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DE GO
Ricardo Giraldo - ric@mezcalito.org
program notes
For tabla and live computer processing.
De go is a free analogy between the Tabla (hindu percussion) and heart beat rhythms taken from the electrocardiograms of patients with severe heart irregularities creating a rhythmic impulse between the tabla and its live electronic counterpart.
This piece was created during workshops conducted by The Electronic Hammer percussion and computer music trio and is the second part of EKG (2002), a piece which is again based on electrocardiograms. The later was composed for the Slagwerkgroep Den Haag with funding from the Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst for six percussionists a tape for the occasion of the ZUID-AMERIKA: HOMAGES (2002) concert series. EKG was rewriten for four percussionists, tape and video in 2004 for the "10 years of Tambuco" concert series in combination with the Centro Nacional de las Artes and Muziekgroep Nederland.
bio
Ricardo Giraldo Montes (1971 Colombia/Netherlands)
Currently acting as composer in residence of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague, The Netherlands since 2001 he also creates independent experimental videos. Giraldo.s works have been presented in diverse festivals in several countries. He studied composition at the CIEM and Graphic Design at the EDINBA in Mexico. He followed composition studies at the Koninklijk Conservatorium of The Hague Netherlands and in 2003 he was nominated for the Program for Media Artist from the Rockefeller Foundation and Yale World Fellows Program. He is currently working as the European representative of FICCO (Festival de Cine Contemporáneo de la Ciudad de México).
In Mexico he obtained a BA in composition at CIEM (Musical Studies and Research Center) and attended composition seminars with Mario Lavista, Juan Trigos, Ignacio Baca Lobera and Franco Donatoni. He also studied Graphic Design at the EDINBA (School Design of the National Institute of Fine Arts).
His pieces have been performed in Mexico, The Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Bulgaria and Sweden in festivals like: Gaudeamus Music Week Competition 2000 (NL), the 11th Sydney Spring Festival (AU), Rumori Festival (NL), the XXIII Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva Manuel Enriquez (MX), Arte 01 (MX), BAC! 2002 Barcelona Arte Contemporaneo (ES) and RADAR: espacio de exploracion sonora within the XIX Festival de Mexico en el Centro Historico (MX) by ensembles like Tambuco (MX), The Song Company (AU), Maarten Altena Ensemble - MAE (NL), the Residentie Orkest (NL) and the Slagwerkgroep Den Haag (NL).
CD releases by MAE and percussionist Tatiana Koleva (BG/NL).
He is an active member of:
-DAM, composers group (1998) (www.dam-music.com). A group focused on the diversification of their compositional interests by collaborating with artists from other disciplines, incorporating technology and exploring different ways of creation. Their project Altenative sessions - the Mexican connection together with the Maarten Altena Ensemble and different visual artists, was presented in different halls in The Netherlands and Mexico in 2003.
- tag, a multidisciplinary group (2003) (www.tag004.nl).
Since 2001 he works as composer in residence of the Residentie Orkest of The Hague and he is a nominee for The Program for Media Artist 2004 by the Rockefeller Foundation.
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