Contemporary music isn’t a style for him so much as a vital organ. In Art from Blood, this young pianist opens up his creative physiology: why each work feels like an act of sacrifice, why part of him “dies” with every piece he performs, and why he refuses to separate music from the bodily truth that produces it. For Blanco, art is lived, not abstracted—something carried in the bloodstream.
His collaborations—dancers interpreting desire, painters responding to his improvisations—reveal a deeper pursuit: finding new ways to make contemporary music legible to those who have been taught to dismiss it as noise. He treats performance as an audiovisual architecture, borrowing from Rilke and Warhol to build experiences that reach people physically before they reach them intellectually.
What emerges in this interview is his commitment to legacy—not as prestige, but as coherence. Supporting contemporary music, he argues, is a cultural responsibility: a way of ensuring that today’s society hears itself truthfully. The conversation culminates in a stark, exquisite performance of Rautavaara, where his philosophy becomes audible. Music, for him, is not escape. It is how a culture confronts its own inner life.
