The music premieres Palacio in Yucatán
With an auditorium for 450 people, a recording studio and an eight-room museum, the recently inaugurated music palace in Yucatán, has the mission to conserve and promote Mexican music.
"Music has been and continues to be sound and number at a time, acoustics and mathematics, and this is based on its universality." Phrase by Iannis Xenakis, musician, architect and civil engineer fundamental character who linked the musical arts with his constructive expression. Serve your memory as a prologue to celebrate the inauguration of a building that makes this relationship.
It is the Palace of Music of Mérida, a venue whose objective is to preserve and promote Mexican music. More than a palace, it is a versatile space. It has an auditorium to house 450 people; A state-of-the-art studio where artists can make professional recordings; A museum of eight halls, whose museology was in charge of the experts of the renowned high School of Arts of Yucatán; and an open courtyard that will host the largest FONOTECA outside Mexico City and where a giant screen will be installed for the projection of cultural activities that passers can enjoy.
The complex also houses the National Center of Popular and traditional Mexican music, whose goal is to encourage research, dissemination, and training of musicians. To achieve the latter, it has an academic and research area consisting of conditioned rooms to learn the execution of an instrument because there will be a bachelor's degree in traditional and Popular Mexican music.
As for the building, it is an avant-garde design immersed in a historical context. His conceptual commitment was the rupture with the pre-existing architectural language, a discourse that allows to situate it as a contemporary manifestation and that brings to his surroundings new areas for better mobility and pedestrian enjoyment.
Its main façade is approximately 140 linear meters and its design plays the piano roll with the horadaciones of the song "This Afternoon I saw Rain", by the Yucatecan composer Armando Manzaneo. While the facade of the terrace shows a greater movement with vertical panels that, rhythmically grouped, resemble the curves of the resonance box of a guitar.
The enclosure, built where the state Congress was before, will be part of the most important cultural corridor of the historical center of Mérida, formed by the Museum of Macay, the cultural center Olympus, the Theatres Armando Manzaneo, Daniel Ayala, Felipe Carrillo Port and José Peon Contreras.