En Busca Del Pasto

En Busca Del Pasto came into being as a project for musical improvisation, although at present their production incorporates a relevant visual hemisphere. It is, therefore, a musical and visual project.

En Busca Del Pasto offers live performance, and it is these live shows that matter (records and recordings are to be considered mere samples). Musicians arrange images beforehand to be projected on stage. These images stand for particular concepts that give the visual hemisphere its meaning. But images are only the context in which music comes to life every time. We say that it lives: it flows spontaneously, responding to each stone it comes across, to each sensation it perceives. Each organ (each musician) responds with a beat, a note, a word, or with his silence… improvising, it must be noted.

So we have two sides, music and image. Both realities appear before the audience with equal intensity, exchanging and combining their meanings - that is what makes the piece: its unity. And in this unity we must look for the piece's real meaning.

Depicting existence requires the use of contrasts: subject and background, the self and the world. The living in its context. This is what En Busca Del Pasto tries to represent. On stage, a cold surface is displayed: video, the impassive image, created beforehand, removed from all interaction, unaltered flux (like the world); and on it, the musicians, alive, with no music stand, with no instruction book, drops of moisture on the stage, reacting to the image, subjugated but free… Contradictory, that's the point.

The quest doesn't reach a conclusion, our experiences aren't exhausted in a final interpretation of what has been lived. This is why the search never ends. The pasture is never found. It is the searching that counts.


Text extracted from "Buscando En Busca Del Pasto" (PDF)

Outlined performances

• 29/11/2008 - With Zan Hoffman at La Casa de los Jacintos.
• 13/6/2008 - Presentation of the exquisite corpse El Salami», a Rotor 256 project.
• 1/3/2008 - «Pasto en escena» in Ateneo Abierto concert series.
• Montly perfromance at Centro Cultural La Casa de los Jacintos in 2007.
• 7/7/07 - «Interacciones» at «El Matadero» (Madrid), Mirador 2007, Intermediae.
• 22/5/07 - «Retrospectiva (II)», Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Paraninfo de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.
• 18/5/07 - EBDP musical improvisation and improvised verse reading by poet Javier Gil Martín in Biblioteca Nacional special programme for International Museum Day of 2007 (Madrid).
• 13/4/07 - «Anatomía de la Intimidad», XLIV Congreso de Jóvenes Filósofos «Cuerpo y Sexualidad», at «La escalera de Jacob» (Madrid).
• 6/4/07 - EBDP at CUE, at Gallery Wenseisser Fraitag of Berlín (Germany).
• 13/1/07 - «Este lugar» at «AvLAB» closure party, Centro Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid).
• 4/11/06 - «Quebrantahuesos», «Artépolis» room (Madrid).
• 12/4/06 - «Trabajo en 4 palabras», «L´OST» room of Berlín (Germany).
• 31/3/04 - Performance at Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Videos

At Vimeo you can find the En Busca Del Pasto videos.