Santiago Vazquez on Rhythm with Signs | Brussels, with Sysmo

Rhythm with Signs or Ritmo Con Senas as named by its creator Santiago Vazquez (Buenos Aires, Argentina), is a sign language specifically dedicated to the practice of instant composition. Santiago created the language in 2006 for his group La Bomba de Tiempo, quickly becoming an inescapable cultural and social phenomenon in Buenos Aires. Rhythm with Signs is a language of 120 gestures allowing a conductor to communicate with a group of musicians to guide them in a spontaneous and collective creation: instant composition. In real time and with great precision, the conductor specifies with gestures the context (tone, rhythmic signature, tempo, subdivision, etc.), the roles (clave, solo, base, comments, proposition, etc.), the structure ( breaks, memories, calls and answers, etc.) and applies effects (delays, filters, etc.). The ensemble lends itself to a liberating game, which questions our collective dynamics, our actions and our freedom, and opens the way to a new collective learning of music, at all levels of the process. In May 2012, Augustin de Bellefroid and Mauro Sarachian traveled to Buenos Aires to study the Rhythm Signé, and founded Sysmo on their return to Brussels, the first European group to use the language, and participates with Santiago Vazquez in its expansion. http://www.sysmo.be   / officialsysmo   http://www.santiagovazquez.com/