The Centro de la Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía (C3A), located in Córdoba and under the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Junta de Andalucía, presents the concert ’82, 4 Hertz, a mystical of obedience. The evocation of Fátima de Córdoba, will take place on Friday, April 4, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. In the black box of C3a, with free admission until capacity is reached.
The activity, as reported by the Board of Directors in a note, is part of the first season of the «exploratory» cycle, curated by Bruno Dozza and Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, and specifically, the proposal brings together Aglaya González (Viola), Susana López (sound Artist, under the alias of Susan Drone) and Raac, Raac, Guataano (Susana López (sound Artist, under the alias of Susan) and Raac, Raac, Guataano (Susana López (Sound Artist, Under Alia of Susan) and Raac, Raac, Raacano (SUSANA LÓ Sesame Drone), and Raat Quantizan (guitar), in Sesame Drone), and Raatozano (guitar), in Sesame Drone) and Raat. A program that connects contemporary Andalusian Mystic musical thought.
The program starts with the piece «Prólogo» (1976), by the French composer Gérard Grisey, a key figure in spectralism, a movement that emerged in France in the seventies that transformed musical language through the analysis of sound spectrum and processes of acoustic perception.
The «prólogo» is built from a note, a serious 82.4, which becomes the starting point for the entire concert. The piece, written for Viola only, will be performed by the violist Aglaya González, a professor at the top conservatory of music in Seville, who has already participated in the first session of the «exploratory» cycle.
With «prolonged» as a reference, the concert continues with a new creation specially designed for this occasion by the Murcian Sound Artist Susana López, «Susan Drone». The work is conceived as a tribute to Fátima de Córdoba, the mystical Andalusian breather from the 12th century and the Arab master IBN, and «Susan Drone» develops her work in the field of «drone music,» a solid practice based on sustained notes that generate highly complex and dense acoustic packets.
On the other hand, the Sevillian guitarist Raúl Quantazano incorporates his experience with the prepared flamenco guitar, an instrument of his invention that was central to his proposals of free improvisation, sound art, and experimental flamenco.
His career includes collaborations with artists like Elche Niño, Rocío Márquez, Los Volule, Andrés Marín, or Beñat Achiay. As emphasized by the «explorers» commissioners, ’82, 4 Hertz, not only offers this concert title but articulates it as a macrocomposition based on the micro-exploration of the insufficient acoustic mysteries hidden in what seems like just a single note.
This collaboration in three voices articulates a deep auditory experience, where different musical languages, historical times, and cultural approaches converge. From spectral research to experimentation, the concert is a proposal where solid research suggests an almost ritual listening.
The C3A «Explorer» proposes a space for sound research and experimentation in which musical dialogues with memory and transformation. The first season of the cycle, «Meditations around the strange,» explores the evolution of cultural and geographical boundaries that transcend sounds. This program has the collaboration of the top music conservatory Rafael Orozco de Córdoba.
About the artists
Anglada González is a founding member of the Améi Quartet and collaborates with ESSEMBLE MODERNO, ENSEMBLE RECHECHE, Taller de Sonorio, Zahir Essemble, Vertixe Sonora Essemble, and Klangforum Wien among other groups. TACA Viola D’Amoe and Barroque Viola in L’Empagna, Madrid, Bachchester Wiesbaden, Freiburger Bachorchester, Sevilla Barroque Orchestra, Stagione Frankfurt, or Le Lorrain Concert.
She trained at the «Reina Sofía» higher music school, the Royal Music Conservatory in Madrid, the University of Indiana, HFM Detmold, HFMDK Frankfurt, and a PhD at UAX. Since 2018, she combines her artistic activity with her pedagogical activity as a teacher at the top music conservatory «Manuel Castillo» in Seville.
She also teaches courses and lectures at Mozarteum, Uax, Baptist University of Hong Kong, the Royal Danish Music, and numerous conservatories in Spain and collaborates as a teacher for youth.
Susana López, on the other hand, is interested in audiovisual proposals that allow her to explore the relationship between light and sound, as her establishment explores how these immaterial elements can change our perception of space and time.
In her solid creations, she uses transformed field recordings, humanized vocal synthesis, and harmony. Her performances are characterized by the inclusion of abstract and minimalist sounds, accompanied by her own immersive visuals.
With eight albums published, two of them on the Bath Euple label (Austin), she has also participated in various international compilations. She has performed at festivals like CCKPT Sound Art (Germany), Sónikas (Madrid), Lem (Barcelona), or the renowned Punkt (Norway), among others. Her sound artworks have traveled to Norway, Germany, or Mexico. In 2013, she published «Noise Policy. Noise as the ultimate weapon,» an investigation of sound experiment and indiscipline, whose works later developed into 15 podcasts.
Raúl Quantazano, on the other hand, is an obscure and unique guitarist, an explorer of the limits of the instrument and genres. His music, blending flamenco, atmosphere, improvisation, and rock, is experimental in the truest sense of the word. As a guitarist, he has accompanied and been part of the most innovative flamenco projects in the 21st century. Creating and directing music in many picturesque proposals.
The guitarist of Niño de Elche, he also performs alongside Rocío Márquez or Andrés Marín, has collaborated with Llorerç Barber or Juan Carlos Lérida, among many other flamenco artists, such as Belén Maya, Sebas, or María Moreno.
He co-founded, with Santiago Barber, the experimental factory «bulos.net,» where he directed proposals like «bulo y tanguerías,» «Vielbacon, canta fuerzas,» or «diálogos electro flamenco.» Among his recorded works, the «área del cable» (on Castanya 2021) stands out.