Airphonic Suite

Electronic & experimental music playlists.

A space within Spotify in which our collectors, colleagues and collaborators introduce us to their #visionColector. A personal perspective and foreign reading to what we conceive in our gallery as a soundtrack.

The reason for the name of this series is to honor the pioneer in electronic music, Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger. Unlike his more famous contemporaries, Schillinger was a natural teacher and communicated his musical knowledge in the form of a precise written theory, using mathematical expressions to describe art, architecture, design and (most insistently, and with most detail and success) music. His mathematical principles were applied to various fields other than music.

Joseph Schillinger wrote his First Airphonic Suite for Léon Theremin, who played the instrument originally known as the ætherphone, thereminophone or thereminvox (is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact) at the premiere in 1929 with the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Nikolai Sokoloff.

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KUNSTHALLE

In medieval education, students pursued the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, and logic) and the quadrivium (music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy), a total of 7 subjects, collectively known as the liberal arts. This three-act structure playlist is used as a model in narrative fiction that divides a story into three parts (acts), often called the setup, the confrontation, and the resolution. All this has been taken into account for creating content in order to have ups and downs, as it happens in any soundtrack.

Our director/curator in chief Jesús Alberto a.k.a. KRSTO started as an independent art dealer at age 25. While growing this endeavor into a well-established network for secondary market dealings, he assisted numerous renowned artists like Jan Hendrix (mounting his solo show at Museo MARCO) and aided Teresa Margolles in Beijing (for the Venice Biennale). He created K², a space to promote emerging national artists. Shortly afterwards, he collaborated with the University of Monterrey for a year as an exhibition curator at the Roberto Garza Sada Center for Art, Architecture and Design. Later, he ventured with two exhibitions in London and one more in Paris. After also being part of the Santa Lucia Festival in Monterrey and transforming Circuito Plastico (a kind of gallery weekend with free transportation between art centers) to PreMACO Mty, he created 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿; representing young and mid-career Latin American artists, as well as established international artists working in all media.

We decided to use a character in Mexican master Germán Venegas painting that addresses the passage to the spiritual and divine through wisdom, meditation and asceticism.

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DULCE INFERNO

This 6th approach at AirphonicSuite comes in the Life Path number teaching that you are primarily accountable to yourself, that family members and relatives do not own each other, and that love thrives when it is able to flow freely in all directions.
Although @dulce____inferno accompanies herself whenever she comes to the gallery with her identical twin (both fashion models), in the image and likeness, they hold differences in style, ideals, and in this particular case, music.

"A voice... rumbles in my mind. It begins to speak at the least inopportune moments. I don’t know where it comes from. It just speaks. And it reminds me that in order to save myself, I must destroy first me I was told to be. Let go of fear and encourage me to burn. Make my inferno, a sweet inferno. " - @dulce____inferno

Her playlist is a busy bit of chattery house-come-electro that is wired up with many melody lines and lush strings. Further on is a much more frazzled and an aggressive bit of techno with raw, slapping percussion, gurgling synth lines, and plenty of dystopian electro vibes. It closes things out in a beautifully serene style with ambient swirling pads, organic synths, and a curious bassline that rises and falls like the tide.

For her avatar, we found Erik Bendix's painting "SuckerPunch" to resemble the battle with thyself. In fiction and mythology, a doppelgänger is often portrayed as a ghostly or paranormal phenomenon and usually seen as a harbinger of bad luck.

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THE KNIT

Number 5 symbolizes curiosity and freedom and change and represents the five senses of humanity. There are constant activity and curiosity about life for the 5 vibrations.

Oscillating between magic and Logic, Miralda Sandoval Sampogna has developed several projects that narrate a style and a form of being and doing things; from anecdotical reflections that meets aesthetical interrogations on her personal production to creating, developing, and commercially executing Brands. An art enthusiast that has participated in Group Exhibitions in galleries like no-automático or Metropolitan Museum of Tampico, to have launched Amstel beer in Mexico or being Sol’s Brand Manager for Heineken Mexico achieving an out of the box way to build Brands. Nowadays, founder of Mandibula Creative Management, a studio that develops brands as a service, and Misasam, the way she now clusters all efforts and processes of her personal opinion and production.

A black and white, full of spikes, stitches, and spiders, music enthusiast vía @SampognaRecords and flavor chaser in the wine and dine sport.

For her avatar, we took a Zhivago Duncan painting that shows his own interpretation of the origin of everything, it is a creation myth that he formulated himself, which is divided into chapters: it begins in chaos and ends in harmony; it is a metaphor for life. Duncan's canvases represent imaginary worlds, like microscopic views or giant universes, where geometric meanings are interconnected and architecture takes on philosophical values.

