Pernambuco Building: Spacialities of live music in the ExcentriCidades project through a constellation of concepts

Abstract

The reoccupation of the Pernambuco building, located in the center of Recife, by creative businesses, brings a new form of territorializing the consumption of music in the city and raises questions connected with the idea of space, cultural scene and multiterritorialities. A “constellation of concepts” then is evoked seeking the understanding of spatialities created by music in the ExcentriCidades project, organized by the Coletivo Sexto Andar, in the Pernambuco building. The music that crosses the event is part of a network that, through connected listening amid a multiplicity of artistic expressions, requires a coping space of the musicians, noise, deconstructing what is expected from a show in the traditional sense. Thus, the musical events of ExcentriCidades creates cultural landscapes, in other words, spatial representations or spatial emulations and, on the other hand, create multiple possibilities to enter and/or to exit cultural scenes that are activated during these events.

Keywords: space, musical scene, multiterritorialities, ExcentriCidades, connected listening.