“So much happens in a touch: an infinity of others – other beings, other spaces, other times – are aroused” - Karen Barad

Sesión de escucha y conversación para presentar el nuevo CD de Santiago Latorre "La liviandad de un fragmento repetido”, desarrollado en residencia en Free Music School entre agosto y octubre de este año. Se trata de un encuentro informal donde escuchar en primicia estas nuevas canciones y conocer los procesos creativos y temáticas que las inspiran.

miercoles 13 de noviembre a las 18.00

Subvenciona:

A*DESK presenta: A*LIVE 2024
”Architecture of Friendship”

Free Music School Artist-in-Residence Santiago Latorre performs live with the marvelous Nieves Arilla at Sala Apolo!!!

“The Architecture of Friendship is a collective project inspired by the notion of an ecosystem and the value of interdependence. It is led by Spanish composer Santiago Latorre and includes Spanish singer Nieves Arilla, American multimedia artist Colin Self, and Colombian performer Atabey Mamasita. AoF performs in different constellations. For A*LIVE 2024, the constellation will be Santiago and Nieves.”

Sala Apolo
Carrer Nou de la Rambla, 113
Sants-Montjuïc, 08004 Barcelona

• Doors Open at 20:00

• Concert at 21:00

On Saturday, October 26, Manuel Del Rincón will play whatever he wants to play needs to play for us on the piano.

- Doors open 5:00pm

Follow Manu on Instgram:
https://www.instagram.com/manuel.del.rincon/

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us to Pay Our Teachers, pay the rent, keep the lights on, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But! if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE

Workshop Description:

Can you imagine a 4D Papyrus? What kind of hieroglyph would it read?What be its words, its ink, its sounds?

Is it a Place of Pilgrimage, or a Punctuation of Performance?
Is it rather a stone, or a Rosetta Dice unrolled?

This is an invitation to resituate the flow of sense in our clotted silo of inherited meanings. 

• Doors Open at 12:00pm.

• Workshop begins at 1:00pm.

• El taller será en inglés con español.

Rasheed Jalloul is a Musician, Architect and Poet, with this MAP he browses a navigation of mind over geography. A Lebanese native in Barcelona, his transdisciplinary art practice unifies two faces in one coin: Engineering Intelligibility and Redefining Domesticity in an innocent act of Reindigenization. This Parthenogenetic Poeticism is an impulse response to a cultural displacement that wields the threat of Educational Extinction. In a leap from History to Origin, from the Historical to the Original, what is language outscales scripture and speech, and what is native outechoes continent and conquest: From a Delimiting Geography to a ReVertebraeiting Gravity, from Divisive Literacy to Symbiotic Fluency.

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us pay the rent, keep the lights on, pay our teachers, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE

On Sunday, October 13, Manuel Del Rincón will play whatever he wants to play needs to play for us on the piano.

- Doors open 5:00pm
- Manu begins at 6:00pm

https://www.instagram.com/manuel.del.rincon/

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us to Pay Our Teachers, pay the rent, keep the lights on, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But! if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE

The Free Music School is honored to present:

October 12 “Nothing to Celebrate”
Organized by Cintia Sefirelly

October 12th has gone from being the traditional Columbus Day to become a day of struggle and vindication of the original peoples of Abya Yala (America).

Day for Decolonization, from the trans/black/indigenous resistance, which through writing, dance and performance fight against discrimination and addresses social issues such as anti-colonialism, racism, identity struggle, sexual dissidence, and inequality in indigenous communities.

Documentary Screening “Muxe and Marikas”.

MASI MAMANI (Argentina)

• BARTOLINA XIXA (2019). Documentary short film, (8 min).

• Ramita Seca, La colonialidad permanente (2019). Videodance, (5 min).

LUKAS AVENDAÑO (Mexico)

• The Utopia of the Butterfly (2019). Documentary short film, (30 min).

• Muxhe performer: “No soy persona soy Mariposa” (2015). Fragment of performance (5 min).

MIKAELAH DRULLARD (Dominican-Mexican).

• Manifesto of a mule in the racist and white city of Bogotá (2023)Performance fragment (2 min).

• A position of no genuflection before Columbus (2024) Manifesto of a mule in the racist and white city of Bogota, (5 min).

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us to Pay Our Teachers, pay the rent, keep the lights on, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But! if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE

Invitation For Lecture #3 of seven:

Magic is about Manipulating Movement, it is the [dis]Tortion of Time. In many ways it's the Conjuring of Coincidence, the Orchestration of Accident.

Let's endorse our errors with a Hummus Habibi <3

• DOORS OPEN AT 12:00PM

• LECTURE BEGINS AT 1:00PM

*Note: The lecture will be in English with Spanish.