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INTRINSIC FIREFLY

Number 4 tends to be conservative and protective, with a strong sense of dignity and worthiness. Its rewards come because of patience, service, persistence, hard work, and dependability.

Spotify user Salvador Gállego created a playlist for this series of exhibitions while he had in mind a phrase from Agnes Pelton's exhibition book: Desert Transcendentalist. "Perhaps the conscious life of trees speaks more clearly before dark, as the flowers then give out more perfume. Occasionally a little drop of rain fell on me, which accentuated the lovely quietness, --quite futile to try to describe it-- but these moments were among the loveliest I ever remember to have these experienced..."

The avatar that will take his place in this post is one of Angela Leyva´s small portraits that becomes a dialogue between art and science. Angela uses painting to create portraits that are sustained by the narratives of individuals and their particularities. Her work opens a new look at the subject, previously veiled by clinical discourse and which now focuses, through her paintings, on science fiction.

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FORKED TONGUE

Number 3 is considered the Mistress of Geometry because the triangle is the principal of figures, so is our third report. Spotify user Maurizio Terracina created a playlist for us based on "Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence" by English ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley.

Maurizio is a Mexican-Italian artist, producer, musician, composer and audio engineer born in Germany. He is best known for his work with different projects of the Mexican independent music scene. He has been the leader of some of the most eclectic musical lineups, not only in Mexico, but in Latin America. Nobody has the lyrics that his many alter egos strums, omnipotent lyrics, that deal with human psyche and esoteric connotations. No one has so many cultural and literary references and no one maintains that energy on stage.

Terracina proves to be one of the most educated and complete artists on the Mexican music scene, with the mettle of a professional reader and the voice of a Masonic orator, who traces the course of his projects as a poem, a conspiracy conjecture, a pamphlet of death and pain, a sighting or the roar of nothingness, the cacophony, the voice of a ghost, the groan of the dead, the dark finger of Faust in a book by Goethe. All this, adorned under the Masonic moral code, the one that in its first point tends to adore the great Architect of the Universe.

We all agreed that his avatar for his Airphonic Suite post would be one of Ricardo Gonzalez's dark pieces celebrating a recurrence of Art Brut invoking a character all too familiar that is deep rooted in our collective unconscious.

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BLACK HOLE

On this 2nd Airphonic Suite report, Spotify user Kalexis engendered the BLACK HOLE playlist referencing for time, space, and the self. The concept of time to measure the duration of events is not only deeply intuitive, it also plays an important role in our mathematical descriptions of physical systems.

Lost in time, something gone, inexplicable and puzzling... over the past however-long-it’s-been since we stopped leaving our houses, we have completely lost all sense of it. When did the days start feeling so long, or do they feel short? It looks at how self-consciousness exploits these abilities and thinking about space and time. Discussing at length the relation between self-consciousness and the first person and how fundamental the first individual is in ordinary thought.

Music producer / dj Kalexis is one of the Mexican women who have made us dance non-stop and has conquered the most demanding booths in Mexico. She has been in New York City for the past 3 years expanding her interest and place on the scene as a DJ and developing her own musical productions sharing booth with DJs like Sascha Funke, Rebolledo, Moderna, Justin Strauss, Mike Simonetti to name a few. Her sound is the product of influences from disco, new wave, post punk and experimental music mixing between genres such as Dark Disco, House, and Techno.

Kalexis agreed with us to utilize this avatar for her identity, is a character introduced in Yui Sakamoto’s Dali-like painting. While some see rabbits as timid and fearful, fragile little ones, others consider them cunning and resourceful animals. Rabbits only drive on forward and do not step back, so they have been considered lucky as a symbol of advancement.

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PURPLE

On this 1stpresentation, Spotify user Garcia84r generated the PURPLE playlist that manifests the relationship between the private and public spheres, and how we find freedom in both. Initially, our collector finds it easier to be fully uninhibited and embodied in the safety of his own home. But it feels two dimensional, like an old painting.

He discovered that a perhaps more transformative experience of intimacy exists in finding freedom within a crowd. In his playlist, he finds layered versions of himself, layers of vulnerability.

Garcia84r wanted an avatar for the configuration of his image in this post and decided to use one of Horacio Quiroz's portraits for it, being one of the artists he most admires in his collection provided by Colector.

"It is a reflection on the human condition [...]. I see the body as a mechanism that not only works physiologically, but as an emotional vessel that contains all of our temporal and spiritual history ”. - Horacio Quiroz