One Hundred Extended Geometrical Chords

Cien Acordes Geométricos Extendidos (One Hundred Extended Geometrical Chords) is an organ piece that lasts for 90 days. The piece is composed of 100 chords and 76 silences. 76 people play in relays each day (or not) at 11:00 and/or at 17:00 one chord lasting between 1 and 6 hours. Chords which are longer than 6 and up to 24 hours will are played with weights on the keys, and silences will be performed by the absence of someone at the shop window.

The 76 people/organists come from different backgrounds: artists from varied disciplines, architects, psychologists, sociologists, engineers, as well as teenagers and unemployed people. All are payed by the hour with the monies available for the project.

The sound of the organ is barely audible from the street due to the daily movement of the city's main avenue. The audience/pedestrian may distinguish a soft sound and try placing one ear on the windowpane or enter the shop window and take a seat by the organ. The continuous sound changes radically with each place and also within it.

The piece offers an immutable and non-obsctructive state, focusing on what is non invasive, calm and long lasting, a meditative state in contrast to the daily buzzle and hurry of its location.
For the organists it offers a chance for persistance, focused attention and the contribution to a large collective work.
For the audience/pedestrian it is a chance to stop for a while to listen, wether it be the subtle sound coming from the windowpane or the trance-like experience of the endless and pervasive sound seated next to the organist.

Cien Acordes Geométricos Extendidos is a homage to North American composer John Cage. The title of this piece in Spanish is an acronym on his surname and the one hundred chords where selected from five of his keyboard pieces: Metamorphosis (1938); Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1948); Changes (1951); Etudes Australes (1975) y One5 (1990.)