Un paso al vacio | workshop

“The sounds I can produce with my device (a drum used as an acoustic amplifier, and a set of heterogeneous objects of various shapes and materials) can only exist through my playing technique - even if I pay particular attention to the choice and modification I make of my sound objects, and of course the singularity acoustic of the room I perform in. For about fifteen years I have been practicing what in Latin is called a "dextrocentric circumambulation". "Circu cercle mambulation" walk, means a circular walk around the drum. So unlike the percussionists, I am not a tapper or a scrubber, but a pusher. Pushing while turning is a continuous movement. Only this gesture allows going into the depth of the vibration of the object in contact on the membrane, which is impossible with a back and forth gesture. My work is oriented towards suspending objects and optimising and attenuating their vibration. But in contrast to them, I consider that my body, in order to be more sensitive to this vibration, must be the first one concerned by this process. Since 2020, I have started to transmit this technique, and my first lessons consist in learning to walk. To walk while learning to decrease the terrestrial attraction, because as there is a way to increase its body anchoring (qi or chi), it is conversely possible to diminish or even displace this earthly influence, which is an absorbing mass. Walking in a circle, can it allow you to move this physical and energetic center. By putting it in the center of the drum, you can become just a vibration.” - Antez

Workshop length: 3h

The workshop will be held in English.