelo) - Eric-Maria Couturier
cello
[côrīo]·étilá [2021] - Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete
guitar and sirimcho
kinamárabâfrena [Rika Usami] [2022] - Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete
cello
Magistri Mei : BACH [2020] - Jaime Reis
guitar and electronics
Pour entrer…s’y profilait [2007] - Alberto Hortigüela
cello and guitar
Dues sanguines [2016] - Joan Magrané Figuera
cello and guitar
[9 July 2023]
Conference at EUGLOH annual summit held at Lund University
Presentation about Plastic Extension of Music and projection of the film “Unveiling the invisible” at EUGLOH annual summit held at Lund University.
Link to a 2 minute extract of the film
[13 June 2023]
Conference at Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm
Presentation about Plastic Extension of Music at the Sound and Music Interaction Seminar of the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm.
[2 May 2023]
Sound Intervention at Museo San Telmo, Basque Country
Sound Intervention of BCA at Museo San Telmo of San Sebastian in Basque Country with 4 sound extensions:
engeru (Sound extension of 2 anonymous scultptures of Saint Sebastian)
rehê (Sound Extension of "Mi hija a caballo" by Antonio Ortiz Echagüe)
erinamanire (Sound Extension of "Con oreja" by Elena Mendizabal)
bo[·]bori (Sound Exntension of "Los Ángeles" by Txomin Badiola)
[17th December 2022 to 23rd January 2023]
Residence "Queue de Cerise #2" at Galerie Les Limbes in Saint Etienne (France)
BCA will be resident of "Queue de cerise" at Galerie les Limbes in Saint Etienne.
The residency will include, two conferences, a concert, a performance and recording of « fresh off the boat » by Frédéric Mathevet and an open studio exhibition.
[20 September - 3 October 2022]
Pre-World Premiere of Sc(herz)o infinito at "Der Sommer in Stuttgart"
Pre-world premiere of "Sc(herz)o infinito" a “tableau vivant” of Brueghel’s painting “Children’s games” at the “Der Sommer in Stuttgart” Festival.
WIth the participation of music schools in Germany:
Musikzug Wentzinger Gymnasium, Musikschule Renningen, Fritz Leonhardt-Realschule Degerloch, Johannes-Kepler Gymnasium Reutlingen, Landesjugendensemble Baden-Württemberg und weitere Schulen und Jugendmusikschulen aus der Region Stuttgart.
[23 July 2022]
World Premiere of koromi with Ensemble Itinéraire and BCA as soloist
Ensemble Itinéraire with BCA as soloist playing the guitar and the sirimcho will make the world premiere his new piece "koromi" for flute, string trio, guitar and sirimcho.
--World Premiere
4 July 20h30 - Teatro Fernando Soler
Festival Internacional de Guitarra de México (Saltillo, Coahuila)
--World Premiere
6 July 19h - Centro de las Artes (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
[4 and 6 July 2022]
"cansos" and Plastic Extension conference in Berlin
BCA will play a solo concert "cansos" (10th March) with 4 of his new poems:
pômrô (2020)
fomio (2020)
maeseniå (2021)
[côrīo]·étilá (2021)
And a conference (12th March) about Plastic Extension at the Towards de sound Festival in Berlin, Germany at HilbertRaum gallery.
[9-12 March 2022]
Solo guitar concert with OFF orchestra in Paris, France.
BCA will play Alain Bancquart's solo guitar and flute orchestra piece "De l'Étrange circulation de la sève" with the OFF orchestra of Pierre-Yves Artaud.
[31st January 2022]
PhD 25% Seminar with Stefan Österjö
PhD 25% Seminar defense-discussion with Swedish guitarist-improviser-researcher Stefan Östersjö about the research on “Plastic Extension of Music” at Inter Arts Center in Malmö.
Link to the video of the seminar
[15th October 2021]
World Premiere of [côrīo]·étilá
World Premiere of [côrīo]·étilá, a poem for guitar and sirimcho at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy.
Recording available.
[30th August 2021]
World Premiere of peråava
World Premiere of peråava, a poem for voice, metronomes and piano.
The performance was made by singer Mareike Schellenberger and pianist Naoko Hirata at the Château de Bellegarde in France.
A link to the press announce.
[11th July 2021]
Interview at Lund Contemporary (Sweden)
At Skissernas Museum (Lund, Sweden) interview by composer and artistic director David Riebe as part of the Lund Contemporary Festival program a dialogue about the research at Lund University of Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete's Plastic Extension of Music.
