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Refractions II
For Gongs, Quadraphonic Tape and Live Electronics
Juan Parra Cancino - canito@koncon.nl
program notes
In Refractions the fundamental concept is the exploration and detailed description of the musical moments where the sound actors exchange
material (both physical and structural).
The manipulation of a wide physical space (real or simulated) furthers
this idea, relying on the space itself as part of the ensemble, or rather,
the instrument where the interaction and combination of the musical
material is happening. The use of live electronics serves the purpose of
being a bridge between the tape and the acoustical instrument, a bridge
where one can walk, or stop and stare at the evolution of several
interconnected events where the moment is infinitesimally small.
Here the morphing of ideas and units is at its maximum, the music components are no longer isolated and a new musical entity is presented to the
Space.
The sonic material for the Tape was realized in the Analog Studio of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Netherlands, and further evolved and finished at the private Studio of the Composer.
Some of the computer sound processing techniques used both in the tape and the live processing include granular synthesis and amplitude, phase locked and time convolution, for which different methods were implemented in Csound and Max/Msp by the composer.
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