WITHOUT A SCORE. Educational concerts for Violin, Percussion, Body and Voice

The main focus of this event, part of the celebrations for International Museum Day, is to introduce primary school pupils to contemporary art and ignite their curiosity.

When we come across a work of art—be it a painting, a sculpture, music or dance—a number of questions may arise: What does this mean? What are the artists trying to tell us? Do I understand this piece? Is this work good or bad? Is this art? When it comes to contemporary art, these and other questions arise even more frequently. But ... and if the problem lies in the questions? In this concert, we suggest taking the opposite approach: we’ll show how artists work from the very beginning of a piece, focusing not on the final result, but on the initial impulse behind the work, and the process itself. It will be a multidisciplinary concert, with some ensemble members coming from non-musical backgrounds. Treating the body as yet another instrument, we’ve invited four musicians and two dancers to join this ensemble.

The concert is structured around the avant-garde technique of Soundpainting, devised by Walter Thompson as a tool for real-time composition. The director will communicate with the group using a specific sign language that will be used both to improvise sounds and movements and to create a scene. The intensity, duration, emotion, volume, style, movements, use of space, and the elements or people involved will be determined by a combination of gestures that the audience will gradually come to recognise.

The audience will have the opportunity to witness the creation of various pieces first-hand and to take part in the composition process in an engaging, hands-on and dynamic way.

The members of this sextet are María José Pámpano (violin), LAR Legido (percussion and sound objects), Estefanía Gómez and Alba Fernández Cotelo (body in movement), Rubén Fernández (vocals) and Xacobe Martínez Antelo (director).

MARÍA JOSÉ PÁMPANO combines musical performance with research and cultural management. Violinist and violist and fiddler trained at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Vigo, with a specialisation in historically informed performance on early music instruments from the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Porto, she has built a career characterised by versatility and artistic activity. She leads initiatives such as Concerto das Donas and is a member of groups such as Orquestra Galega de Liberación, Ensemble Liberdade or Suelen Estar Quartet, a pioneer in free improvisation using classical instruments.

LAR LEGIDO combines drumming with free improvisation and sound exploration. He trained at the Centro de Encuentro para el Desarrollo de la Improvisación (CEDI) in Madrid and focuses his work on experimentation. Pioneer of free improvisation in Galicia, he founded the Parto group and has developed projects such as Aquófono. He has collaborated in the creation of the Centro de Novas Tecnoloxías do Pico Sacro and the Orquestra de Música Espontánea de Galicia (O.M.E.G.A.). With a busy artistic schedule, he combines his teaching work with concerts and performances, exploring unconventional approaches to drumming in projects such as Sumrrá or Malandrómeda.

ESTEFANÍA GÓMEZ and ALBA FERNÁNDEZ COTELO combine dance with the performing arts. Galician dancers, choreographers and teachers, they have directed the Compañía de Danza Exire since 2016. With extensive experience in contemporary and urban dance, they founded their company after years of working in the Galician performing arts scene, creating their own pieces and collaborating with other companies and organisations.

RUBÉN FERNÁNDEZ is a vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He holds a Higher Degree and a Master’s Degree, specialising in jazz, from the ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya). He has extensive experience in performance, improvisation and composition within the fields of performance and the performing arts throughout Spain and Europe. He teaches at several conservatoires specialising in modern and jazz music in Galicia.

XACOBE MARTÍNEZ ANTELO is a musician, entrepreneur and cultural activist. With an eclectic and self-taught background, he’s contributed to over fifty recordings spanning genres from jazz, rock, traditional music and theatre to world music. He’s been a key figure on the Galician music scene for the past twenty-five years, and has been organising educational concerts and masterclasses for over twenty years as part of his outreach work. His projects include Sumrrá, Orquestra Galega de Liberación, Martelo and the musical and sound direction of the Grupo Chévere.

TARGET AUDIENCE
School groups from the first and second cycles of primary education.

REGISTRATION
The registration period will be open from 14 April to 12 May 2026. Schools interested in taking part should send an email to cgac.educacion@xunta.gal containing the following details: name of the school, number of participants, school year or age, telephone number, email address and the name of the person responsible for the group.
Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and the schools that submitted applications will be notified of the status of their submissions via email.