INSIDEOUTSIDEINSIDE

What is a room? Where does it start and where does it end? How does it feel? How does it sound, when you take it with you and try to come back to it, again and again?

insideoutsideinside is a research solo project by trumpeter and performer Pablo Giw, related to and developed through several site specific visits to places with special acoustic qualities.

originally planned to be also a series of site-specific recordings, it quickly turned out to be a research based on the individual experience of visiting different spaces and translating them into an internal process of musical creation, distant from the space itself.

Spaces can function like an extension to the body, triggering all the senses so that the perception of the self becomes a different one, even so that the room / space itself becomes one and vice-versa.

I was interested to observe myself when visiting these different rooms and spaces, feeling this process of extension, as well as returning to the spaces afterwords, inside of my mind and body. Especially the latter was a very deep and interesting experience, trying to return to the sensual state of the specific room/space that I was trying to “remember” in performing.

Another topic that I kept returning to was the concept of “center” when spending time in certain spaces or rooms. Sometimes aligned with the architecture, sometimes apart from it, I ran into the feeling of finding points of alignement, that seemed to concentrate many vectors and energy of the space. This also could be an abstract or imaginary center point in the mind. When creating the music to the spaces, I kept coming back to these center points, or points of attention. They functioned like sources of inspiration or ideas, or also like a spark to start a new state of consciousness.

The selection of four tracks that are released in this project incorporate these processes and observations and try to translate them into musical and tonal qualities.

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