An opera about capital and territory. Town planning is an appropriation of the human and natural environment by capitalism, which, logically developing as a form of absolute dominance, may recreate the totality of space as its own backdrop. Guy Debord
An electro-acoustic documentary opera in which the set takes centre stage, and the libretto derives from a range of quotes taken from discourses critical of the neo-liberal policies that create deregulated societies immersed in the endless spiral of production, consumption and accumulation.
Images recorded at Algeciras Bay
Direction: José Luis Tirado
Original score: Fran M.M. Cabeza de Vaca
Editing and post-production: Manuel P. Vargas
Cameras: Martina Aguirre, Antonio Pérez, Félix Rojo
Infography: Cristina Olmo
Sound: Ariadna Castells
Production: María Piñeiro
Documentation: Javier Gil, Juan José Téllez, Mar Villaespesa
Solo performers: Paloma Carrasco (violoncello, piano), Mateo Martínez (violin)
2010 Composition Workshop Ensemble, from the Higher Conservatoire of Music of Aragon
Xabier Olazábal (accordion), Aitor Roger (horn), Daniel Vergara (horn), Vicente Luis Ivorra (trumpet), Rubén Navarro (trumpet), Santiago Novoa (trombone), Cesar Roig (trombone), Laura Fernández (piano), Miguel Pisonero (piano), Daniel Buendía (piano), Antonio García (violoncello), Francisco Javier Cordero (double bass), Nacho de Paz (conductor)
Libretto: quotes from Federico Aguilera, Rachel Louise Carson, Guy Debord, Jacques Donzelot, David Harvey, Agustín Hernández Aja, Serge Latouche, Henri Lefebvre, Nerea Morán, Lewis Mumford, José Manuel Naredo, Jacques Rancière, Jorge Riechmann, Raquel Rolnik, Saskia Sassen, Edward W. Soja, Michael Sorkin.
Acknowledgements: Luis Andrés Zambrana, Ezequiel Andreu, Carlos Barba, Alberto C. Bernal, José María Caballero, María de la Lastra, Francisco del Río, Juan Antonio Domingo, Santiago Eraso, Rafael García de la Cuadra, Isaías Griñolo, José Jiménez Bocanegra, Héctor Parra, Beatriz Poncela, Pedro Quijano, Fernando Pereg, Víctor Regueira, Jorge Riechmann, Manolo Rojas, Lola Rosa, José María Sánchez Verdú, Marta Soler, José Luis Tetuán, Asociación Gaditana para la Defensa de la Naturaleza (AGADEN), Cajasol Obra Social, Turmares Tarifa, UNIA arteypensamiento.
English translation: Josephine Watson
