Patxi Valera

Aquófono

The Theory of Five Movements, Wu Xin, offers a comprehensive and complete explanation of all stages, states and cycles. The Chinese patiently observed the close relationship between human and natural elements. The theory of five elements or movements was quickly reflected in medicine, associated with the five organs and the five viscera governing the related body functions. It’s Application has also extended to many other branches of knowledge, having been associated to the five flavors, five colors, five cardinal points, five seasons, five sounds, five tones, five planets, five virtues, five grains, five climates or five emotions, for a total of overfifty different categories. The project “Aquófono Mustica” is inspired by this five state theory and represents a complete sequence through various sound elements, as a dynamic creative proposal for the continuous creation/re-creation of the universe in motion. The aim is to pay tribute to a way of thinking that puts the elements of nature as the main force involved in the cycles of creation and destruction, from the moment of conception until death.

Patxi Valera was born in Coruña (Galicia, Spain) in 1970 and has a degree in Social Psychology. His self-taught learning, as well as his eclectic artistic-musical character, directed him to engage with various formations of collective creations whose work focused primarily on audiovisual experimentation and free improvisation. In 1991 helped to put in motion the multimedia group Kozmic Muffin in which he participated as a drummer, percussionist, lyricist and screen writer for more than 10 years. Since forming, in 1999, PARTO along with drummer Luis Alberto Rodríguez Legido he has dedicated himself to the study of form and sound inexperimental music. In 2002 he started working with L.A.R. Legido on the Prototype of what is currently the Aquófono, a new way to generate musical noise from simple water drops. Heis part of CNTPS, Pico Sacro Centre for New Technologies organizing the “Sesiones Vibracionales” cycle improvised music concerts. A result of this experience was the orchestra OMEGA, Orquesta de Música Espontánea de Galicia, formed by nearly thirty galician musicians and visual artists committed to creating real-time music guided by bodily signs from the director.