“Circular has a starting point: the respect for many musical forms and traditions which in most cases involved situations of introspection and reflection. Since ancient times music has accompanied (or was generated by) a large variety of vital events. Whether during festivities, forms of worship, concerts or as an expression of intellectual exercise, music is (almost) always present.

We also shared another impression. Many times, when listening to different pieces – above all with academic avantgarde music - we both felt that there were sonorous colors and gestures that occurred too rapidly. In the urge to respect the formal logic of the compositions or the more established musical languages, moments of great richness were lost (especially in terms of timber) which vanished in the blink of an eye before they could blossom.

 

There exists a broad array of musics ranging from very old ones to contemporary ones that share a trait that is very different from that immediacy we have mentioned. The first forms of polyphony in the Middle Ages, the harmonic flow of the Renaissance madrigals, the music of Erik Satie, John Cage and his thoughts on silence, and, of course, the minimalists.

 

Circular is also a project including interdisciplinary work between music and visual arts. Circular works with the concept of "soundpaintings", thinking in sounds not as simple commentary on images. Paintings and sounds are related and composed in the same process like a dialogue between different languages trying to reach a new and common ground. The paintings are gradually vanishing images and this visual focus displacement gives space to silence and pure color.

 

Many contemporary art has rejected spiritual resources but some artists and critics from last decades has claimed for the necessity to speak again about this ancient concern of man. Circular respects different spiritual and religious traditions and takes concepts from these sources in order to create a dialogue between the ancient and new, figurative and abstract, offering an environment open to contemplation.”

 

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