Flutervoice II for flute and fixed media (2021)
composer: Gustavo Chab
flute: Patricia García

Flutervoice II emerges from previous ideas when I was exploring air sounds, vocal and percussive sounds for the flute a few years ago.
There are actions that can be played inside or across the Instrument; Air sounds with vowels and consonants are combined to achieve different colorations which are represented using abstract notation.
Performance in transit require a medium and slight resonant place and amplification to achieve a fluent and expressive environment in balance with the fixed media; floating time and intuitive music interplaying with fixed and live electronics.

Invisible shapes

Flutervoice II

Invisible Shapes for fixed media (2021)  

This piece was inspired by a famous radio anthology series. A voice is heard. I processed an excerpt with sounds, invisible sounds, invisible shapes as a form of life that can’t be seen. Levitate sound objects against gravity. The invisibility brings a message. A listener invents a scenario like a mysterious magical journey through sonic territories as a story to be discovered about the end.

Invisible Shapes

Stellar Pulsations for piano and fixed media (2020)
composer: Gustavo Chab
piano: Inés Victoria Sabatini

Inspired by the idea of regular fluctuations and pulsations I started working on this piece. Stellar involves different kind of transformations of sounds like expansions and contraction to maintain a certain equilibrium; different times scales, regular alternations in the pulsation cycles and evolution of
the sound in space.
Regular behavior is in contrast with the variability of sounds. (amplitude an imaginary stellar)
Taking different samples of the piano as a form of matter, a selective spatial position of sounds and their trajectories, are some of the ideas I use in Stellar pulsations; trying to make a musical work that
allow me to express a beauty of sound in a certain way.

Stellar Pulsations

Concret Totem 
version for fixed media (2channels) 09:06sec. (2022) 

The present work was made from sounds that were originally generated by the instruments of Productions Totem Contemporain and other sources.
The piece was composed for Totem Électroacoustique competition that in 2022 celebrate its 20 years of sound research. PTC called to participate in competition.
The origin of the sound material as part of an instrumentarium unique in the world like: TOTEM instrument as the bowl, the insects, the pipe, tu-yo, the acoustic oscillator and many others.
The original sounds are distributed and mixed in a creative process trying to connect with the matter of sound that included another aspect of the concepts as a spiritual significance that is adopted by it as an emblem manipulation of the reality.
The composition brings together voices and material related with new acoustic musical instruments.

Concret Totem

for trumpet and 4 channel fixed media (2022) demo de prueba-(version midi referencia-solo alturas definidas)

Degrade

Gustavo D Chab- 2 - 4 channel fixed and live interactive computer (2016-2017)
Blending Birds is not motivated by a sense of separateness. It is an action that move steadily and continuously like our contemporary expression, "going with the flow," a Taoist principle.

Short extracts, excerpts and musical tradition are considered in this work.
Exploring the possibilities of the computer for musical creation, transforming sounds to enrich them by different kind of manipulations.
birds appearances are like inner orientation,  unconscious in search of unity.

blending birds

blending birds - excerpt 5

A voice from the past come to the present as a Spiral in my mind. This voice is a brief chant in Ladino of my grandfather that emerge like a Spiral in the composition. This excerpt of audio was taken from a video of my family. This work tries to combine sounds that are related with “the voice of Sefarad” (past) and sounds of the present that sometimes come to my mind and appear in form of repetition with punctual sounds.

Mixing sounds that appear in different manners trying to go in form of evolution like a Spiral.

The sounds “of the present” mainly are made and created with Modular Synthesis, different kind of systems like Buchla 200e in my residency at EMS Elektronmusikstudion 2018 (the centre for Swedish electroacoustic music and sound-art), and others machines. Exploring the possibilities of this instruments trying to make flexible as a poetic expression and mixing then inside the atmosphere of the piece. 

Selected piece Festival Futura (2019) Mondes Paralleles - Programme 2019.

Spiral Voice

A awake for clarinet Bb performer and fixed media

A awake is a piece that emerge from the following abstract:

“Virtual images are images..

They are in locations like a dream where light does not reach.
..Images on the other side of the mirror, steps that only appears to an observer..”  

“object distance   Image distance

Sounds as a reflection, time for a personal reflection.

Time for displacement, a gradual diminution of visibility over the countenance; flashes sounds and luminescence”.

Recordings from a clarinet and electroacoustic sounds are related with the Idea of this Initial abstract.
Leila Chab (clarinet), explore new sonorities as a part of a musical expression in this piece. Environment involving extensive and soft sounds of the clarinet are process simultaneously and assembled with the fixed audio by the player. 

This project has obtained the Creation Grant FNA (Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019), ICMC, International Computer Music Conference (selected 2020), Atemporanea, Musical Festival (selected 2020).

A awake

4 channel fixed media or version for female voice, 4 channel fixed media and sound projectionist

This piece was conceived in three different process:

Sapphires appear at the beginning as precise and punctual materials “a place where absorption of light is possible”. The first version of the piece where the structure can be heard. “As an Interaction between matter with different wavelengths of light as a sounds”.

Dichroism is more descriptive and oneiric. The voice like a derive of the spectrum of Sapphires (a precious gemstone).

Lia Ferenese (singer) explore new vocal possibilities as a part of a musical expression in this piece. Nontextual sonic combined with electronic sounds of the first piece: a variation of the word/phoneme of Sapphires is mixed and process creating new sounds like an “incident polarization state of light... A material will absorb light, like a Corundum depending on the presence of transition impurities in its crystalline structure”.

Diattenuation is a variation that include materials of the previous pieces. The length of the piece always is the same (8:24). In Diattenuation there are permutations of the essential like an Items derive from different electroacoustic technics.

Excerpts of this pieces have been composed in my residency at Studios LaBut in 2019, Strasbourg, France.

Selected piece at eviMus festival (2020) evimus.de

Sapphires

Blue Luminescence   for fixed media (4 channel)    07:54     (2020)


Like a spontaneous emission of light, sounds with their inner existence appear as a sparkle of energy over a “blue bunch mix of sonorities like an abstract ambiguity. This kind of emission of sounds or energies as a “cold light ... an optical range of visible sounds”. 
Like behind a curtain I build an imaginary deep blue colour in my mind; sounds make their appearance following individual and global trajectories like a mix of emissions in space.
Performance, listening space. The image of this piece is created by using two stereophonic recording and it is tied to the specific possibilities of spatial forms and perspectives for the sound projectionist.

Blue luminescence

Blue Luminescence

Gustavo Chab Argentina-Spain (b. Buenos Aires, 1964)
Composer of mostly electroacoustic works that have been performed in the Americas and Europe.
He composed his first electroacoustic piece in 1993, specializing in composition techniques in electroacoustic.
His compositions, including works for instrumental, electronic music and performances. Frequently explores the spatialization of sound in composition, mixing electroacoustic sounds and acoustical instruments.

https://gustavochab.blogspot.com/p/bio.html

Gustavo Chab

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