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​SONIC CRYSTAL
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ROOM
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Edelstein - Eguía

© Diego Surueta

The Sonic Crystal Room of Edelstein and Eguía proposes another idea of the art of music and acoustic science, re-defining both and promising a new direction with a shared perception.

© Diego Surueta

Viaje a la Catedral de Santa Mónica de los Venados: Visiones I

First Cycle

Friday 29th & Saturday 30th March | Friday 5th & Saturday 6th April
Friday 12th & Saturday 13th April 2019
19.30 & 21.30 
Auditorio "Nicolás Casullo"
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES 

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Oscar Edelstein
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Born in La Paz, Argentina
Lives in Buenos Aires

Just as in the work of novelist Alejo Carpentier in which the Cathedral of Santa Monica provokes in the protagonist the sensation of encountering the origins of music, the journey proposed by this “cathedral of crystals” is like the discovery of a new musical universe - an acoustic memory with a new poetic significance that recuperates the art of profound listening.

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Manuel Eguía
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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives in Buenos Aires

Sonic Crystals are for sound just as mirrors, lenses, and prisms are for light. The sound of a single note on a musical instrument is composed by many frequencies (harmonic or not). When sounded through a Sonic Crystal, the different frequencies of this note are focused, diffracted, and reflected in different ways generating multiple images of the source.

But I had been present, a few days ago, at the birth of music. I could see beyond the dirge with which Aeschylus revived the Persian Emperor; beyond the rune with which the sons of Autolycus stanched the dark blood that flowed from Ulysses’ wounds; beyond the song designed to protect the Pharaoh Una against serpents’ stings in his journey to the other world. What I had seen confirmed, to be sure, was the thesis of those who argue that music had a magic origin.

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Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
Cuban Novelist , Musicologist & Collaborator
​ with Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Georges Bataille & Antonin Artaud

The project of the Sonic Crystal Room and the modification of the sound perception of space has resulted in many international publications including in the leading reference magazine on acoustics, the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and in the prestigious online magazine Perception.

For their part, the meta-materials are today found at the forefront of research in physics, and this project is the first to incorporate these principles in an artistic production.
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The Sonic Crystal Room is the materialisation of the idea of Acoustic Theatre that Edelstein has been developing since 2000. 

The composer Oscar Edelstein and the physicist Manuel Eguía have been developing this project for more than a decade. 

“Journey to the Cathedral of Saint Mónica of the Venison”
Oscar Edelstein

Kassia:
Zipoll:
Lilit:
Cristálida:
Sónica:
Hada Rubia:
Dama Del Cristal:
Capitán Stronatti:
Señor De Los Espejos:
Croupier:

Natalia Cappa
Lucas Werenkraut
Natalia Marcet
Anahí Fernandez Caballero
Sofía Drever
​Deborah Claire Procter
​Gabriela Bergstein
El Capitán Stronatti
Lucas Soriano
Horacio Andres Castelli

Instrumentalists

Flute:
Flute:
Clarinet: 
Tenor Sax: 
Tenor Sax:
Trompet: 
Tuba: 
Piano: 
Cello: 
Double-bass:
​Double-bass: 
Percussion: 

Fabián Murúa
Alejandro Ponte
Hugo Fazzino
Martín Proscia
Paloma Ruiz
Julian Cristiani
Ariel Suaznabar
Lorena Torales Lisowsky
Bruno Ponti
Sebastián Contreras
Marcelo Urbán
Ignacio Castro Stolkiner
Ignacio Suárez

Iris​
Original & Technical Design: Leonardo Salzano
​Construction & Programming: Leonardo Salzano, Manuel Eguí­a
Realizado con el apoyo de: CFP “Felipe Vallese” Fundemos, UOM, UNQ

Iluminación:
Sol Gómez

Masks:
​Inês Melo

Asistente del dirección general:
Ignacio C Stolkiner

Musical Direction: 
Edgardo Palotta

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Direction:  ​
​Oscar Edelstein

Sonic Crystals

Original Technical Design:
Manuel Eguí­a

Construction & Programming:
Manuel Eguía, Ignacio Spiousas, Federico Joselevich,
Sol Gómez, Leonardo Salzano, Francisco Durante,
​Lucas Gonzalez, Pablo Riera, Ignacio Castro Stolkiner

Co-ordination of Construction:
Ignacio Spiousas 

Lighting Design of Sonic Crystals:
Federico Joselevich

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Production:
LAPSo, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes

Video documentation: 
Ezequiel Hilbert

Fotos:
Sergio Santillan. Diego Surueta

Production:
LAPSo, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes

Co-Production:
Clear Insight Productions, Amarartes

Producers:
Oscar Edelstein y Manuel Eguia.
​Deborah Claire Procter. Silvia Pritz y Graciela E. Rodríguez

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Realizado con el apoyo de: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes

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