Nuevas Músicas por la Memoria, Gira Federal 2013

Orificios, Paisajes y color... | Ana Foutel/Ezequiel Esquenazi
Para piano, piano preparado y electrónica.
Ana Foutel, piano/Ezequiel Esquenazi, electrónica

Orificios, Paisajes y color... (Ana Foutel/Ezequiel Esquenazi)

A carnyx is a large ceremonial and battle trumpet that dates back to the Iron Age Celts. The body of the instrument, a curved sharply ascending S-shape, features a small mouthpiece on one end and a wide bell on the other. Towering six or more feet above the head of the musician when played, the bell of the instrument is typically designed as the head of a fierce wild predator or mythical monster that comes to life during performance with fiery eyes, wagging tongues, and cacophonous bellows. One can imagine the terror of first encountering an army of Carnyces as scores of beastly animal heads slowly emerge from the early morning mist with “cries so loud and piercing, that the noise seemed to come not from human voices and trumpets, but from the whole countryside at once”. (Polybius, Histories, II, 29). Programs: Csound and IRCAM's Open Music.

Carynx by Chris Arrell

Realization by the Ball State Electroacoustic Ensemble (world premiere)
Chin Ting (Patrick) CHAN, Director.

t, o, n, e, s (2023) is an open instrumentation graphic score comprising five modules. Each module is identified by a letter (e, n, o, s, or t). A performance involves the performers using the modules/letters to spell one or more words of their choice - e.g., (n, o, t, e, s), (n, o, t / n, o, t, e, s), (o,n,e / s, e, t). Any number of players may participate in a performance, which may last for any duration. How the graphs are interpreted is left to the player(s).

t,o,n,e,s (s,t,o,n,e)

Spirits and Spectra takes inspiration from the chaconne, a musical form organized around a series of repeating chords. Five timbres/harmonies unfold, settling in time into a looping pattern fashioned from permutations of the series 3-5-1-4-2. Aleatoric processes coded in Open Music complement the number sequence by providing continuous variation in frequency density, waveform, amplitude, spatialization, and delay. Further contrast is heard in deviating sections rooted in interpolations between the chords of the chaconne. Spirits and Spectra is dedicated with gratitude to the Csound and Open Music communities.

Spirits and Spectra

Nuevas Músicas por la Memoria, el único festival dedicado a la música contemporánea argentina, cuya programación se conforma por una convocatoria abierta, amplía sus actividades, impulsando una serie de conciertos en varios puntos del país.
Esta primera, gira, a partir de una propuesta de la Secretaría de Cultura, y con el apoyo de Melos Argentina, en homenaje al Maestro Gerardo Gandini, implica una enorme responsabilidad para nuestra organización y un reconocimiento a la labor realizada desde 2011 tanto desde la programación y la promoción de la música contemporánea argentina, como en los foros de discusión que año a año fueron desarrollándose en cada festival, por una política cultural que apoye la creación musical y reconozca a sus compositores.
Dirección: Jorge Sad.
Coordinación: Ezequiel Esquenazi.
Auspicia Secretaría de Cultural de la Nación y Fondo Nacional de las artes.
Colaboran Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica (ENERC) y MELOS ARGENTINA.

Orificios, Paisajes y color... (Ana Foutel/Ezequiel Esquenazi)

NMXLM Gira Federal II

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