Discordian Community Ensemble is an open mutable group from Barcelona, that interconnects different improvising musicians for recitals and recordings, always using scores that display free and controlled improvisation. It was created by El Pricto on 12/21/2012 for the “Discordian Community Riot!!!”, a concert/event held by local record label Discordian Records. Since then they’ve released eight albums and have performed regularly in the Barcelonian underground musical circuit.

—

For this particular evening, DCE will perform a composition by El Pricto. The work is inspired on the life and art of Luigi Russolo, and consists of five movements displaying a fractal growth pattern, that makes each movement and their inner parts, expand continuously through time. Each movement is named after a different painting by Russolo, and features noise as the main sound material for each musical depiction of these paintings. The piece will be performed using a computer as a conducting device, in a conceptual attempt to portray the futurist ideal of spiritualizing the machine.