TXALAPARTA AND AVANT-GARDE, NOISE AND MUSIC

The txalaparta is a musical tradition from the Basque Country of great richness and complexity, that is played by two interpreters in alternance. The txalaparta has a strong relationship to the musical experimentation in the 1960s, where it rediscovery happened, but recently it has undergone rhythmical and tonal changes to accommodate to classical european music. Its recovery is a very interesting process because in the traditional txalaparta there are characteristics which are of the interest of experimental music, but at the same time, its recovery happens within an avant garde cultural context. The common formal and conceptual characteristics encompass the freedom of choice framed by rules and the interrelation between players through improvisation, timbral exploration, the use of repetition and pulse, or the lack of interest for tonality.