him I might be interested in working with videos though.
very much, for although I had always liked to listen to it, I had never seriously tried to play it . Then I left it (maybe because I was afraid to engage in it, for it is a very difficult instrument indeed) and came back to piano. Instead, when I returned from Galicia and I found I didn’t have one once again, I ended up playing trumpet.
This festival was also made in Madrid and its third edition in Barcelona had to do with food. There were scores on acid, spicy and sweet basis, with even cooks present (Alfredo, for instance is very good at it). While the artists played, the public, once again composed by two people (maybe three, I am not sure of it), was tasting the food the scores suggested. Unfortunately the festival didn’t continue: Lionel went to live elsewhere and the idea was lost. What a shame.
Yet how did I come to improvisation? When I lived in Galicia, Pedro Lopez, my drums teacher coming from Madrid, andWade Matthews (two musicians who at the beginning took part in Musicalibre, improvisation group from Madrid) began to talk me about all that, making my interest rise. When I came back to Barcelona, I started wandering around to have a look on the scenario, and I realized it was very bad. One day Pedro came to play with me and I told him how terrible the situation in Barcelona was. In response, he suggested me to followLEM di Gràcia, which was then at its beginnings. Suddenly, during a weekend LEM appeared: in a single
Barbara Sansone: So, you were studying at the academy if music…
night three concerts half an hour long were performed, each in a different bar, one after one. And people could decide how many shows to attend to. Apart from this, LEM appeared and disappeared, was there and then it was not there anymore. But I liked that format very much.
Ruth Barberán: Yes I was, but then I came to live in Galicia, where I quit studying piano because I didn’t have one. A trumpeter gave me a trumpet he was not using, along with some lessons. That’s how I began playing my current instrument. I enjoyed it
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