Proyecto EVOCA
(Exploración de la Vocalidad y la Oralidad del Canto Antiguo)
Photo: Josu Gastón
The EVOCA project (EVOCA for “Exploring the Vocality and the Orality in Early Song (Canto Antiguo)” in Spanish) was born in 2021 from the encounter of four singers interested on the medieval vocal repertoires, both by their aesthetic and the type of practices that are implied by singing them: oral tradition (with the common search of memorisation tools, vocality and temperaments); the polyphonic improvisation; the interpretation of ancient notations… Paloma Gutiérrez del Arroyo has been exploring these practices for years, and she carries on her way, now in company of Ana Arnaz, Èlia Casanova and Amparo Maiques.
From its beginning, the project has enjoyed the inestimable support of the Aula de Música (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid)*, the Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània (Valencia) and the French festival Voix et route romane (Alsace).
Nowadays (from November 2022 on), EVOCA has started an exciting research, in collaboration with the Prof. Carmen Julia Gutiérrez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), related to the interpretation of Old Hispanic chant and with the vocal gestures connected with the neumes that transcribe it: a five years long ERC project called RESOUND.
*EVOCA enjoied a 2 years long artistic residence (2021-2022) at this institution.
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EVOCA’s NEXT CONCERTS
31st October 2026, Proyecto EVOCA will be singing “Filie Tonitrui” in Basel (at the festival TEXTUR)
EVOCA’s PAST CONCERTS and ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES/RESIDENCIES
14th June 2026: Valencia, Sta Llùcia.
19th October 2024. Public exhibition with the work of the artistic residency in Hort-Art, Faura (Valencia) of Proyecto EVOCA and two collaborators: the dancer and musician Marc Vilajuana and the musician and artist Carolina Égüez (17th-19th October).
2nd March 2024: at the Església de l’Esperança, Barcelona, programmed by FCEC (Federació Catalana d'Entitats Corals).
1st-2nd July 2024: registering in an anechoic chamber for the Old Hispanic chant project “RESOUND”.
30th October 2023: Elche, at the Festival medieval d'Elx.
30th September 2023: Rumbach, programmed by the German festival Via Mediaeval.
24th June 2022, 19h30, public presentation of the work of the Proyecto EVOCA during its artistic residency since February 2021 enjoyed at the Aula de Música of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
6th November 2021, a concert with the Proyecto EVOCA in Alcalá de Henares (capilla de San Ildefonso) organised by the Aula de Música of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
4th september 2021, at the 11th c. church of Ottmarsheim (France), programmed by the 29th edition of the festival Voix et route Romane, first two concerts of the new “Proyecto EVOCA” (Exploración de la Vocalidad y la Oralidad del Canto Antiguo).
15th july 2021, 19h. Centre del Carme de Cultura Contemporanea, Valencia. Public presentation of my new project: Proyecto EVOCA, after some days of artistic residency in Valencia.
February 2021-November 2022, EVOCA enjoied a 2 years long artistic residence at the institution: Aula de Música of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
Working session during the artistic residency at the Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània (Valencia), July 2021
Concert at the 11th c. church of Ottmarsheim (Alsace, France), September 2021.
Concert at the San Ildefonso’s chapel (1516), University of Alcalá de Henares, November 2021. Photo: Juan Mantilla
February’s session of EVOCA’s renewed artistic residence (2022) at the Aula de Música of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares:
Photo: Antonio Rinaldi
Public presentation, in June 2022, of the work of the Proyecto EVOCA (Exploración de la Vocalidad y la Oralidad del Canto Antiguo) during its artistic residency since February 2021 enjoyed at the Aula de Música of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
Some more media:
Photo: Alberto Tallón
Photo: David Roig
During our artistic residency at the extraordinary Seu d’Ègara (Terrassa, Spain), in February 2023.
Autumn 2023: Concerts in Rumbach (Via Mediaeval) and Elche (Festival medieval d'Elx).
Photo: Andreas Winnwa
Photo: Joaquín de Haro - Festival Medieval de Elche
July 2024. Recording at the anechoic chamber of the Universidad Politécnica (RESOUND project, with UCM) with María Larrosa and Antonio Pedrero.
October 2024. Artistic residency in Hort-Art, Faura (Valencia) with two collaborators: the dancer and musician Marc Vilajuana and the musician and artist Carolina Égüez (17th-19th October).
Photos: Hort-Art, Belinda Alfonso
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El Proyecto EVOCA (Exploración de la Vocalidad y la Oralidad del Canto Antiguo) nace en 2021 del encuentro de cuatro cantantes interesadas por los repertorios medievales, tanto por su estética como por las prácticas nuevas implicadas en su trabajo: la tradición oral -con la búsqueda común de herramientas de memorización, de vocalidad y temperamentos-; la improvisación polifónica; la interpretación de notaciones antiguas… Paloma Gutiérrez del Arroyo lleva años explorando estas prácticas y continúa su camino, ahora en compañía de Ana Arnaz, Èlia Casanova y Amparo Maiques.
Desde su nacimiento, el proyecto ha gozado del apoyo inestimable por parte del Aula de Música de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), del Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània (Valencia) y del festival francés Voix et route romane (Alsacia).
Desde otoño 2022, EVOCA colabora con la Profesora Carmen Julia Gutiérrez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) en un proyecto de investigación sobre la interpretación del repertorio viejo hispánico (o “mozárabe”) y sobre la vocalidad ligada a los neumas característicos que lo notaron en los siglos IX-X.
Para ver vídeos del proyecto EVOCA: Multimedia
Photo: Josu Gastón