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IDIOFONA

IDIÒFONA invites people to share a common experience

Idiòfona is an attempt to make light of toughness, to find harmony amidst noise, and to build a common vibration. Above all, it is an ode to the pleasure of shared experience. Idiòfona is a conversation between man and material, during which an extensive sound installation is built in a public space with the participation of the audience.

Those of you who are not musicians or students of the subject may not know what an idiophone is. This word lends the present show its name, and refers to instruments which produce sound through the vibration of instrument itself, without the use of strings. Taking this concept as a starting point, and with the aim of bringing together notions of community, material and space, Joan Català offers a show which invites spectators chosen at random to lend a helping hand.

Idiòfona, is a metallic-poetic odyssey of a destiny cast in iron, of a born explorer fleeing from the path imposed on them. Idiòfana tells of their betrayal of tradition in order to forge another, their own.

Joan Català Carrasco (1978) is a curious observer interested in the plastic and movement arts in which the body and/or the objects are communicators. He understands the scene as a space for dialogue between humans, objects and the environment where game and work melt together with the tools, experiences and ideas that each of us bring. In 2012 he started to develop its own perspective around scenic arts focused on street and urban landscapes. The result was the show Pelat, premiered at Fira Tàrrega 2013. The show is still on, programmed all around and celebrating 10 years of sucessful touring n 2024. In 2016 Menar is released at Fira Tàrrega, a duet created together with Roser Tutusaus. In 2023 Joan Català presented Idiòfona.