Composition made with the vibrations recorded inside of Rotterdam´s Cathedral. A Massive construction place in front  makes the Cathedral resonate. 

Laurens Rotterdam

Rotterdam Corner is a composition made out of sound recordings in a corner of the city of Rotterdam. The specific rhythm of the events that were happening suggested me the idea of creating a work based on an internal beat that is always present although loud sounds cover it continously.

Rotterdam Corner

Rotterdam Blaak Market is a real binaural experience in Rotterdam´s Blaak Market that only is built up on Tuesdays and Saturdays. My first idea was composing a derivate work from the recordings but finally I decided to leave it as it is, only editing some levels. A multicultural air is quite present in the recording due to the many different languajes and ways of  intonation. The internal life of the market provides us a good composition by itself.

Rotterdam Blaak Market

Enrique Tomas live in Linz [September 5th 2011] 
Live at Kapu (kapu.at) during the Sonorous Horreum sound art Exhibition. 

Enrique Tomas - live in Linz [September 5th 2011]

Medialab Parte 1 Enrique Tomas at Radar Club (2006) during the first international Interactivos? workshop over the classic I am sitting in a room by Alvin Lucier

Medialab Parte 1 Enrique Tomas at Radar Club (2006)

Track composed for "el elogio del horizonte" (Horizon Elegy) by Eduardo Chillida for the experimental audioguide of Gijon produced under the umbrella of No-Tours Project.

elogiodelhorizonte

endphase concert in madrid 2008, excerpt of that concert

Endphasemadrid2

Extract of electroacoustic improvisation concert by Endphase (Enrique Tomás, Joao Pais and Alberto Bernal - laptop performers) and Relentless duo (saxophones and objects), Madrid 2008, Offlimits Space. 

BIO:
Enrique Tomás (Madrid, 1981) is an interactive music systems composer and sound performer. A dissident of the academic composition academy, he was responsible for sound art works like the interactive installation Algorithmic Echolocation, exhibited SONAR, Ars Electronica, etc. As an educator and developer, he has given workshops and master classes on interactive art installations, gesture control and computer music at different institutions and festivals in Europe and America. He is member of various experimental music and improvisation collectives (EMI, RecursiveDog, Atmosfera::Sustrato_Ruido, Endphase), where he is active as a laptop performer and sound artist. Since August 2008 he is based in Linz where after working for Futurelab Ars Electronica founded the "Labor Für Elektroakustische Musik und Neue Medien Linz". 

INSTRUMENT: 
Laptop (Pure Data based) and hemispherical speaker.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
In normal size auditoriums and listening spaces I can play using my hemispherical speaker with any instrument. In case of playing in an open space or in a big auditorium I will need another external amplification for my laptop. 

CONTACT INFORMATION:
ultranoise.es@gmail.com
http://www.ultranoise.es

Endphase offlimits [by Enrique Tomás]

Eme [EarthMoon Earth] is a project by Daniela de Paulis consisting on the transmission of different media to the moon with the help of a radiotelescope. The echoes of this transmissions are listened by radio amateurs and sent to a performance room.
Enrique Tomás was invited to compose seven short pieces of sound for being sent to the moon. Each one thought as a soundtrack of one of the seven colours. These are the ideas of the composer:

Linz, May 2010


Hello Daniela,

now that I am finishing the production of my sound works for the EME project, I would like to send you some lines for the presentation and for the application that you are preparing.


At least for me, not having absolute hearing or synaesthetic condition, if light has colours then sound possesses tonality, being it musical or not. For each one of Newton´s colours I have composed a short work based on the tonal intervals of our Western´s musical scale. The structural principle is the sequence of notes, arranged in a way that produces a total neutral harmony. Then, each piece uses a different sequences evoking a new sound tonality. Over this basic principle I have included some sound artifacts (or tonality artifacts) for extending timbre and rhythm. All these seven parts of the composition don´t have a defined starting or ending point, we just perceive them during a particular window of time, being conceptually infinite in duration.


From another point of view, the particular specifications of the project, with a maximum length of each piece of 72 seconds, a reduced spectrum between 400 and 2800 Hz and a monoaural playback were an important constraint. Also I took into account the fact that my audios will be distorted due to the transmission through the atmosphere, the vacuum space and the reflection on the surface of the moon. My objective then became the creation of an audio playground for artifacts, both natural and artificial, playing together over an infinite sequence of notes layer. 

Eme [EarthMoon Earth]

Maul und TrommelSeuche and Enrique Tomás.
Improvisation at Brauhaus Project (Linz - European Capital of Culture) on 18th September 2009
Jew Harps and Laptop with Pure Data

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