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http://sjmusart.org/exhibition/border-cantos-richard-misrach-guillermo-galindo

Interview with Guillermo Galindo discussing his (and Richard Misrach) multi faceted project and exhibition “Border Cantos”.

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Circular Calls/Resonant Shadows is a quartet by Guillermo Galindo using instruments made from items found in the Mexico/ US border including personal belongings of immigrants.

Ensemble is formed by: Guillermo Galindo- string, percussion and wind instruments, Paula Cekola- percussion and wind instruments, Joel Davel- Percussion, Tom Dambly- wind and percussion instruments.

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending 50’s and 60’s retro fashion, greasy food, immoral dances, contagious rhythms, hedonism, sex, borracheras and unnecessary violence. They’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing their rascuache morals. They’re uncontrollable. But some, like artists Vazquez and Galindo I assume, are good people.” — Donald Trump. Grrrr!…Gustavo Vazquez + gal*in_dog (Guillermo Galindo) reunite to present the 20/20 sound/visual pus-retro Mexican rendevouz (Estar Guars Too). Bootleg illegal movies, telenovelas, invade the USA. Suggestive dances and mambo erupts into transcendental techno cunnilingus y puro reventón. El sound galindog y el video Vazquez collide with the percussive rhythms of AK 47s as Trompitas cries for help.

Guillermo Galindo: Moog guitar + electronics

Lisa Sangita Moskow: Electric Sarod

Circular Calls/Resonant Shadows is a new composition for ensemble by Guillermo Galindousing instruments made from items found in the Mexico/ US border including personal belongings of immigrants.

Ensemble is formed by: Guillermo Galindo- string, percussion and wind instruments, Paula Cekola- percussion and wind instruments, Joel Davel- Percussion, Tom Dambly- wind and percussion instruments.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/arts/resonance/calendar/guillermo-galindo

Guillermo Galindo’s artistic work blurs the conventional limits that define both music and the art of music composition itself. His artwork is seen in Border Cantos: Sight & Sound Explorations from the Mexican-American Border, on view at Crystal Bridges through April 24. The exhibition includes sculptural instruments built from immigrants’ personal belongings found at the Mexican-American border. Circular Calls/Resonant Shadows  is a new composition for ensemble using these instruments.The ensemble includes Galindo on string, percussion, and wind instruments; Paula Cekola on percussion and wind instruments; Joel Davel on percussion; and Tom Dambly on wind and percussion instruments. Galindo’s compositions have been performed and shown at major festivals, concert halls, and art exhibits throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Artinfusion Members are invited to an exclusive artinfusion Insight with the artist from 6 to 7 p.m.

Sponsored by Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, Demara Titzer, and JTH Productions.

$10 ($8 for Members)- register online or with Guest Services.

Border Cantos: Sight & Sound Explorations from the Mexican-American Border

Richard Misrach | Guillermo Galindo
February 18 – April 24, 2017

Migration has an impact on both people and landscape. Border Cantos, a unique collaborationbetween American photographer Richard Misrach and Mexican composer Guillermo Galindo, harnesses the power of art to explore, share, and humanize the complex issues surrounding the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. The artists created works of photography, sculpture, and sound that document and transform artifacts from the border. Misrach’s large-scale photographs, along with inventory-like grids of smaller photographs, highlight issues surrounding immigration and how they have affected regions and people. Responding to these photographs, Galindo fashioned sound-generating sculptures from items Misrach collected from the border, such as water bottles, Border Patrol “drag tires,” spent shotgun shells, ladders, and sections of the border wall itself. The sounds they produce give voices to people through the personal belongings they have left behind.