Defensa Interior by Txema González de Lozoyo

Defensa Interior is a limited edition of four cassettes: Molí, Marès, Tramuntana, and Albufera, edited by Txema González de Lozoyo. Each contains compositions created from field recordings made in Mallorca. In Defensa Interior, listening and recording become gestures of resistance, practices that break through routine and reveal what often goes unnoticed. The pieces emerge from the liminal space where ethnography meets art, where attention is action.

The presentation of the recordings and the listening session, which we jointly propose at Es Baluard Museu, is included in the Biennal B program and will be led by Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, who will accompany the author.

“We have kept the sounds of our ancestors within us for a long time. Despite being very ancient, sounds always become new again. They are what enhance our thoughts. They are what make us see and know things. Those who do not absorb the breath of the spirits have short and smoky thoughts; those who are not looked upon by the xapiripë do not dream, they only sleep like an axe in the ground.” Davi Kopenawa

The pieces in Defensa Interior propose active, situated, and conscious listening, which brings out the hidden and transforms every moment. The session becomes a shared space, where each ear becomes an accomplice to the sounds and the experience the work proposes. The audience is invited to open their senses, to allow themselves to be penetrated by the sounds, to perceive what normally escapes attention, and to experience listening as an act of subversion and resistance.

During the event, the program Ars Sonora (RNE – Radio Clásica), directed by Miguel Álvarez- Fernández, will be recorded live. The broadcast will be dedicated to the career of Txema González de Lozoyo, exploring his work as a musician, experimental sound creator, and anthropologist linked to ethnographic research.

Txema González de Lozoyo is a musician, anthropologist, and phonographer. He conducts research, creation, and production in the fields of sound and music. Specializing in field recordings and traditional instruments, his work stems from the exploration of sound traditions and develops with a clear experimental vocation, often bringing territory, memory, and deep listening into dialogue.

He has released a dozen albums, ranging from ancient and traditional music to the most radical experimentation. He performs concerts, installations, and sound interventions in auditoriums, museums, radio stations, and streets around the world.

Miguel Álvarez-Fernández works around the idea of ​​”listening” from different perspectives (as a sound artist, musicologist, curator, essayist, playwright, film director, music producer, and more). Since 2008, he has directed and presented the weekly program Ars Sonora on Radio Clásica of Spanish National Radio. He also coordinates the monthly listening sessions held at the Cineteca de Matadero Madrid entitled “Relatos del ruido. Hacia una historia escuchada de la música experimental en España.” His most recent film, “Jordi Teixidor. Retrospectiva”—directed in collaboration with Álvaro Oliveros and Bruno Dozza—was released in 2023. His latest book, “Heterodoxias” (Cátedra, 2024), compiles a series of conversations with the artist Niño de Elche, with whom Álvarez-Fernández regularly collaborates as a music producer and artistic director (on albums such as “La distancia entre el barro y la electrónica. Siete Diferencias Valdelomarianas” and “La vigilia del sueño” (The Vigil of Dreams), or installations such as “Auto Sacramental Invisible. Una Presentación sonido a partir de Val del Omar” (Invisible Auto Sacramental. A Sound Representation from Val del Omar), presented at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid in 2020). He previously published the essay “La radio ante el micrófono: voz, erotismo y sociedad de masas” (Consonni, 2021), as well as “Luis de Pablo: inventario” (Casus Belli, 2020).