[17th March 2021]
HALT HALTUNG VERHALTEN - Online exhibition (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln)
Requiem for a beetle
fomio
TOWARDS SOUND presents selected contributions of its FLEETING ARCHIVE, closing event of the Artistic Research Laboratory at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (Germany)
[January 2021]
Interview at RTS
Radio Télévision Suisse
"L'écho des pavanes" with Benoît Perrier talking about [p]ers[on]a mis[ce]llanea.
[15 December 2020]
Towards Sound - Collective exhibition in Köln, Germany
Wall of abandoned ideas - Notes and stories
BCA will make part of the collective exhibition curated by Ruth Weisenfeld Towards Sound
SCHAUSAMMLUNG 2020
Internationale Klangbasierte Künste
curated by Rochus Aust
From the 28.10. - 07.11.2020
New video of Nasiye by Michael Finnissy
Nasiye (2002) by Michael Finnissy performed by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete
[Santpedor 2010]
Residence at Lisboa Incomum - February 2020
- 11.02 | 18:30 ESML (Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa)
Conferência (Lecture)
“Bússola rota” - A composição é para perder-se
- 12.02 | 18:30 | FBAUL (Faculdade de Belas-Artes)
Conferência (Lecture)
"Pulsações dilatadas” - Uma extensão da música nas artes plásticas
- 13.02 | 19h30 | Lisboa Incomum
Recital
Works by Manuel M. Ponce, Francisco Tárrega, Salvatore Sciarrino, Jaime Reis, Pascale Criton (for guitar in 1/12th tuning) and the world premiere of pômrô by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete a poem for guitar, sirimcho, voice and electronics, followed by a performance with artist Tânia Geiroto Marcelino.
- 14-16.02 | EMNSC - Escola de Música Nossa Senhora do Cabo
Masterclass
- 14.02 | 19h | EMNSC - Escola de Música Nossa Senhora do Cabo
Recital
Works by Francisco Tárrega, Salvatore Sciarrino, Jaime Reis, Pascale Criton (for guitar in 1/12th tuning).
douleur exquise (2015)
Live recording of the string quartet douleur exquise by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete played by Quatuor Molinari in Montréal, Canada.
[1st February 2019]
Collaboration for a new piece "Brumal" with electronic music collective Haarvöl
Brumal
New electronic music piece collaboration with a 12 string guitar and sirincho for the new album "Peripherad Debris" at Moving Furniture Records.
Recording available at: https://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/peripherad-debris
BCA composer for the "Unissons" Season in Bourgogne (France)
A series of poetry and music workshops were held in May 2024 at elder centres and a special needs residence, to interact with live music performances. To create an original musical work for clarinet, cello, piano and electroacoustic extension, with the sound and rhythmic interventions of approximately 100 residents and professionals of disability and autonomy, recorded during 12 creative workshops.
The workshops were held at Établissement d'hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes Champrouge in Mazille, Association Bien Vieillir in Val de Joux and Maison d’Accueil Spécialisé Le Replat, in Bergesserin. The music was performed by cellist Vinicius Eliézer Lins, clarinettist Elio Moreau and pianist Juliana Steinbach.
The project was funded by Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, SACEM and Fondation Banque Populaire.
[27-28 May 2024]
Performance of kinamárabâfrena in Paris
Eric-Maria Couturier will be performing kinamárabâfrena in a concert with artist singer Ryoko Aoki at La maison de la culture du Japon à Paris.
[2nd March 2024]
Performance of kinamárabâfrena
Eric-Maria Couturier, will be performing the poem of BCA: kinamárabâfrena in Lyon, France.
[14th January 2024]
75% PhD Seminar Lund University
:: Performance 30th November
Feldlinien by Andrés Nuño de Buen
Minuet K. 73 by Domenico Scarlatti
Studies 2,5 and 6 by Heitor Villa-Lobos
[corîo]·étilá by BCA
:: Exhibition 30th November-10 December
camisa de once varas
Plastic Extension of Study nº2 by Heitor Villa-Lobos
bullseye
Plastic Extension of Study nº5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Le geste et son double, triple...
Plastic Extension of Study nº6 by Heitor Villa-Lobos
(in)habit
Plastic Extension of Minuet K. 73 by Domenico Scarlatti
:: 75% PhD Seminar-Discussion with professor Max Liljefors
December 1, 14h
Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden.
[30th November 2023]
kinamárabâfrena - New video
New video of Eric-Maria Couturier performing the poem of BCA kinamárabâfrena for cello solo at Lisboa Incomum.
