César Camarero converts a photo-documentary into narrative goldsmith | Culture | EUROtoday

César Camarero (Madrid, 1962) is a composer who, underneath an obvious tranquility, with a clothes of the wild west, hides fireplace flares that it prices to acknowledge. The musical theater proposal that the Juan March Foundation has staged this Wednesday, How to add a stairs with out stepsin co -production with the Turina Room of Seville, it’s a good signal of what has been mentioned. It is a narrative advised with photonovela, docudrama and thriller to which stay music helps from a sound base of quiet magnificence.

The substance is that of an alleged detective (every thing is assumed right here), who follows the steps of a girl from whom she suspects one thing associated to a espionage or some plot with secret keys. Everything is counted from cell images and an off voice that describes operations to a different “assumption” colleague. The two protagonists of the story, she and him, are fastened in a video that incorporates the pictures, the voice and, in some unspecified time in the future, a big video.

Formally, waiter, composer and creator of your complete intrigue, defines the expertise as an existential drama and there’s a good observe, this docudrama about pictures has loads of an expertise like Chris Marker’s in The pier or, to a lesser extent its different movie Level 5and, as in them, additionally a waiter presents an enigma to resolve. The first of the enigmas is obvious instantly, he discovers that somebody sneaks into the pictures, who observes the observer, who probably follows the one who follows her. And that mirror, maybe the assassin, if there’s a crime, is none aside from the waiter who comes out thus wearing a hat and a visual beard, each within the pictures and ultimately, when the composer himself seems on the scene with comparable clothes and delivers one thing to the pianist with the identical secretism as seen within the pictures.

That concept that maybe the assassin is the creator himself additionally refers us to a different nice French creator, Georges Perec, the one who wrote an entire novel of occasions through which the letter E was lacking and that, ultimately, it’s found that the disappearance (the disappearance (the disappearance (the disappearance (the disappearance (the disappearance (The disappearance) that they’re investigating is that of that lacking letter. The textual content, anyway, derives from a narrative by the American Stanley J. Reeve re -tabajada by Virginia Nogueira.

But there’s something extra disturbing. In the midst of the plot, she seems on video this time to point out a type of dissertation through which he tells us about a bit of identified episode through which a journalist from the previous newspaper Pueblo Interview with a “death sentence for a false crime” and that had managed to sneak out of justice for greater than three a long time. For that article, the journalist had been sentenced to a number of months in jail he met, it was the yr 1970 and in Franco he didn’t be a part of with these issues. That journalist was referred to as Julio Camarero, and his reminiscence leads us to that “wild” journalism that some names, Pérez-Reverte, Raúl del Pozo, Carmen Rigalt, José María García …

In a latest article of The day De la Rioja, signed by Javier Villahizán, thus described the imprisoned journalist: “One of those illustrious was Julio Camarero who, before becoming a correspondent and editor -in -writing through events. In that department he did everything for an exclusive, from impersonating police to steal the photos of the deceased to cut the passage to the rest of the journalists who were going to cover the news.”

All composers are liars

At the top of the piece, a poster signifies that it’s devoted to Julio Camarero, “my father.” In sum, the piece investigates one thing that’s nothing aside from the thriller of that legendary father of the musician. The composer quotes the Paradox of Epimenides, Tunisus: “All composers are liars”, however the true drawback lies in one other script flip, typically the composers inform the reality.

And how does this attention-grabbing plot work with up to date music as a assist and an intelligently schematized video? That is the million greenback query, particularly as a result of this proposal, debtor of traces of the avant -garde of the 20th century and with the intention of investigating new methods of telling tales, has few background and every thing that’s novel with out being scandalous all the time has extra difficulties of regular to be admitted. If I’ve to danger a private opinion, I discover it fascinating. It shouldn’t be opera, it isn’t theater, it isn’t cinema or is a live performance and, however, all of the genres cited are concerned. In my view, it additionally has one other advantage, it’s terribly financial, it reveals that it’s attainable to tempt different methods to depend with out extra manufacturing.

With regard to the artists concerned, the point out of the Sound Workshop Group of Seville is compelled and excellent. This glorious sextet of up to date music doesn’t must display something to what already completed in a demanding inventive profession of greater than 25 years. The music {that a} waiter has written to them of an uncommon mood, should depend with out counting, maintain the heartbeat from a type of beats that present few fluctuations however that assist curiosity. It is tough music, as is a waiter generally, however with out perceiving as such. In addition, group members have been concerned in duties such because the manufacturing design, carried out by the pianist Ignacio Torner, or the sound results, in command of Baldomero Llorens percussionist. It is, in sum, a group success to which the phrase of actor Manolo Caro, expressive and pregnant with nuances of the previous detective, and the actress Rocío de Frutos have to be added, who walks by way of a Seville away from the matters, sowing mysteries and all the time distant, as are all the time the characters which have issues to cover.