Sigma Project, saxophone quartet

Programme Note

When I started working on this piece, I listened to Marcus Weiss and Giorgio Netti’s catalogue of saxophone multiphonics, and I realised that a particular type of multiphonic has a sonority – an intervallic content – that I have been exploring since 2002 in my pieces, and that I have been composing by hand for different instruments. Later, I researched this type of multiphonic further with the generous help of Andrés Gomis.

As this sonority is one of the building blocks with which I have been developing my harmonic techniques, it occurred to me to coordinate the specific pitches available on these multiphonics with my techniques.

I implement my methods for the generation of chords and of chord sequences with computer-aided algorithmic composition, and combine them with stochastic processes. I am interested in creating chords with internal intervallic relationships at both extremes of the consonance/dissonance continuum, in order to have sonorities that manifest peculiar mixtures of intervals; combinations of pitches with inner consonances, interferences and beatings.

Recorded by José Pablo Polo and mastered by Juan Carlos Blancas.

Esta obra se realizó con apoyo del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes a través del programa Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte 2016-2019.

Flaring up from Blackness for saxophone quartet

Composer of vocal, instrumental and electroacoustic music based in Madrid.
Curator of the new music festival VANG. 
Director of the Master in Electroacoustic Composition programme at the CSKG. 
SuperColliding since 2001.
https://sergioluque.com

Flaring up from Blackness for saxophone quartet

Sergio Luque