Link to the video
[30th October 2023]
Exhibition of "bullseye" at Encontrarte, Amares, Portugal.
Summer School for Composers in Lisbon, Portugal
Conference about Plastic Extension of Music.
[7 July 2023]
World Premiere of t(ô)ba nalai for guitar and flute orchestra
Concert in Paris (Reid Hall) with Orchestre Française de de Flûtes performing as soloist:
“Ma manière d'arbre I - De l'étrange circulation de la sève”
by Alain Bancquart
and
"t(ô)ba nalai" (world premiere)
by BCA
both for guitar and flûte orchestra.
[15 May 2023]
Presentation at CA2RE (Community for Artistic Research and Architectural Research)
Presentation about Plastic Extension of Music and the film “Unveiling the invisible” at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark.
[25 March 2023]
Solo monographic Concert at Museo San Telmo performing 4 World premieres by BCA:
rehê
erinamanire
bo[·]bori
te(h)irib
and two poems of BCA:
fomio
maeseniå
[17 December 2022]
BCA at Sveriges Radio
Anton Bennebrant from Sveriges Radio made an interview to Carla Perez de Arce (participant at the workshop) and BCA, about "Unveiling the invisible" a workshop for the blind and the visually impaired.
[13 September 2022]
Critics at Festival Internacional de Guitarra de México
Press critics after the concert of "Spectral guitar" with ensemble Itinéraire at Festival Internacional de Guitarra de México.
El zócalo "Sumergen al FIGM con espectros guitarrísticos"
La vanguardia "El día que Saltillo escuchó a una guitarra explotar sus sonidos"
[July 2022]
"Spectral Guitar" Mexican tour with Ensemble Itinéraire
BCA will make part, both as performer and composer on the Mexican tour "Spectral Guitar" of Ensemble Itinéraire in Saltillo and Monterrey.
Works by Rebecca Saunders, Pascale Criton, Elena Mendoza, Tristan Murail, John Croft and a new work by BCA.
4 July 20h30 - Teatro Fernando Soler
Festival Internacional de Guitarra de México (Saltillo, Coahuila)
6 July 19h - Centro de las Artes (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
[4-6 July 2022]
Plastic Extension of Music – The embodiment of sound
A workshop for two performers embodying sound at Inter Arts Center in Malmö, Sweden
Workshop followed by a discussion and presentation of "Plastic Extension of Music" at the Öresund Collegium coordinated by Esa Kirkkopelto in collaboration with the Malmö Theatre Academy.
13h-16h
[23 February 2022]
Metteur-en-scène at Conservatoire de Paris
BCA will make a mise-en-scène with two new plastic extensions (Fugue BWV 1005 by J. S. Bach and Über die Linie VII by Wolfgang Rhim) in collaboration with violinist Rachel Koblyakov in a "Carte Blanche" concert at Paris Conservatory,
[21st January 2022]
PhD Conference on Sustainable Development at Lund University.
BCA will give a conference on Sustainable Development at Lund University introducing the research made on "Plastic Extension of Music".
[30th September 2021]
Artistic Residency at Civitella Ranieri
Artistic Residency of BCA at Civitella Ranieri Foundation
A link to the profile at Civitella Ranieri Foundation.
[9th August to 17th September 2021]
Research of the Month
Review at "Guitare Classique" of [p]ers[on]a mis[ce]llanea
"...Intime, rafiné, émouvant, cet album restera comme une des références incontournables."
[March 2021]
Video [p]ers[on]a mis[ce]llanea
Artistic Residency at Fabrica de Criatividade
Artistic Residency in Fabrica de Criativide in Castelo Branco (Portugal) with Festival DME & Lisboa Incomum as part of Artistic Research from Lund University (Sweden).
15th October to 2nd November 2020
pômrô (2020)
Premiere recording of pômrô
poem for voice, guitar, stones, sirimcho and electronics, composed and played by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete.
February 13th 2020 in Lisboa Incomum (Lisbon, Portugal)
[a linguagem é um atrito] - Solo exhibition in Portugal
Solo exhibition
Galeria Rua do Sol in Porto, Portugal
Paintings, drawings and sculpture works by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete.
from 31st October until the 9th November 2019
Second Prize - 7ème Concours International de Composition Quatuor Molinari
Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete won the second prize at the 7e Concours International de Composition Quatuor Molinari with his string quartet douleur exquise in Montréal, Canada.
1st February 2019
Interview at Neuguitars