Paisaje con incendio, a frieze for orchestra by Juan Manuel Artero

The 'landscape with fire' had its brief splendour at the end of the 18th century, and apart from the drama represented, its interest lay in allowing the painters to experiment with the shadows and reflections projected by a light coming from the interior of the painting, giving the flames a phantasmagoric character to figures and objects.
In front of one of these works, imaginary, is presented as a mirror this music. Scene of the scene, simulation separated from the original and made audible, an unravelling mirror. A sound space in which various musical figures are arranged and transformed according to a logic that is almost cinematographic.
Rather like a metaphor, this musical narrative stages stylised objects, phonograms in constant transformation, barely recognisable, which unfold according to concepts that work by mental associations and are not far removed from the events that surround our lives. Thus, music oscillates like a Proustian character between a natural landscape and an abstract architecture; between sentimental adventure and ideas.
Music or monocle: the world behind.