What are you doing the rest of your life?

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Talking about my project "What are you doing the rest of your life?" requires going back to 2006, when I present in Switzerland my audiovisual installation "Requiem for 2 Basuróphonos", where I reflect on the exhaustion of resources. Imagining myself in a hypothetical decadent future, I built two musical instruments, based on my intuition and with no other resources than the remains of richer times; "basura", trash, hence the name of the instruments

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This was my first approach to sound art, which years later led me to create the project Music for 18 Things, in which, without being a musician or luthier, I built instruments for an orchestra and composed a musical piece, questioning what we expect from people, what we do with our own lives, or why, when we meet someone, the first thing we ask is what they do for a living.

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A long time ago, a friend accidentally played a piano key, and I asked her to repeat it. After playing it, she asked me why, and I told her it was the first note Bill Evans plays in the song "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" Then she asked me: "And you, what are you doing the rest of your life, since you always say you're going to start studying music and you never do?" I decided then that this note and the next two would be the question, the raison of being of "Music for 18 Things," surely my most difficult and audacious work, full of questions, hesitation and a need to learn.

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After months of development, rehearsing every Saturday and Sunday with 14 musicians in my studio in Barcelona, dealing with my personal limitations and questions, both technical and conceptual, and after the premiere in Italy, then in the Basque Country and Barcelona, ​​I decided to reformulate that same question, to repeat those same notes: Do – Si – Mi. "¿Qué - ha - rás?" What will you do? In a much simpler work, alone in my studio, using techniques and materials I know.

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And in a moment of needing isolation, "Què Faràs?" was born, full of references from important people and circumstances in my life, which attracted or repelled me, but which influenced me enormously, long before the word "influencer" existed with its current meaning. "Què Faràs?" was born as a piece, but remained latent for years, as a starting point for a new series of works in which I would repeat the same question, in different circumstances of life.

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As in other works of mine, iron oxide and hydroxide, and even the oxidation process itself, merge in gestures of expressionism and abstraction that allude to life and to the most fundamental of all questions: existence.

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Adapting the work into a large-scale mural format for Music Street in Jaime Lerner Park in Curitiba, Brazil, was definitely the catalyst that propelled the project, which had been waiting for over a decade for other projects, or perhaps waiting for a circumstance that would led me again to ask myself: What will you do for the rest of your life? And my heart beats… once more, and at the same time one less… I don't know, I have more and more questions each second.

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