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Me(n)tal
An improvisation with audio ques
Rodrigo Sigal
program notes
The piece was composed for The Electronic Hammer and is a process of constant experimentation where the information flows in any direccion. Musically the piece explores the ability to create an atractive interaction between the performers allowing the Aural Landscape to be determined in real-time within a predefined context. ME(n)TAL works with motifs and seccions that are related in different ways depending on the decisions made by the performers. From a non-musical perspective, ME(n)TAL explores the contrasting levels of stress when chaoes aparently dominates the aural landscape compared to the comforting sensation that occurs when a coherent and coordinated musical fragment apears. In this way exploring the level of control that we normally expect in music and the speed at which the information in the piece develops. This piece will be edited on CD shortly.
bio
Rodrigo Sigal (www.rodrigosigal.com) (Mexico City-1971) Has a PhD in Electroacoustic composition from City University in London and a BA in composition from the Musical Studies and Research Center (CIEM) in Mexico City, and was part of the composition workshop directed by Prof. Mario Lavista. He also studied with Denis Smalley, Javier Alvarez, Franco Donatoni, Judith Weird, Michael Jarrel y Juan Trigos among others.
Since 1991 he has been working as composer, sound and recording engineer in his private studio in Mexico and London, composing for dance, video, radio and T.V., and he was the coordinator of the Computer Music Lab at the CIEM from 1994 until 1998.
He has received awards from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), The CIEM, The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, the ORS and The Sidney Perry Foundation in England and the LIEM Studios and The Ministry of Culture in Spain, the 1st. Prize (Cycles, 1999), honorary mentions (Tolerance, 2000 and Twilight, 2001) in the Luigi Russolo Composition Prize and finalist in Bourges 2002 (Twilight).
Some of his works are available on CD, and his CD "MANIFIESTO" (CIEM006), has received positive reviews and radio broadcast in Mexico and abroad. His music has been performed in more than 20 countries around the world.
Since 1998 takes active part in DAM (www.dam-music.com), a group of six composers that is working in different interdisciplinary project including Altenative Sessions with The Maarten Altena Ensemble presented in Mexico, France and The Netherlands.
He recently finished Blood Stream for the Spanish tubist Jesus Jara with concerts in Spain, Brazil and Argentina commissioned by the Cuenca Conservatoire. The project "Rimbarimba: Lejos del Silencio" for marimba and electroacoustic sounds finished recently was comision by Robert Esler (New Heaven, CT) and part of a Rockefeller-FONCA.grant. The piece has been performed in Mexico, USA, The Netherlands, Argentina, Brazil and England. He also completed Liquid Fear for the Maarten Altena Ensemble for 10 instruments, electronics and Video. Future activities include performances and seminars in multiple countries an the composition of Limite siete a piece for the Aksenti Dance Company, a flute and electronics piece (7/2003) and a piano and electronics concert for a Mexican orchestra (2004).
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