Ametsetan

Published by DEIA, Feb. 9, 2012




It is said that there is nothing that does not have a role in life. There are already several people in a short time that have told me that the dreams at night has no benefit for our brains, just saying, it´s worth nothing.

Sleep is much more than a break, it is also a fascinating show that our brain recreates in a means a movie screen without knowing very well with what object. But some argue that dreams allow us to exploit some of the amazing potential of our brain. Contrary to what one might think, it never rests, paradoxically maintains an index of activity well above normal while we sleep.

During sleep the mind is at its most peak and only one part is off, the core logic, what we might call "logic." Free from the shackles imposed by it, the brain can explore and analyze, using the dreams, all the experiences and knowledge gained during the day and classifying each experience in place. Not only that, but at that time that the "reasonable" is sometimes KO is when we get to create, to discern or resolve the doubts that beset us during the day by what we call inspiration or what is it that sometimes makes many loose ideas combine perfectly to give a solution which would otherwise hardly have been seen, because sometimes logic overshadows our imagination.

Perhaps caused by one of those dreams in which I was surrounded by a large orchestra that accompanied my triki, today I'm realizing this project as desired a while back, which invites me to wonder: what about all those dreams, projects, desires that make us be filled with enthusiasm to achieve them? Haven´t they been born in many of our dreams at night? Sometimes I think those of us how are dedicated in creating and realizing desires or dreams in which we live goes parallel to the road as indicated by our logic that we constantly unlearn, to make true the dream.

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Zentzuak

Published in DEIA Sept. 9, 2010


In this Aste Nagusia (The festivals of Bilbao) I have had opportunity to enjoy a night of fireworks aboard the Euskal Herria. While they exploded I thought about how spectacular that they were in the visual level and in how the human being is able to appreciate with his sight what surrounds him; so much that he has become his most important sense. But while the colors and different forms followed I thought about the little importance we give to our other senses. What would happen if to those fireworks we took their sound away? The vision would not be so spectacular and everything would get pretty much decaffeinated. What looked like the heart of the matter, it just so happens that it requires a fully-developed equilibrium with the other senses to achieve enjoying the event to its most. In the same way some days ago they emitted the concert that we offered in the Kursaal last February with the Euskadi´s Symphony Orchestra and me, for Caja Laboral´s 50th anniversary. I recorded it and seen it a couple days after. I really not like seeing myself in recordings or in television, not because of nothing in particular but because I like to live experiences to the fullest, feeling the whole possible intensity of the moment and when I see myself in any recording, I always feel a strange sensation. Perhaps is that lived moment was so spectacular that to remember makes me feel nostalgia about it and the sensation that what you see is somehow like a substitute of the same. Looking at the video I realize that what I see does not keep the intensity and the strength that I felt when I played those themes with the sound of the orchestra behind me. The image is perfect but the sound, the presence, the smell, sensations are not the same. I have always thought that the image was the most important thing and I realize now that nothing is indispensable and that each element, for as small and secondary that it seems, it is fundamental. Everything has a complicated equilibrium in the world and with the sight, the ear, and the sense of smell, tact or taste we can even enjoy the following step from summer to autumn, how fortunately lucky we are.


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ESTATUAK

April 9, 2010


In July 2001, the orchestra’s director, Daniel Barenboim, born in Buenos Aires, with Russian roots, being Spanish and Israeli Citizen, created a huge controversy by directing a musical by the German Composer Richard Wagner in Israel, being accused of pro-Nazi and fascist by some of the people. The worst of the conflicts is to be categorized by our fellow men, as into being good or bad under our sole judgment. The last example is what happened in Wigmore Hall, located in central London, where offered a concert in charged by the Jerusalem Quartet, consisting of musicians of the West-Eastern Divan, the famous orchestra of Daniel Barenboim in which brings together Arab and Israeli musicians. In 10 minutes after the beginning of the concert several persons belonging to a Pro-Palestinian group began to “break” the performance, under the grounds that the Quartet is a “cultural ambassador for Israel” carrying slogans against the occupation and the “apartheid state” that plagues the Palestinian people. I’m not going into judging the conflict itself. For many years this area of the world has been suffering like many others, a useless war, cruel and ruthless. And what I disagree is in the misuse, again, of categorizing the people. I do not think that these musicians are guilty of anything and less is the echo of a classical music concert is going against anyone’s rights. Besides this quartet that has worked closely with Daniel Barenboim, which is the first person in the world being Israeli and having an honorary Palestinian citizenship at the same time, after the concert in Ramallah in 2008, “I wish that my new status holds as example of Israeli-Palestinian coexistence,” said by Barenboim. But sometimes by ones or by others, the only thing conflicts do is to pollute and entangle everything they touch. I really do think that music is a tool to unite, an artistic expression that should be above all political ideals, religious or skin colors. Let us fight for it! No doubt we will succeed.

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ZIURTASUNA

February 25, 2010

Today, many people are heading to this type of belief, which is enacted that each one makes their own reality, the same as, what one thinks and believes in somehow designs what may become their future. I do think in a way there is a point to it but the true of the matter is a little bit more complicated than all that. It is true that there are times in life that one without knowing why feels the absolute security that what he thinks and wants will become reality. Something like the famous phrase, “faith can move mountains” but adapted to the XXI century. I’m a big admirer of the trikitixa or the diatonic accordion and the tambourine playing simultaneously. It’s simple but very powerful but at the same time I harbour a dream of those so called “impossible”. Tomorrow, Friday at the Kursaal Palace in San Sebastian and to mark the 50th anniversary of the Basque Bank, Caja Laboral I will share stage with the Euskadi´s Symphony Orchestra and a few friends who will accompany me on this important event. To step on stage and to feel the orchestra behind you, stirs up mixed feelings, on one hand the huge responsibility it holds but also the perfect opportunity to live the music intensely, trying to break barriers and experience a dream that seldom becomes true in the career of a traditional musician. I want to thank Caja Laboral for their efforts and also for remembering the Euskadi´s Symphony Orchestra as for me in such an important day. When I started in this music, at that time in which the diatonic accordion was considered a “humble” instrument, not to say some else, little could I image that years later I would see myself on stage accompanied by the maestros of Euskadi´s Symphony Orchestra to play my composed music, arranged of course for this occasion. In life there are lessons to be learned and not to be forgotten. One important is that complexes and limits, contrary to popular belief, are not created by the circumstance but by oneself. The sooner we believe in this, the faster we will be able to reach our goals.

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