Award winning cuban musician Alejandro Vargas + Galician award winning writer and performer Xelís de Toro will be working together in residence here for one week with a work in progress show at the end. They will use sound, sound poetry and movement to explore an iconic and enigmatic Galician poetry book published in 1920s which they describe as ‘fells like meditation during a trip out to sea’ They have meticulously converted all the letters of the poems into numbers and then the numbers into musical notes. They will use these as starting points and throw a dice , using chance results to create new work. They will create their own acrobatic journey, crisscrossing arts to weave a tapestry of sounds (piano, synth, percussion), vocals (sounds and words) and movement.

Alejandro Vargas is multi-awarded Cuban musician resident in Galicia (Spain), receiving important jazz (Best Jazz record Cubadisco, 2008) and composition (Special award Cubadisco 2013) awards and has been journeying in recent years to a more experimental sound work. https://alejandrovargas.info/

Xelís de Toro is a Galician multi-awarded writer and performer based in the UK. He has worked in theatre, live art, performance as a solo artist, in a duo laboratoro and is the vocalist of the Brighton based band chopchop. https://xelisdetoro.net/