San Antonino
music for orchestras, whistles, cars and yellow boats for the port of the city of Mar del Plata (2016 – 2018)
for the port of the city of Mar del Plata (2016 – 2018)
December 1, 2019 at 12:00 p.m.
San Antonin: the 2019 version of this music for ensembles. Performed in the port of Mar del Plata.
Music
Martín Virgili
Special collaboration for the development of the project
Mariano Losi
Presentation
“San Antonino” is a musical composition made for the port of Mar del Plata. We intend to make a space of 640,000 square meters audible by intervening in its sound landscape with different sound sources. This work, which can be understood at the local, regional and global levels, explores the ways in which art can help denaturalize understandings of geographic spaces and recover untold histories of a region.
The project consists of two horn and whistle ensembles (located in the southern and northern breakwaters), two cars with sirens (moving along the southern breakwater) and yellow boats equipped with sirens, horns and musicians. In addition, a high-range sound system, located at the top of “the Christ” statue on the southern breakwater, will reproduce field shots of sounds from the annual nautical pilgrimage and everyday life at the port.
Ports have always referred to the exchange of ideas, novelties, new worlds. They are unstable, dynamic, rhythmic, places of business, yes, but also of solidarity, attention, care, teamwork. There is an economy, it is true, but it is an adventure economy, a constant bet that its workers make on the sea. Ports are emotional territories, in them we find joy, ambition, fear, disappointment, resignation, hope. All this great movement shelters a social and geographical sound, which we want to amplify.
Between roars and sirens, shoutings and horns, San Antonino goes back to the myths that forged the construction of a local identity, such as “the nautical pilgrimage”, “the feast of the fishermen”, “the waters’ baptism”, and asks us to think of the modes of appropriation and significance of the territory that these vernacular rituals promote. The port of the city of Mar del Plata is presented as a paradigm for the city as source of cultural heritage and pride and social safeguard, through descriptions of aspects of the port’s history and the daily life of its workers.
Deeply local, this music, complex for interpretation due to the coordination it requires, has in its sights an idea of art understood as social sculpture, that is, an art of agreements between peers, an art that thrives on the joy of generating a shared project for a community benefit. An art of peace. A social art. San Antonino is the sound of a place, and therefore, of those who inhabit it.
Motivation
San Antonino is a musical project with a strong heritage stamp. The composition is mobilized by the deteriorated situation of the yellow boats of Mar del Plata and the other heritage assets (tangible and intangible) of the Port of the city. Without losing sight of the festive nature of popular music, San Antonino also seeks to direct attention to the port’s territory and its material circumstances, that is: its sounds, its practices, its history, its social relationships, its symbols.
Movements
Andante de sirenas con marcato de trompas y silbatos.
Vocazioni animate de las escolleras.
Proclama emotivo al Puerto de Mar del Plata.
Entrata trionfale de los barcos.
Passerella a filo de banderas y pañuelos.
Danza delle barche con poema a las familias fundadoras.
Grande cadenza.
Canción del pescador: Madonnina del mare.
Homenaje. Omaggio solenne.
Amado Mar del Sur, ti ricordiamo con i fiori.
Grande finale, maestoso ed esplosivo, con bombas, gritos, coros e luci.
Press
La Nación (revista)
La Capital
Qué Digital
Staff
General coordination: Mario Gemin, Mariano Losi y Martín Virgili. Assistant: Guido Bressan y Diana León.Navigation Direction Manuel Morilla. Remote assistant: Guillermo Bocanegra. Recorded voice: Gastón Mazières. Translation: Pamela Guruciaga. Graphic design Mario Gemin. Photogrphy: Mario Gemin, Pablo González, Diego Izquierdo, Esteban Presa y Horacio Volpato y Malala Lekander. Music: Martín Virgili. Acknowledgments: Celina Artigas, Carolina Boggia, Carlos Mancino, Eduardo Mayer, Ricardo Manocchio, Paola Galano, Jorge Tarnovsky, Cecilia Lagunas, Agustín y Daniel Lucífora, Alicia Romero, Marcelo Giménez, y a Lilah Juanes y su coro de pañuelos. Production: negra40. Supporters: Creciente, I.M.M.C. “El Insti”, Club del Dibujo, CEAC (UTN – FR MdP), Crucero Anamora, Consorcio Portuario Regional Mar del Plata y Escuela Nacional de Pesca “Comandante Luis Piedra Buena”. Boats: Anamora, Milenia, Luisito. Incidental sounds: Corbeta A.R.A. Guerrico, Aviso A.R.A. Ground team: Leandro Kurfirst. Voice: Ingrid Bretschneider. Chord: Mariana Addino, Gabriela Liliana Arias, Virna Carolina Bavicchi, Maria Jimena Araya Cadiz, Florencia Carlon, Marisa Roxana Carulli y Maria Raquel Mendez Bueno. Recitation: Araceli Coty. Explosives: Guido Bressan. South Point: Martín Virgili (Dirección), Carola Ábalos, Juan Bertone, Carolina Ciordia, Andrea Cora, Lucila Gil, Rosana Edith Gómez, Diana León, Laura Larice, Gisela Mascali, Fernanda Mujica, Vanesa Cintia Rodríguez, Lorena Román, Fernanda Violante y Leonardo Salvini. El Recicle: Facundo Passeri (Dirección), Marita Moyano, Victoria Laitano, Sofia Fortunato, María Salomón, Jorge Macchiarola, Juán Matías, Natalia Delgado, Mariana Hawrie, Romina Pérez, Julia Cirese, Diego Zoratti, Javier Olguín, Miguel Morro, Laura Cabrera, Gabriel Garcia, Graciela Córdoba, Miriam Caviglia, Sol Rodríguez, Francisco Rodríguez, Facundo Osenda, Paula Rodríguez, Raul Poggi, Manuel Fernández, Martin Apesteguia, Constanza Carlón, Veronica Baratucci y Sasha Bernatene. Car 1: Jorge Ihlenfeld y Vera Lecko. Car 2: Federico Lavallén y Rodrigo Arroyo. Captains: Emilio Vandenberghe, Claudio López y Rafael Guiñazú. Boat 1 (Luisito): Leopoldo Juanes (Dirección), Sebastián Sartal, Gabriel Virga, Sebastián Flores, Leandro Paolicchi, Ana Clara Manera, Martín Umerez, Facundo Bayón, Malala Lakender y Alexis Nicolet. Boat 2 (Anamora): Javier Bustos (Dirección), Gustavo Christiansen, Lucía Drocchi, Juan Leitrica, Matías Sarmiento y David Bressan. Boat 3 (Milenia): Mariano Losi (Dirección), José Telles, Yamila Badra, Camila Juárez, Diana León, Cesar Zaffalón y Manuel Morilla.
Participants
Ensamble El Recicle
Ensamble Negra40
Creciente
Orquesta Inestable del Club del Dibujo
Grupo de Composición “Conservatorio Luis Gianneo”
Supporters
Negra40
UTN – MdP
UNTREF
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAR
Club del Dibujo
Consorcio Portuario
Proyecto Intemperie
Escuela Nacional de Pesca “Luis Piedra Buena”
Creciente
Sponsoring companies
ANAMORA
Club Náutico Mar del Plata
IMMC (Instituto Marplatense de Música Contemporánea)