Rasheed Jalloul is a Lebanese architect , poet and composer based in Barcelona. In an attempt to intertwine the disciplines of architecture and music , Rasheed ’s artistic research explores gravity as a moderator of geometry , “a metronome of form”. His work attempts to uncover new and unconventional scales of understanding , derived from the integration of a synaesthetic language of architecture and music , where spatial construction aligns with linguistic semantics .

His work has been exhibited and presented in various cultural centres and festivals such as MACBA (Barcelona), Kampnagel ( Hamburg ) , Sheffield Doc Fest, Fundaci ó n Enric Miralles, Espai Barberi by RCR Arquitectes, La Infinita, Tecla Sala, Casa Eli z alde and the Free Music School in Barcelona.

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us pay the rent, keep the lights on, pay our teachers, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE

Three years after her untimely and unexpected death in a boating accident off the coast of Moldova, I do my part to resurrect our spirits by projecting, on the big screen, on loop, never before seen videos and photos of her performing at Poble Sec’s infamous Bar Rufián between 2017-2021. (Virgin Cuba Libres will be served). — Michael Hart

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us to Pay Our Teachers, pay the rent, keep the lights on, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But! if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE

Free Music School Eternal Resident Artist Manuel Del Rincón performs the works of Ludwig van Beethoven.

- Doors open 12:00pm
- Recital starts at 1:00pm

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us to Pay Our Teachers, pay the rent, keep the lights on, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But! if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE

Invitation For Lecture #2 of seven:

Magic is about Manipulating Movement, it is the [dis]Tortion of Time. In many ways it's the Conjuring of Coincidence, the Orchestration of Accident.

Let's endorse our errors with a Hummus Habibi <3

• DOORS OPEN AT 12:00PM

• LECTURE BEGINS AT 1:00PM

*Note: The lecture will be in English with Spanish.

Rasheed Jalloul is a Lebanese architect , poet and composer based in Barcelona. In an attempt to intertwine the disciplines of architecture and music , Rasheed ’s artistic research explores gravity as a moderator of geometry , “a metronome of form”. His work attempts to uncover new and unconventional scales of understanding , derived from the integration of a synaesthetic language of architecture and music , where spatial construction aligns with linguistic semantics .

His work has been exhibited and presented in various cultural centres and festivals such as MACBA (Barcelona), Kampnagel ( Hamburg ) , Sheffield Doc Fest, Fundaci ó n Enric Miralles, Espai Barberi by RCR Arquitectes, La Infinita, Tecla Sala, Casa Eli z alde and the Free Music School in Barcelona.

https://www.instagram.com/rasheedjalloul/

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us pay the rent, keep the lights on, pay our teachers, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE

SCHEDULE:

• 8:00pm-9:30pm: Doors Open + Pika-Pika

• 9:30pm-10:00pm: Poetry Recital with YÃO k (we will begin on time!)

• 10:00pm-11:00pm: FIREWORKS!

Recital Description:

This story of four oral poems in Castellano and one body poem crosses the experiences of love from different personal perspectives, in my case from these 5:

- Reciprocal love
- Distant love
- Physical love
- Confused love
- Self-love

On this journey, I want to show you how I feel through words, the convergences and experiences I share with the people around me and those I meet along the way. If these stories resonate with you, then they’re probably meant for you.

Personal Description:

Call me YÃO k
And that's where we'll begin

From Lisbon, where my mother gave me life not once, but twice in the hospital bathroom when I couldn’t even breathe

Raised in Logroño, where I found inspirations that allowed me to breathe while diving in the Ebro

I let myself be moved by many places, and few stayed as deeply within me as poetry. There were alleyways like color, light, and makeup that are very much a part of my neighborhood and Will never disappear, no matter how far I go

These places that inhabit and fill me
Are the places I want to take you to

Follow me on Instagram.

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us to Pay Our Teachers, pay the rent, keep the lights on, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But! if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE

Join us to Celebrate Anna Muñoz's 70th Birthday!

Anna Muñoz, mother to Helio, a dedicated public school teacher for over 35 years, and a cherished neighbor who has cared for Michael for over a decade, is turning 70! Anna is a talented urban sketcher, photographer, art teacher, and medicine woman—so many wonderful things to celebrate about her!

We invite neighbors, friends, and family to gather at the Free Music School to honor Anna's life and work.

Event Details | 6:00pm-11:00pm

• Photography Exhibition by Anna Muñoz
  Carrer Purisima Concepció and Beyond | Poble Sec, BCN | Circa 1981

• Bio Wine from Vic, available for purchase, courtesy of Ferran Font.

• Pika Pika de Honduras, lovingly prepared by our friend and neighbor Carmen.

• Local Celebrity Bingo hosted by a Surprise Guest – get ready for some fun!

Suggested Donation:
Pay-What-You-Can, with a suggested contribution of 10€ to help offset food costs.

