San Antonino

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)

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.

Staff

General coordination: Mariano Losi, Guillermo Bocanegra, Mario Gemin, Guillermo, De Diego, Martín Virgili. Navigation direction: Manuel Morilla. Assistant: Rodolfo Acosta R., Guillermo Lema, Sebastián Bauer. Recorded voice Gastón Mazières. Translation: Pamela Guruciaga. Graphic design: Mario Gemin. Photogrphy: Horacio Volpato, Diego Izquierdo, Gustavo Frittegotto, Mario Gemin. Video: Santiago Álvaro, David Bressan, Maximiliano Gutiérrez, Milagros Aquilia, Esteban Presa. Art: Candela Chirino. Art Assistant: Lucía Mondo Prados, Melisa Jaureguiberry. Music: Martín Virgili. Invited participants: Dona Margarita Flores, Marcelo Cúccaro, Miguel Canatakis, Sofía Copello, Segundo Sominson, Bárbara Inés, Gasalla, Matías Ant, Agustín Gainza, Rocío Romiglio. Production: negra40. Supports: Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Club del Dibujo, UTN – Facultad Regional Mar del Plata, UNTREF, MAR Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, ANAMORA Cruceros, Consorcio Portuario Regional Mar del Plata, Escuela Nacional de Pesca “Comandante Luis Piedra Buena”, Creciente, Proyecto Intemperie. Boats: Anamora, Milenia, Marbella, Luisito, Porreti. Incidental sounds: Corbeta A.R.A. Guerrico, Aviso A.R.A. Ground team: Rafael De Moro (Director), Leandro Kurfirst, Julia Robles, Araceli Coty, Federico Vera, Maximiliano Fasciglione, Gabriel del Fierro, Juan Martelli. Escollera Sur “Ensamble Vocal UNTREF”: Agustina Crespo (Directora), Agustín Luca Toibero , Romina Paula Carlucci, Marina Procaccini, Tomás Barbaglia, Nahuel Fernando Costa, Gustavo Zaracho, Cristian David Berardi, Federico Martin Valdez, Juán Martin Ancarola, Sofía Viñals, Tomás Shifres Urich, Sofía Garella, María Sol Taberner, Keila Liz Espeche, María Amalia Stella, Ezequiel Fernández, Sabrina Beltrame, Santiago Ezequiel Lombardo, Alejandro Cesar Torres, Joaquín Pérez Rivas, Matías Germán Oyhamburu, Daniela Lucía Galetto, Carmen Theodossiou. Escollera Norte “El recicle & Tumbele”: Facundo Passeri, Victoria, Laitano, Sofia Fortunato, María Salomón, Jorge Macchiarola, Juán Matías, Natalia Delgado, Mariana Hawrie, Romina Pérez, Julia Cirese, Diego Zoratti , Marita Moyano, 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, Sasha Bernatene y estudiantes de percusión del Instituto Marplatense de Música Contemporánea.Car1: Jorge Ihlenfeld (Director), Sabrina Salomón, Susana, Consorte. Car 2: Vera Lecko (Directora), Mauricio Juanes, Luciana Cabezas. Captains: Emilio Vandenberghe, Claudio López, Miguel Angel Petrelli, Manuel Morilla. Boat 1 (Luisito): Leopoldo Juanes (Director), Sebastián Sartal, Ingrid Bretschneider, Gabriel Virga, Sebastián Flores, Leandro Paolicchi, Lorena Gauna. Boat 2 (Anamora): Yamandú Rodríguez (Director), Gustavo Christiansen, Daniel Fuertes, Mario Zayat, Jesica Alvarez. Boat 3 (Milenia): Guillermo Bocanegra (Director), Mariano Losi, Lili Gelman, José Telles, Yamila Badra. Boat 4 (Capitán Porreti): Juan Cerono (Director), Mariano Balestena, Ramiro García Lolo, Matías Sarmiento, Matías Fajardo. Boat 5 (Marbella). Acknowledgments: Ricardo Manocchio, Martín Merlini, Jorge Tarnovsky, Luis Ignoto, José María Virgili, Romina, Garciarena, Cecilia Lagunas, Eduardo Schiel, Laura Scarfone, Juan Bertone, Federico Wacker y especialmente a todos lo que participaron de alguna u otra manera en este proyecto.

Press
La Capital
La Capital II
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Agrupaciones que participaron
Ensamble Vocal UNTREF
Ensamble El Recicle
Ensamble Negra40
Creciente
Orquesta Inestable del Club del Dibujo
Grupo de Composición “Conservatorio Luis Gianneo”

Supporters
Negra40
Fondo Nacional de las Artes
UTN – MdP
UNTREF
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAR
Club del Dibujo
Consorcio Portuario
Grupo de Composición Conservatorio Luis Gianneo
Proyecto Intemperie
Escuela Nacional de Pesca “Luis Piedra Buena”

Sponsoring companies
ANAMORA
Club Náutico Mar del Plata
IMMC (Instituto Marplatense de Música Contemporánea)

Programs

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