The audience slowly moved along the village paths at dusk, guided by music and a lighting intervention that turned the act of walking into an essential part of the artistic experience. Landscape, traditional architecture, and live sound ceased to be separate elements and instead formed a single performative gesture.

The proposal combined early music performed on theorbo, instrumental interventions along the route, and a visual action accompanying the audience’s movement between the hórreo and the church. More than a concert, it became a collective experience where walking, listening, and looking belonged to the same dramaturgy.

Days later, the experience was captured in a narrative published by the cultural magazine Hombre Superfluo, which sensitively described what was lived that night in Leiguarda:

«Josefina had left the piano and was holding Eliot, their barely one-year-old son, who observed everything without a future able to discern anything of what he saw. Still, I want to believe that what he experienced will help him understand as an adult what truly matters: the peace of hearing his father’s music or his mother’s smile. He will not remember me, nor his distant gaze with the pacifier in his mouth, thinking: “who is this?”. It would be beautiful if in the future the baby took on his parents’ legacy and continued organizing the same music festival, ever more classical thanks to the passage of time.

After it ended, we were able to talk with Pepe, Josefina, and the rest of the musicians while eating vegetarian empanada and drinking cider under the family hórreo.

If months ago we experienced the dream of a winter night, we returned to the original dream of a summer night, thanks to a new and thoughtful proposal by Noe. On the way home, we saw from afar the luminous spheres resting on the wall where we had left them. They would turn off by themselves during the early morning.»

«Pepe told us that during the COVID pandemic, Guillermo and Josefina bought the family house and since then have organized this classical music festival called ADAR. They exchanged New York City for a small Asturian village, he a flutist and she a pianist.

Shortly before reaching the church of Leiguarda, we were surprised by an image resembling a giant spider web about ten meters high that turned out to be a projection prepared by Guillermo onto a tree, confirming the artist’s versatility Pepe had mentioned.

We placed all the luminous spheres in the chapel’s atrium and entered. In the middle of the empty church, concrete cores used in mining surveys over a circle of earth symbolized the search for the mother vein, also resembling a cleared forest.»

«We also had an advantage: we knew she lived in Leiguarda and only had to look at them both to understand that more than father and daughter, they seemed twins: their gestures, the way they walked, their principles, their kindness.

Before listening to Josefina at the piano, we had been surprised by pieces played on a Baroque instrument I did not know called theorbo. It resembles a lute but with a very long neck like a sitar. It was played by Nacho, a young musician who would not feel out of place on TikTok, in a Caravaggio painting, at Lincoln Center, or inside the tiny hórreo where his instrument barely fit.

We continued walking under the Asturian drizzle doing its thing on a somewhat closed night. The lights guided us like torches, resembling Fernando Alfaro’s journey of redemption:

Look at that line of torches following one another on a lunar journey…

As we left the space where we had just heard Arabesque No. 1, we ran into Pepe. I was holding a large luminous sphere that I had to carry through Leiguarda along with ten other volunteers.

We went out to hear Almudena play the viola. After applauding again, we were finally able to solve the mystery.

Pepe did not recognize us, but Noe pointed out that Cris has only one father, but many friends.»

Artistic details

Musicians
Nacho Laguna (theorbo)
Jone de la Fuente (violin)
Almudena Arribas (viola)
Guillermo Laporta (flute)
Diego Arribas (visual artist)