'Dissonance of Emancipation'
for ensemble of nine
composed Gregor Forbes, 2019
performed 16 October 2019
Ensemble Avantgarde
Gewandhaus Leipzig, Mendelssohn Saal

Thumbnail image is a painting by Ad Reinhardt

Dissonance of Emancipation

Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Arizona State University. 

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All tracks are edited from improvisations recorded in the wee hours at our studio.....

We also make experimental films to project at our performances, some of which you can see on Vimeo and our instagram profile (see links below)

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Ramón Otero's work is mostly driven by two creative approaches. On the one hand, the quest for musical contexts in which contrasting materials (used to build up form) coexist as an organic whole but can still be perceived as differentiated elements: unity and diversity all at once –antithesis and paradox as musical form. On the other hand, the development of a working method which intends to explore sonorities worked out through the edition of previously recorded material. The pre-recorded material allows me to isolate sound objects that will be subsequently multiplied through modification of its sound parameters, repetition and re-location in all sorts of linear and overlapped combinations. With this working method, the same recording session may produce endless combinations; hence the multiplication concept. Both score writing and sound editing are constitutive parts of the composition process.
Even though the results of this working method may be produced as fixed media, as the composer controls every detail on every stage of the process [like a visual artist normally would], the multiplied instrument method allows for any combination of pre-recorded and edited material with live performance or live electronics. 

LIST OF WORKS
Ventar de Árbores (2014) – for Solo Guitar (premiered at the Coruña’s Fine Arts Museum – 2017)
Vento lisgairo (2015) – for Solo Piano (premiered at the Resis Festival – 2018)
Nós (2017) - for mezzosoprano, violin, violoncello and guitar (commissioned by the Coruña’s Fine Arts Museum, Spain)
Etopeas (2017) – for violin, violoncello and guitar (commissioned by the Pontevedra’s Council Museum, Spain)
Hidrotopías (2018) – for String Quartet (commissioned by the Resis Festival, Spain)
Growing Tree from Within (2018) - for multiplied Guitar (published at the Mexican Scores Youtube Channel, worlwide)
Antes de recorrer mi camino yo era mi camino (2019) – for Violin and Tape (commissioned by the Bienale Netet e Muzikes Klasike, Albania)
Lumbre-Fulgor-Extinción (2020) – for Amplified Trio [Tenor Sax, Guitar and Percussion] (commissioned by Vertixe Sonora Ensemble and premiered at the Navarra University’s Museum, Spain)
Livro de areia (2020) – for Amplified Tenor Sax and Violin with Electronics (commissioned by the DME Festival, Portugal)
Unha e Mil Árbores (2021) - for Violin and Video Electronics (commisioned by Roberto Alonso and Hong Kong Baptiste University, premiered at the MIHL's Museum)
Solitarias, Infindas as Sequoias (2021)- for Amplified String Quartet (commisioned by Vertixe Sonora, premiered at Igrexa San Domingos, Tui)
Memoria de la luz (2022) - for solo Piano (commisioned by Grupo Instrumental Siglo XX, premiered at Palacio de la Opera, A Coruña)
Sonata per Cello Solo Percorso (2022) - (commisioned by cellist Juan Aguilera Cerezo and recorded as part of the Album Casiopea, Works for Cello solo from XXI Century)
En una Duna de Arena del Desierto (2022) - for Ensemble (commisioned by Vertixe Sonora, premiered at Igrexa San Domingos de Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela)

Dissonance of Emancipation

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