San Antonino
music for orchestras, whistles, cars and yellow boats
for the port of the city of Mar del Plata (2016 – 2018)
Martín Virgili
December 5, 2021 – 11 a.m.
Port of the city of Mar del Plata
Special collaboration for the development of the project
Mariano Losi
Press
Emotional representation of the unique work “San Antonino” in the Port
The original work “San Antonino” will be performed next Sunday
“San Antonino”, the music of the Port of Mar del Plata
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Poster 1
Poster 2
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, and a plane. 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.
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. But he is fundamentally interested in designing a contemporary popular festival.
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. 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.
General Coordination
Leopoldo Juanes
Mario Gemin
Manuel Morilla,
Martín Virgili
Direction of Navigation
Manuel Morilla
Music
Martín Virgili
Recording voice
Gastón Mazières
Translation
Pamela Guruciaga
Graphic design
Mario Gemin
Web design
Jorge Ihlenfeld
Photography
Diego Izquierdo
Horacio Volpato
Gustavo Frittegotto
Video
Maximiliano Gutiérrez
Julián Teubal
Victoria Bornaz
Julia Elena Zárate
Fernando Diego Arditi Rocha.
Curatorial team BIENALSUR
Leandro Martínez Depietri
Liliana Piñeiro
Production BIENALSUR
Juana Carranza Vélez
Natalia Uccello
Voice: Ingrid Bretschneider. Recitation: Araceli Coty
Fernanda Mujica
Ensemble North
Facundo Passeri (Director)
Belu Bonecco
Natalia Delgado
Sol Rodríguez,
Mirian Caviglia
Ezequiel Moya
Leo San Martín
Alfonsina Trucco
Caro Altamirano
Florencia Changa
Pato Cechi
Sebastián Thomas
Maximiliano Torero
Javi Olguín
Marcelo Amorós
Dafne Cacero
Sol Rodríguez
Ensemble south
Martín Virgili (Director)
Sofía Copello
Carola Ábalos
Victoria Salas
Federico Wacker
Andrea Cora
Luciano Garló
Paula Suero
Gustavo Morales
Leo Salvini
Mariano Darrichon
Facundo Pereyra
Camila Sanchéz
Daniel Besoytaorube
Valeria Gopar
Cesar Zaffalón
Carlos Pérez
Almendra Pereyra
Plane
Fernando Castillo
Luisito (Boat 1)
Leopoldo Juanes (Director)
Camila Suero
María Inés Flores García
Vanesa Bardelli
Sebastian Flores Garcia
Lilah Juanes Federman
Mariela Federman
Diego Izquierdo
Irina Alexandrovna Sartalovska Iakovleva
Sebastián Sartal
Malala Lakender
Constanza Tello de Meneses
Fernando Diego Arditi Rocha
Anamora (Boat 2)
Javier Bustos (Director)
Sabrina Salomón
Gustavo Chistiansen
Juan José Souto
Mariana Pellejero
Paula Elgarrista
Marcos Calvari
Daniel Basso
Cinthia Kazez
Morita Vargas
Victoria Bornaz
Leonardo Da Vinci (Boat 3)
Mariano Losi (Director)
Manuel Morilla
Camila Juárez
José Telles
Yamila Badra
Paola Galano
Claudia Roldos
Jane Brodie
Santiago Foresi
Myrna Osuna
Tropea Mare (Boat 4)
Lucía Drocchi (Directora)
Margarita Wilson Rae
Gustavo Rizzi
Candela Chirino
Analía Isabel Funes
Paola Belfiore
Gustavo Frittegotto
Anamora Ensemble of children
Carolina Wacker (Apoyo 1)
Rosana Vives (Apoyo 2)
Nina Wacker
Juana Wacker
Mia Álvarez Wacker
Kevin Álvarez Wacker
Team Cristo
Rafa de Moro (Director)
Leandro Kurfirst
Guillermo de Diego
Adriana Sasali (LaSo)
Yamandú Rodríguez (LaSo)
Victorio Lépore
Car
Luciana Cabezas (Director)
Pedro Tauzy
Ariel Sciuto
Mauricio Juanes
Pablo Engel.
Suport
Negra40
UTN – MdP
UNTREF
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAR
Consorcio Portuario
Escuela Nacional de Pesca «Luis Piedra Buena»
Astillero SPI
ANAMORA
Leonardo Da Vinci
Escuela de vuelo Aeroclub Mar del Plata
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