Unlocking the Keys (2021) is a fixed media Ambisonic work that explores three dimensional sonic space. The title serves as a metaphor for searching out (i.e., “unlocking”) the potential of sounds created from recorded piano sources, which start out abstract in nature and fully reveal themselves in the middle of the piece.  While the ideal listening experience for this piece is a periphonic sound system (a three dimensional configuration of speakers such as “dome” or 8-channel “cube”), the version provided here (stereo) preserves all of the musical material, mapping it down organically to a two dimensional listening space.

Unlocking the Keys (2021, Ambisonic electroacoustic)

I've been fascinated by electroacoustic/acousmatic music since discovering what could be done with reel-to-reel tape in the 1960s. Nowadays I enjoy exploring what can be created with modern hardware and software.

Compositor, diseñador de sonido e intérprete – PhD, Universidad de Birmingham, Reino Unido (2013), Master in Music de la Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, EEUU (2003), y Músico compositor, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (2000) – Profesor asociado del Departamento de Música de la Universidad de Los Andes, enfocado actividades de investigación / creación y docencia en los campos de la composición por medios electroacústicos, mixtos e instrumentales y la teoría musical. Es fundador y director de BLAST – Teatro de Sonido de Bogotá, Universidad de los Andes –, un sistema sonoro inmersivo multicanal de alta definición para la realización de conciertos a gran escala de obras musicales con formatos mixtos y electroacústicos. Es director del Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica SPECTRA. Asimismo,  junto al compositor Santiago Lozano, es integrante del dueto de música experimental Efímero, que explora el campo de la síntesis análoga modular y procesamientos digitales con la espacialización, dentro de formatos abiertos a la improvisación en tiempo real.

Jorge Gregorio García Moncada is an electroacoustic composer, full time faculty member of the Music Department at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, focused on a diversity of teaching and research activities in the fields of music composition and theory. He is founder and director of the BLAST system – Bogotá, Los Andes Sound Theatre –, a multichannel sound diffusion system for performance of electroacoustic and mixed media musical works. He is director of the SPECTRA international electroacoustic music festival, based in Bogotá and hosted by BLAST. Alongside Colombian composer and performer Santiago Lozano is member of the duet Efímero, an experimental music ensemble focused in exploring the relation between analogue and digital synthesis, signal processing and sound spatialization.

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All music composed, produced, mixed and mastered by Daniel Krumland.

Unlocking the Keys (2021, Ambisonic electroacoustic)

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