Composición algorítmica y síntesis: Alejandro Franco Briones, Diego Villaseñor de Cortina, Iván López Pineda.

Mezcla y masterización: Iván López Pineda.

Arte: Jorge Solar (www.instagram.com/sembradorsolar/)

Algorithmic Acid Music Vol. 1: 🤩

Algorithmic Acid Music Vol. 1: 🧄

¿Qué viento negro podría romperme el paso
o intentar siquiera cancelar mi canto? [...]
Llevo en mí el eco de 1 impulso insospechable
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What black wind could break my stride
or even attempt to cancel my chant? [...]
I carry within me the echo of 1 unsuspectable impulse

- Mario Santiago Papasquiaro


Algorithmic Acid Music Vol. 2: 1 impulso insospechable (AAM 2) is Pirarán’s second release. Departing from the cosmic introspective landscape of the previous volume, the music’s rhythmic tide takes us into an electrifying dancescape of tectonic bursts that gradually flows out like a delta into the material and concrete. An unsuspected impulse propels this journey through constellations of xenharmonic arrangements evolving into a granulated reverberation of voices shattering the continuity of ordinary experience.

The outcome is a dialectical synthesis of cosmic and terrestrial forces, a conjunction through which the individual and collective aspects of the psyche can find their way towards the imagination of new and potential futures: an opening of the heart, a redistribution of the means of perception, and an invitation to listen to and participate in the struggles of others.

1 impulso insospechable, the single track constituting AAM 2, was recorded live and realized as a networked performance at the Ekko (Utrecht, Netherlands) as part of the International Conference on Live Coding 2023. One third of the music was performed at the venue, another third in Mexico City and the last portion performed and recorded in Morelia.

Album art: Jorge Solar (@sembradorsolar)
Synthesizers: Iván López Pineda
Live Coding: Alejandro Franco Briones, Diego Villaseñor
Mix and Mastering: Iván López Pineda

Algorithmic Acid Music

MAA vol. 2

Algorithmic Acid Music Vol. 2: 1 impulso insospechable

"A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having"
- Emma Goldman, attributed quote

"If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your (r)evolution"
- Emma Goldman, alternate attribution, parenthesis is ours

"though it might seem that her insistence in freedom to change would invalidate the idea of promise or vow, in fact the freedom made the promise meaningful. A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice… if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur. One's freedom to choose and to change will be unused, exactly as if one were in jail, a jail of one's own building, a maze in which no one way is better than any other. So Odo came to see the promise, the pledge, the idea of fidelity, as essential in the complexity of freedom."
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

The music here is based on a sample from Beverly Craven's "Promise Me". Here's a voice suspended in time, never fully formed, neither fully present nor completely gone, a ghost of a future to come, wavering, still, but, still awaiting, yes. With it we want to evoke a different kind promise, the "promise and provocation" of an emancipated future (cf. Acid Communism, Fisher), that of a world which contains many other worlds in healthy and mutually beneficial co-existence (cf. Zapatista Philosophy). Despite the usual (western) “common sense” understanding of human societies, these kinds of worlds are and have been a real effective possibility throughout the history of our species (cf. The Dawn of Everything, Graber & Wengrow).

With this music we want to honor this promise of love for the continued existence of all human and non-human life, as a song-call to all that binds us together through, quite literally, these DNA which threads us with all life on earth. We sing and sound here in recognition of all those who are being oppressed and exploited because we know that a world without these is possible. 
credits

released January 29, 2024
Alejandro Franco Briones: Live coding
Diego Villaseñor: Keyboards and synthesizers
Iván López: Keyboards and synthesizers

Iván López: Mixing and mastering

With/Out Dancing

Para percusión y clarinete bajo amplificados.

Percusión, Orlando Aguilar
Clarinete bajo, Luis Mora

Fuego Sordo

Fuego Sordo (2016)_Fonoteca Nacional - 27/03/2017

Oscuros Puertos

Pirarán es un ensamble-red que alucina con ganglios de luz vueltos locos y silencios cojos. Su música ácida algorítmica se mueve equidistante entre la aridez y el vacío del post-fin de los tiempos. El ensamble-red está conformado por Iván López (Morelia, Mx), Diego Villaseñor (CDMX) y Alejandro Franco Briones (Hamilton, Ontario, Ca).
La banda está influenciada por foros de investigación de entonación justa y música poli-temporal, el modernismo popular latinoamericano (Pérez Prado, cumbia chichadélica, MicoRex), así como en géneros de música electrónica como el vaporwave, hippie synth music, techno, glitch, industrial, ambient y noise. Pirarán también se nutre extensamente (y expropia cuando lo considera pertinente) de ideas, palabras y visiones que dan sentido a la música, como las de Mark Fisher, David Graeber, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, Nancy Fraser, Manuel Maples Arce, Gayatri Spivak y Heriberto Yépez.
Pirarán se ha presentado en diversos foros de México y Canadá, así como en la Conferencia Internacional de Live Coding 2023 (ICLC) en la ciudad de Utrecht, Países Bajos, y en otros encuentros virtuales de live coding y música algorítmica como el Solstice Stream de Eulerroom (ediciones 2022, 2023 y 2024).