Watch music video here :  https://youtu.be/_SaEDoIVzMA
Music & Graphics by Arnaud Le Coq

Just a naïve song

can't even get a light off the stove

For amplified string quartet and live video
Duration ca. 9 min
Composition: Helga Arias
Live Video: Ross Karre
International Contemporary Ensemble:
Sonic Matter Festival, Zurich. 02.12.2021
Josh Modney Vn
Jennifer Curtis, Vn
Rosa San Martín Valdor, Vla
Michael Nicolas, Vc

This piece was entirely conceived and written during the pandemic, as a mean of enabling the creation of a work over long distance and without direct interaction between the participants.
Despite being a string quartet, the composition focuses on the individualities of each performer rather than seeking a common "string" sound.
To this end, the concept includes a process of "unfolding" the personal and musical characteristics of each one of the performers, told through psychological, musical and skill tests.
The audiovisual material that compound the final work is a result of assembling information about each performer and their musical persona.
The whole process took place through collaborative apps such as zoom. The participants never met until few hours before the premiere.

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mountain’s red leaves
the setting sun returns
to the sky

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa

Picture by Laura Vinck https://unsplash.com/photos/Hyu76loQLdk
Waveform background by Darren Bourne

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Helga Arias Parra (born in Bilbao, Spain) studied composition with Mario Garuti (Conservatorio G.Verdi Milan) and Beat Furrer (Kunsuniversität Graz) and computer music with Javier Torres Maldonado (Conservatorio A. Boito Parma) and Karlheinz Essl (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien). 

Besides, she has received individual lessons from other composers such as Michael Jarrell, Kaija Saariaho, J.B. Barrière, Georg Friedrich Haas, Pierluigi Billone, Isabel Mundry, Mark André, Toshio Hosokawa or Alberto Posadas among others and participated in masterclasses with Helmuth Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Philippe Manoury, José María Sánchez Verdú, Trevor Wishart or Daniel Teruggi.


She has been awarded in the international contest “Città di Udine”, the  RCSM Victoria Eugenia de Granada contest for Symphonic Orchestra, the shut up and listen! Electroacustic festival in Vienna or the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik Competition 2014.

Her music has been performed in several festivals and music halls such as the Donaueschinger Musiktage (Next Generation), Manifeste Paris, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, EMUFEST  Rome, Klangwerkstatt  Berlin, Festival Mixtur in Barcelona, Atlantic Music Festival in Maine, USA, Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva (Mexico), Domaine Forget  (Canada), Casa del Suono in Parma (Italy), Etchings Festival (France), Echoraum Vienna, Experimentalstudio Academy of the SWR Freiburg, 3rd Forum for Young Composers in Cascais (Portugal), Sonutopias 2014 (Santiago de compostela, Spain or ZKM Karlsruhe (Germany) by ensembles such as Ensemble Inercontemporain, Ensemble SurPlus, International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA), Vertixe Sonora,  Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne, ECCE ensemble, Taller Sonoro, Sond'arte electric ensemble, Ensemble Cepromusic, Ensemble Progress Berlin and others.

Currently she teaches in Switzerland.

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