Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta

This is a excerpt of Melismas (voices modulated by Anatolian landscapes)” piece made by Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta. It was a radio piece commissioned and broadcasted by Oscillation Festival 2021 (Brussels), by the online radio stations Kool Kast (France) and Ma3azef - Badlcukwind show- (Tunisia), and lastly by Concertzender (The Netherlands).

Raw and one-take recordings were used in this piece without add studio effects. The acoustic effects are from the lanscape.

You can find more information about our ongoing open call, watch a video trailer, listen excerpts of the radio piece and find more documentation of the project in this link:

https://cielopresenteytotal.wordpress.com/7-2/prjcts/mlsms/

*The Azan is the Islamic call to pray, sung by a muezzin at prescribed times of the day from a high Minaret placed in a mosque.

Melismas (voices Modulated By Anatolian Landscapes) Excerpt2

Composed for the voice of Janneke van der Putten.  This is a extract from the first album of our project Invisible Architecture, link: http://sajjra.net/chrs/?page_id=2744  Recorded and performed in the light tower of CIAP - Vassiviere , France.

Becoming-Siren (Aloardi, 2014) acoustic reflections of one voice in a light-tower

Mira esta mar from OTO V.A.  2015 (OTO 2015)

By error in the compilation of Sub Rosa, this track appears with the name "Marañon" and my name like Christian Galaretta, it seems a big problem the spanish language for the Sub Rosa team. This track appears also in my release "Rico Rimac" (Aloardi 2006) .

Rico Rimac - from the Compilation: "An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music 5" (Sub Rosa, 2007)

Marañón

“Marañón” is the name of a big river that crosses the Peruvian Amazon. I composed this piece strongly influenced by the experience of navigating this and other rivers in the jungle for many days. During this experience, I perceived --in the way that the life occurs every day in those environments--  certain cycles and processes with behavioral patterns that I would later extrapolate in my composition unconsciously. I became aware of this after hearing the piece when it was finished, and I was surprised to find this relation. Some years later, I discovered that some traditional musicians and shamans in South America use these kinds of techniques (the act of visiting special places that are called "places of power" ) to learn how to play the music for a specific traditional celebration or to find the spiritual disposition to resolve some specific problem in their community. It seems that some environments influence us with certain patterns of behavior (shapes); these can be extrapolated to different contexts and experiences that do not have a direct relation to them, at least not in a rational way.

On the one hand, I do not have a conventional education in algorithmic composition; on the other hand, I contemplate 'live phenomena ' as a way to perceive structures for the composition. These two factors prompt me (sometimes in an unconscious way) to de-compose, to meta-compose (when I am programming), to improvise, to listen or to live, in an attempt to throw out a conception of music that follows rational archetypes and paradigms, and instead emphasize the direct experience and its suggestiveness. This piece is my refusal to a totally controlled/abstracted order and represents a way to keep an open mind to a spontaneous organization that emerges from the sound-energy generated by the patterns recreated in the algorithm. 

Marañon - from the release "Rico Rimac" (Aloardi 2006)

Sajjra Chrs Galarreta has been very active in the South American experi​mental scene since 1995. He published and performs with different soloist projects and bands as   <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sajjra" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sajjra</a>, <a href="http://soundcloud.com/evamuss" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Evamuss</a> , <a href="https://myspace.com/ticaticatica" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tica</a>, <a href="http://soundcloud.com/ningunaninfula" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ninguna Ninfula</a> ,<a href="http://soundcloud.com/miasshma" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Miasma</a> , <a href="http://50otages.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> 50 Otages </a>,DiosMeHaViolado and among others. He is the fou​nder of indpendent label <a href="http://aloardi.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Aloardi</a>. Today he lives between Peru, France and Netherlands. Some releases still in stock here : https://chrsgalarretaprojects.bandcamp.com