Como un Cerillo

When: Sunday, April 19th, 2009 3-6pm
Where:722 South Broadway (between 7th and 8th), Downtown Los Angeles 90014

g727 presents

‘Pot-cast/Pot-luck’
part of Soundscapes Exhibit @ g727

Sponsored by
Vincent Pedraza of Discos BarbaAzul
and Frames by Adrian (ECCCE)

Join artist Carla Herrera-Prats and Barbazul djs this coming
Sunday April 19. 2009 3:00pm-6:00pm
at Discos BarbaAzul, right behind g727
(724 Broadway LA CA 90014).

Bring your favorite food, and dance following the rhythm of Cumbia
Sonidera music!

This event is an extension of Herrera-Prats project “Como un
Cerillo” now on view at the current exhibition “Soundscapes” at g727 (http://www.g727.org)

To Hear and See this event at home follow this link:

http://www.imagenauditiva.com/RadioTV.html

Broadcast Starts at:
Los Angeles (West Coast time): 3pm
Tepito (Mexico City and MACO Fair time): 5pm

Info about “Como un Cerillo” by Carla Herrera-Prats
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“Como un Cerillo” (Just Like a Match) is a mural and audio
installation that juxtaposes a text written by Tepito’s historian Alfonso Hernández with four songs that refer to the life of this Mexican neighborhood. Pille, El Despreciado, a professional MC/DJ from the 1960 narrates the text over each song’s instrumentation and lyrics. The audio synthesizes a history of this contested Mexican neighborhood as seen through Alfonso’s perspective. Como un Cerillo” is part of a series of fourteen urban interventions by different artists in Tepito, Mexico City, curated by Yutsil Cruz.

Info about “Soundscapes”
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727 is pleased to present its first exhibition of the New Year, Soundscapes, curated by Tiffany Barber.”Soundscapes” includes work by eleven Los Angeles and Tijuana-based artists that demonstrates the various ways of listening to place and the overlaps of history and personal memory. Through field recordings, experimental music, archived oral histories and site-generated public projects, the work featured in Soundscapes considers how urban situations are experienced and remembered through sound. Soundscapes examines sound work as an aesthetic response to urbanization and
its potential as a transgressive medium within place and geography. Soundscapes runs through April 25.