This piece, its author and its performers, offer a brilliant answer to many topics about music today: interaction between styles and between artists, evolution of contemporary 'classical' music, use of the modular synthesizer as a protean but fully-fledged instrument, relationship between acoustics and electronics, importance of mixing and sound engineering, sound and final artistic quality of recordings (including 'loudness war'), etc. All subjects that a musician or a genuine music lover is confronted with today, whether he likes it or not, in a more or less close and more or less active way. My remark should absolutely not obscure the profound aesthetic value and the remarkable execution of this piece, the emotions and the pleasure they give... Multiple satisfactions, then. (The video will complete an appreciation of the piece and the work done).

'manu militari'
Corvée de Chiotte.
Track created in 2020 (Live recording).

Tools :
Logic > uMidi > Marbles clock.
Rings, Basimilus, Telharmonic.
Tides, Quad VCA, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.
Volca Sample.
Volca Drum.
DrumBrute Impact.
Mixed in Logic Pro 9.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Marée Haute à Ploubelzec [corvée de chiotte]

FILM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASn2Zse6g8k

Many Moons

Sounds only produced with my breath and a piece of bamboo. 
Several superimposed such improvisations, no additives.
 
Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia), 26 July 2023.

www.pedroalvarez.info

Piled-up improvisation on Quenas

dead-frequency sky (2023)

It's an electroacoustic piece. Please, listen with headphones or through external loudspeakers. 
Premiered with a spatial diffusion through Hydra system at Harvard University on the 15th of Dec, 2016.

Cryptic Thingness (2016)

The Book Of Traps And Lessons

Firesmoke

short excerpt from a generative patch built around the uncertainty of various cross modulation and sequencing processes..

treading water

COMPRESSION MUSIC (2018, Luis Codera Puzo)

Check a video about the piece here:
https://vimeo.com/275076906

Sarah Maria Sun, voice
Neus Estarellas Calderón, piano
Feliu Ribera Riera, percussion
Santi Barguñó, sound engineer
Luis Codera Puzo, modular synths, samplers, composition

ENG
Compression Music is a full concert piece which deepens the very idea of sound. The piece raises the question of how the omnipresent current aesthetics of compressed sound in modern music (characterised by homogenising dynamics and the construction of a compact sound) can meet a classical music criteria based on opposing principles such as realistic acoustics, natural instrument colours and wide dynamic ranges.

The text of the piece is a reconstruction of a multitude of fragments of lyrics of pop songs that I liked when I was younger

Project supported by Fundación BBVA

ESP
Compression music es una pieza-concierto que plantea cómo la omnipresente estética actual de sonido comprimido, caracterizada por homogeneizar las dinámicas y construir un sonido compacto se enfrenta a un criterio y tradición clásicos basados en principios de acústicas realistas, timbres naturales y amplios rangos dinámicos.

El texto de la pieza es una reconstrucción de multitud de fragmentos de letras de canciones de música pop que me gustaban cuando era más joven.

El proyecto cuenta con el soporte de la Fundación BBVA

Compression Music (part 5)

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Track created for the Disquiet Junto Project. http://www.disquiet.com
0431 = Solitary Ensembles x 3. Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians.

First step : Winter Never Came by Onkeltuka.
https://soundcloud.com/user-439418171/winter-never-came-disquiet0429

Second step : Niemalswinter by Krakenkraft.
https://soundcloud.com/winterer/niemalswinter

Third step, here.
Tools :
Marbles with some Jitter > Rings > Quad VCA > Monsoon.
OCHD > Rings brightness, frequency, damping.
Batumi sine > Quad VCA level.
Mixed in Logic Pro 9.

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More on this 431st Disquiet Junto project ("Solitary Ensembles x 3. Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians") at:
http://disquiet.com/0431

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto/

Project discussion takes place on http://llllllll.co/

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Never Say Winter Again [disquiet0431]

This is one of 3 tracks that were made solely by using the analogue synthesizer EMS Synthi 100. For each track, there was a single patch and the material was recorded live in one go. Rhythmical synchronization of the material was done by using the Synthi's sequencer. Simple live manipulations included putting a pin or two in and out and switching on and off the mixer channels. Additional panning of each individual channel was done on a computer. These tracks demonstrate the effect of extremely simplified musical material produced by using the not-so-simple sound tool (for the reference, try figuring out and programming a Synthi 100 sequencer:)). Tracks are named by the number of sequencer steps used in that piece. Recorded live at Electronic Studio - Radio Belgrade.

2019

From the album STEPS: https://svetlanamaras.bandcamp.com/album/steps

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composer
modular synths and electric guitar performer
cultural manager

Compression Music (part 5)

luis codera puzo

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