Concert
Imaginary Landscapes
|T//E//A//R//S|
Author: Lautaro Figueroa Balcarce
Nationality: Argentine and Italian
Flute: Emma Chersich
Clarinet: João Vitor Mendes
Violin: Ivan Maliienko
Type of Artwork: Live A/V performance, mixed media
Year of Production: 2024-2025
Duration: 14’41
|T//E//A//R//S| is a nightmarish retrotech performance inspired by the aesthetics of survival horror video games. Three performers navigate a deteriorating digital environment that is equal parts machine, flesh, and memory. Their physicality intertwines with the system, producing movements that seem both forced and instinctive. A sense of sorrow permeates their actions as they react to enigmatic signals, engage in repetitive tasks, and twitch like echoes of forgotten routines. This is a performance of ritual and rupture, where survival becomes a choreography, and even melancholy is part of the mechanism.
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Artist bio
Lautaro Figueroa Balcarce is a composer from Argentina, born in Buenos Aires in 1995. He obtained his degree in composition at the National University of Arts [U.N.A.] in Argentina under the guidance of Santiago Santero and studied privately with Luis Mucillo. He later completed a master ‘s degree in composition at the Hochschule der Künste Bern [HKB] in Switzerland, where he studied with Simon SteenAndersen and Xavier Dayer. His music has been performed in various venues across Argentina, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States, including The National Opera America Center, Maison de l’Argentine in Paris, UMass Amherst, Zentrum Paul Klee, La Biblioteca Nacional Argentina, and El Centro Cultural San Martín. These performances have been brought to life by renowned performers such as Mivos Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Le Concert Idéal, Odile Auboin, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, Unheard-of Ensemble, and many others. Among the distinctions he has received are three grants awarded by the Mozarteum Argentino, winning the composition competition organized by ESTA Switzerland on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, and the “Music Current Commission for 2024” awarded by Dublin Sound Lab.