Trimpin sounds like modern dance, but it's the name of an artist-musician-inventor-nutter who makes musical sculptures with a hundred guitars and composes symphonies from earthquakes or bats. Without a doubt, the most unusual and fascinating composer on earth.

Friday 30th / 22:30 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Saturday 31st / 16:30 / Aribau Club 2
(*) Presented by Sergi Jordà

Trimpin sounds like a modern dance, but it's actually the name of an artist-musician-inventor who lives in Seattle. Trimpin (just the surname), in his own words, didn't want to be a "technician, an engineer or a composer, but rather something that hovered between all these things." And, certainly, one does not know in which box to put Trimpin. He's a magician? A scientist? Or a musician? Or all those at once? Of German origin, Trimpin moved permanently to Seattle in 1980 because there "the access to quality throw away technology was much better". And that, in a few words, is what the great Trimpin does: gives new life to discarded instruments; resuscitates pieces of dead equipment, converting them into strange monsters. Trimpin uses sound like a toy, and there don't seem to be any barriers to his inventiveness: he's made musical sculptures with a hundred guitars, musical fountains in which water is the musician, and composed symphonies using earthquakes or bats. Beyond a doubt, he's the most unusual and fascinating composer on the planet. The sound of invention documents his past, present and future (the documentary culminates at the Kronos Quartet concerto using Trimpin's instruments), while the most impossible looking pieces of refuse ring out.

Having graduated from Yale and the American Film Institute Conservatory, PETER ESMONDE has been rising step by step as an editor, writer and producer until becoming a director. Trimpin. The sound of invention is his first feature length documentary.