{"id":12830,"date":"2023-01-20T00:43:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=12830"},"modified":"2024-09-16T14:59:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T18:59:39","slug":"en-defensa-del-espacio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/en-defensa-del-espacio\/","title":{"rendered":"In defense of space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone (with whom I disagree) told me that in each musical work, the composer should deploy all the knowledge he has accumulated. To a certain extent I understand this, but I don't think that in each creation one should throw up all one's resources. The overdose of information is <\/span>the disease of the century, <\/span><\/i>one whose danger lies mainly in its capacity to envelop anyone who contracts it, since it is much more stimulating to receive and receive, without processing. The oversaturation of information creates a state in which its absence is perceived as something negative, as if the <\/span>empty space<\/span><\/i> was a lack. As if silence were not part of the music, as if the listener were a passive receiver and did not have enough capacity to project something in that space that is left.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I like songs that allow me to inhabit them and not those that engulf and cloy me with information, sound and textures. As a thinking being, I possess and enjoy the ability to reason and interpret information, either to find the meaning or the reason that motivated the creator, or to find how to apply it in my favor or against me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One of my favorite sports, in my time as a musician in Ruido Blnco, was to debate with Marcos Gonz\u00e1lez each and every one of the seventeen million things we love about Vetusta Morla (or Silvio, Fito, Drexler, Sabina, Calamaro, Izal, or whatever the author of the moment was at that rehearsal). In one of those endless debates we came to the conclusion that the main magic of compositions lies in their ability to create spaces, without necessarily delimiting them. I don't remember which of us said it, but the conclusion was something like the value of being \"a space\".<\/span>a canvas on which to project<\/span><\/i>''. Every now and then, an old song gives me something new; however, after landing on it, and listening in retrospect to all the composers I love, admire and study, I realize that they possess precisely that ability to communicate, under specific codes, stories or situations archetypal enough to be honest, coherent and tell a personal story, while leaving enough space for the listener to add his own story to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n