Special Activity:
At 11:00 PM, we'll walk together to the Greek Theater for the concert "Encuentro d'Arreu."

Follow Anna on Instagram: @munoanna
Anna will also be teaching an urban sketcher's class this winter. Reach out to her on Instagram to learn more!

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us to Pay Our Teachers, pay the rent, keep the lights on, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But! if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE

Day 3:

What would a “Benjaminian archaeology” be? Presentation of other research related to a Benjaminian archaeology (Christine Buci-Glucksmann; Marc Sagnol; Josef Fürnkäs; Christian Emden; Knut Ebeling; Nadine Werner).

Class Description:

*This class will be taught in Portuguese.

The metaphor of archaeology as a metaphor for a [philosophical] method of analysis dates back to Kant and was later used by Freud, Benjamin, Husserl, Foucault, Agamben, among others. In the course “Walter Benjamin as Archaeologist,” we propose to go beyond — or perhaps fall short of! — this metaphor by articulating the motif of archaeology in the work of the German-Jewish philosopher, seeking to align it with the discipline of archaeology itself. Among other things, throughout the course, we question: if there is a Benjaminian archaeology, what would be the specificity of this archaeology?

We start from the central hypothesis that the program for a new writing of history, as outlined by Benjamin in “On the Concept of History” (1940), can only be carried out if we are first able to confront, as Archaeology does, the material remnants of the past — and in this case, those remnants left behind by the defeated. That is, a writing of history that does not rely exclusively on written documents — the primary object of History — since writing has historically [almost] always served the purpose of legitimizing and maintaining power and, therefore, the history of the victors.

The course is an initiative of the Graduate Program in Literature and Culture at UFBA, the Center for Studies in Criticism and Contemporary Culture of the same institution, the Visual Arts Program at UFRGS, and the Comparative Literature Research Group of the National Association of Postgraduate Programs in Literature and Linguistics.

Bio:

Maykson Cardoso (Divinópolis, MG, 1988) has been living in Berlin since 2018. He is a doctoral candidate in Visual Arts/Art History at UFRJ. His research focuses on the articulation of the motif of archaeology throughout the work of Walter Benjamin, from which he proposes an "archaeological" reading of the so-called "theses" from On the Concept of History (1940), as well as what he refers to as an “archaeology of violence/Gewalt”: a method of writing history based on the premise that the history of the defeated can only be written if the writer first dedicates themselves to analyzing the material remnants that testify to their existence, considering that historically, writing has always been a tool for legitimizing and maintaining the power of the victors.

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us to Pay Our Teachers, pay the rent, keep the lights on, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But! if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE

Day 2:

From the ruins of tradition to the debris of war: translation deviations and epistemological delimitations. Between German Tragic Drama (1928) and the [Theses] On the Concept of History (1940).

Class Description:

*This class will be taught in Portuguese.

The metaphor of archaeology as a metaphor for a [philosophical] method of analysis dates back to Kant and was later used by Freud, Benjamin, Husserl, Foucault, Agamben, among others. In the course “Walter Benjamin as Archaeologist,” we propose to go beyond — or perhaps fall short of! — this metaphor by articulating the motif of archaeology in the work of the German-Jewish philosopher, seeking to align it with the discipline of archaeology itself. Among other things, throughout the course, we question: if there is a Benjaminian archaeology, what would be the specificity of this archaeology?

We start from the central hypothesis that the program for a new writing of history, as outlined by Benjamin in “On the Concept of History” (1940), can only be carried out if we are first able to confront, as Archaeology does, the material remnants of the past — and in this case, those remnants left behind by the defeated. That is, a writing of history that does not rely exclusively on written documents — the primary object of History — since writing has historically [almost] always served the purpose of legitimizing and maintaining power and, therefore, the history of the victors.

The course is an initiative of the Graduate Program in Literature and Culture at UFBA, the Center for Studies in Criticism and Contemporary Culture of the same institution, the Visual Arts Program at UFRGS, and the Comparative Literature Research Group of the National Association of Postgraduate Programs in Literature and Linguistics.

Bio:

Maykson Cardoso (Divinópolis, MG, 1988) has been living in Berlin since 2018. He is a doctoral candidate in Visual Arts/Art History at UFRJ. His research focuses on the articulation of the motif of archaeology throughout the work of Walter Benjamin, from which he proposes an "archaeological" reading of the so-called "theses" from On the Concept of History (1940), as well as what he refers to as an “archaeology of violence/Gewalt”: a method of writing history based on the premise that the history of the defeated can only be written if the writer first dedicates themselves to analyzing the material remnants that testify to their existence, considering that historically, writing has always been a tool for legitimizing and maintaining the power of the victors.

