Nilo Gallego | Spain

Musician and performer, plays drums, percussion and electronics. Creator of numerous sound actions (in rural and urban scenarios / in public spaces and on stage). Nilo has participated regularly in a great amount of international festivals and events as musician and performer.

He also shared stage improvising with musicians, dancers or performers such as Pablo Rega, Africa Navarro, Patricia Lamas, Chefa Alonso, Markus Breuss, Günter Heinz, Wade Matthews, Phil Durrant, etc. Besides he has participated in improvisation orchestras directed by Peter Kowald, Butch Morris, Lê Quan Ninh, Wolfgang Fuchs, Dave Tucker and Roland Ramanan.

He is a member of the Música Libre collective, dedicated to the improvised music in Spain. Also, at León, he belongs to the Piensan Las Manos collective (next to Chus Domínguez and Marino García), specialized in documentary films.

Nilo Gallego has created several soundtracks for theatre, installations and contemporary dance. In 2003 he coordinated and performed in the project "Yavestruz comoandamios parecementerio" (music and action improvised on scaffolds in public works). In 2004 he directed in León the workshop "Taller Espontáneo de Pequeñas Nadas" (specialised in street performances) and in 2005 the sound art workshop "Suénate los Mocos" at the Museum of Contemporary Art of León (MUSAC).

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Project: Sound action with shepherd, goats, dog, musicians and audience
Category: Sound Art, Music, Video
Period: March 2006 | October 2007
Event: Art Residency

Nodar's landscape is scattered by flocks of sheeps and goats that play an important role in the local rural economy. For instance, the Montemuro mountains situated in front of Nodar have from centuries back witnessed the ritual of transhumance, huge flocks of goats being brought by their shepherds from the surrounding valleys during the summer in order to benefict from colder weather and greener pastures.

With this context in mind, Nilo Gallego has started a residency at Nogs in March 2006 in order to develop his project "Sound action with shepherd, goats, dog, musicians and audience". Nilo has already been involved in another project with sheeps ("Felipe comes back home with the sheep sounding"), that took place back in 1999 at Bercianos del Real Camino, León, Spain.

During the residency, Nilo interviews local interesting residents (such as storytellers, musicians and shepherds), and follows the interviewed shepherds during their daily routines, both out in the fields and at the paddocks, in order to set the scenario for the final sound action event, to be presented during a new residency to happen in July 2007. This event will combine pure observation of the actors (goats, shepherds and dogs) with an open intervention of several musicians and artists, both spanish musicians and performers, Nilo included, and local traditional musicians ("tocadores"). A final documentary of both the preparation and the final event will be made.

Project's weblog

http://nilonodar.blogspot.com

First Art Residency - March 2006

Excerpt of a Soundscape recorded by Nilo Gallego:

Second Art Residency - October 2007 (with Noemi Fidalgo)