FMUC offers four concerts, the first being this Friday with the new creation of the Tenerife-born Francis Hernández

 

The Auditorio de Tenerife welcomes the Contemporary Music Festival programme, FMUC, which begins this Friday (7th) at 7:30 p.m. in the Chamber Hall with Texturas, the new creation of Tenerife's composer Francis Hernández. The rest of the activities and concerts will take place next week. Tickets can be purchased at a single price of €10 and €5 for the audience under 30 years of age. Other discounts, such as a subscription ticket for all four concerts for €30, are also available.

Texturas is a work commissioned by Auditorio de Tenerife for this festival. For its creator, "textures play a crucial role in art in conveying sensations and meanings; they can have visual and tactile connotations that impact how we perceive a piece of art".

This composition aims to reflect different sensations through a symbiosis of music and image, with auditory and visual perception as the scope of action. This symbiosis will consist of typical textures in the environment, which the audience can interact with at specific moments in the visual part through an interactive project with Stable Diffusion, a generative artificial intelligence model that creates images. Thus, the entire hall will be transformed into a creative and interactive space at specific moments of the concert.

This work is the brainchild of Francis Hernández and Dea Woon Kang. Paco Díaz, director of FMUC, is also involved in the stage direction and staging of the entire musical component. Students from the Professional Music Conservatoire of the Canary Islands will perform the score.

The rest of the activities will continue on Wednesday (12th) at 5:30 p.m. in the Sala Puerto with a meeting of the composers Francis Hernández, Celia Rivero, Rubens Askenar and Nino Díaz, which will lead a concert with premiere works by these Canarian creators, also commissioned by the Auditorio de Tenerife.

On Thursday (13th), the San Sebastian trio Zukan will offer their special blend of percussion, accordion and txistu (type of Basque flute). Lastly, FMUC closes this edition with the percussion concert Tak Nara, comprised of Verónica Cagigao and Andrea Domínguez, who will perform Dualismos. All concerts will take place in the Chamber Hall at 7:30 p.m.

The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m. There are discounts for students, unemployed and large families.