Music for a problem. L'arxiu descompost

Music for a Problem is a project by Gerard Valverde Ros and Marc Villanueva, curated by Difraccions.

Music for a problem is a project by Gerard Valverde Ros and Marc Villanueva, curated by Difraccions. Its starting point is the digitisation of the records of the Setmana de la Música Contemporània held in Barcelona, which the proposal revisits from a playful and critical perspective, turning the sonic remains of that festival into working material.

The installation is built around a magnetic instrument inspired by the Stokos IV, a synthesiser created by Lluís Callejo and Phonos. It allows several sound parameters of the archive materials to be modified in real time, so that the debates of the past are transformed into questions that continue to resonate in the present.

The project was developed during a residency at the Museu de la Música, drawing on the holdings of the now-defunct Centre de Documentació i Difusió de la Música Contemporània, a body created by the Ajuntament de Barcelona and dedicated to music composed after 1950. The critical reading of its materials presents the archive not as a closed collection, but as a space that activates questions, connections and interpretations.