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us to Pay Our Teachers, pay the rent, keep the lights on, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But! if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE

Language is My Second Language: Mother Tongues, Father Tongues, and Those-in-Between

Any time a group of people forms through the mutual adherence to a code, the strength of that group partly derives from the exclusion of those who don’t know or don’t practice the code. In this workshop, we will discuss texts and poems in translation to explore the dimensions of speaking and listening that transcend language’s coding function: the moments when speech is instinctual, receptive and tentative rather than self-affirming or group-affirming. 

Our conversation will also constitute an act of composition, translation and other creative means chosen by the participants who can contribute as they wish throughout the workshop as an alternative to “conversing” in the strict sense. In this way, “participation” is something we will interpret broadly, or re-interpret altogether. We will pose questions as to answer the meaning and function of mother tongues, father tongues, those that are invented and remain in-between or on the margins. 

Readings may include Anne Carson's Float, poems by Lorca (in translation) and others.

Languages may include Spanish, English, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, invented ones, and silence. 

Öykü Tekten is a poet, translator, archivist, and editor. She is also a founding member of Pinsapo, an art and publishing experience with a particular focus on work in and about translation, as well as a contributing editor and archivist with Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. She lives in Granada with her tabby cat from Brooklyn & travels with Anatolians to earn a living & is now visiting Gran Canaria in search of a cave dwelling.

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us to Pay Our Teachers, pay the rent, keep the lights on, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But! if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE

Day 1:

From the archaeologist’s dream to the allegory of excavation: introduction to the research + reading and discussion of the text “Excavate and Remember” (c. 1935) and other excerpts from the author.

Class Description:

*This class will be taught in Portuguese.

The metaphor of archaeology as a metaphor for a [philosophical] method of analysis dates back to Kant and was later used by Freud, Benjamin, Husserl, Foucault, Agamben, among others. In the course “Walter Benjamin as Archaeologist,” we propose to go beyond — or perhaps fall short of! — this metaphor by articulating the motif of archaeology in the work of the German-Jewish philosopher, seeking to align it with the discipline of archaeology itself. Among other things, throughout the course, we question: if there is a Benjaminian archaeology, what would be the specificity of this archaeology?

We start from the central hypothesis that the program for a new writing of history, as outlined by Benjamin in “On the Concept of History” (1940), can only be carried out if we are first able to confront, as Archaeology does, the material remnants of the past — and in this case, those remnants left behind by the defeated. That is, a writing of history that does not rely exclusively on written documents — the primary object of History — since writing has historically [almost] always served the purpose of legitimizing and maintaining power and, therefore, the history of the victors.

The course is an initiative of the Graduate Program in Literature and Culture at UFBA, the Center for Studies in Criticism and Contemporary Culture of the same institution, the Visual Arts Program at UFRGS, and the Comparative Literature Research Group of the National Association of Postgraduate Programs in Literature and Linguistics.

Bio:

Maykson Cardoso (Divinópolis, MG, 1988) has been living in Berlin since 2018. He is a doctoral candidate in Visual Arts/Art History at UFRJ. His research focuses on the articulation of the motif of archaeology throughout the work of Walter Benjamin, from which he proposes an "archaeological" reading of the so-called "theses" from On the Concept of History (1940), as well as what he refers to as an “archaeology of violence/Gewalt”: a method of writing history based on the premise that the history of the defeated can only be written if the writer first dedicates themselves to analyzing the material remnants that testify to their existence, considering that historically, writing has always been a tool for legitimizing and maintaining the power of the victors.

Invitation For Lecture #1 of seven:

Magic is about Manipulating Movement, it is the [dis]Tortion of Time. In many ways it's the Conjuring of Coincidence, the Orchestration of Accident.

Let's endorse our errors with a Hummus Habibi <3

*Note: The lecture will be in Spanish and in English.

Rasheed Jalloul is a Lebanese architect poet and composer based in Barcelona. In an attempt to intertwine the disciplines of architecture and music, Rasheed’s artistic research explores gravity as a moderator of geometry, “a metronome of form”. His work attempts to uncover new and unconventional scales of understanding, derived from the integration of a synaesthetic language of architecture and music, where spatial construction aligns with linguistic semantics.

His work has been exhibited and presented in various cultural centres and festivals such as MACBA (Barcelona), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Sheffield Doc Fest, Fundaci ó n Enric Miralles, Espai Barberi by RCR Arquitectes, La Infinita, Tecla Sala, Casa Eli z alde and the Free Music School in Barcelona.

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/rasheedjalloul/

ADMISSION TO ALL FREE MUSIC SCHOOL EVENTS IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN.

Your contributions help us to Pay Our Teachers, pay the rent, keep the lights on, and maintain and improve the material conditions of the Free Music School. But! if contributing cash isn’t possible, that’s okay! there are many ways to support. You can bring snacks, beverages, or simply offer your presence and energy. Or, organize with us a way to show, tell, and share what is important to you, what you are burning for. #STAYINTENSE