For this occasion, Pablo Fredes has prepared four new works that will explore the expressive capacities of the new Phonos 3D audio system, with 15+2 audio channels.

Programme

Oriol Graus, Conversa (1ª part) (2020)

Andrés Lewin-Richter, Aranyó (2020)

Jordi Rossinyol, Esbalaïda enmig del torb (2020)

Javier Sánchez, El Bosque (2019)

Comments of the authors on their works

Oriol Graus, Conversa (1ª part)

"For a little over a year I have been working on a work structured in three parts, based on texts by Sufi poets. In one of these texts, they talk about the finite space of perception defined by our senses and how that same space is simultaneously occupied by another universe, apparently inexistent, but equally perceptible, when we observe it without considering rationality or academic knowledge. This work is a reflection on the perception of these universes and also of speech, of how the emission of a spoken message is perceived, according to the degree of knowledge we have of language, by its meaning or as a flow of more or less articulated sounds. This composition is designed to make the listener feel immersed in it. The sounds have been divided into fragments that are scattered across the different tracks, each of which is assigned to one or more speakers, placing its fragment in a specific point in space. The order of reproduction of the fragments, their duration, density and location are variables of a system, where the concreteness of their values is part of the inexplicable. I am grateful to Pilar Subirà, Wade Matthews and Mario Lucarda for their voice and dedication to this project."

Andrés Lewin-Richter, Aranyó

"A new experience in new equipment, and a 15-channel polyphonic experiment."

Jordi Rossinyol, Esbalaïda enmig del torb

"Brushstrokes, pictorial textures. The structure, between density and silence.

Stunned, time is absent. Neither what’s been said nor what’s possible: the instant.
The blizzard («el torb»), what a nuisance («torba»), upsets the order.
What makes you restless if not your own desire?

The wind spins in a spiral forming an absorbing whirlpool .

The harmonic discourse is parallel to the discourse of noise.
Listening generates expectations, delays events, speeds up diction.

The idea forms the sound. The materials emerge, the ambit, its limits.
It establishes paths or rejects them: the arguments, unavoidable."

Javier Sánchez, El Bosque

"Multifocal work for loudspeakers set. Spatialised synthetic voices, multi-level out of phase explorations, field recordings and granular synthesis fight for control of the room in a sound metaphor about the forest, its mysteries and its uncertain future. The beginning of Lewis Carroll's book Alice in Wonderland, narrated by different artificial voices, takes us straight to the fall down on the rabbit hole and to the immersion in a distorted reality in which sounds recorded in natural spaces of crickets, birds and water unfold from microscopic evolutionary loops... in a parallel reality. But be careful! Is this parallel reality, that of the forest unpolluted by human intervention, our personal wonderland?

Created from field recordings. Processed with MusaDSL, Max/MSP and Live."

Bios

ORIOL GRAUS RIBAS. He studied composition and electroacoustic music with Gabriel Brncic and computer science applied to music with Lluís Callejo. He attended courses with Luigi Nono, Dieter Schneabel and Josep Mª. Masters-Quadreny. In 1986 he received a scholarship from the "33 Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik" in Darmstadt. Awards: "I Concurs Musicians Accord". "VI Tribuna de Jóvenes Compositores". "INFART 90", "IX Premi de Composició Ciutat d'Alcoi per a Música de Cambra". "V Premio de Composición Andrés Gaos". "IV Concurso Internacional de Música Electroacústica. SGAE". "Laboratorio del Espacio 2010 and 2020". He was part of the traditional music group Lahiez and the instrumental group Phonos. He premiered "Stella Fugacis", "Orquesta de la RTVE", conducted by Enrique García Asensio and "Deseo y Esperanza", a work that won the "V Premio de Composición Andrés Gaos", "Orquesta Sinfónica de Galícia" conducted by Muhai Tang. His work focuses mainly on electroacoustic music, especially on multifocal diffusion projects. (https://www.oriolgraus.cat)

ANDRÉS LEWIN-RICHTER (born Miranda de Ebro, 1937) is a composer and industrial engineer. He obtained a Fulbright scholarship that allowed him to complete his studies at Columbia University, in New York City, where he studied and worked between 1962 and 1965, being an assistant to Vladimir Ussachevsky, Mario Davidovsky and Edgar Varèse at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, where he created his first electronic compositions. In 1968, he founded the Barcelona Electronic Music Studio and was executive director of the Conjunt Català de Música Contemporània between 1968 and 1973. In 1974, he founded the Phonos Foundation together with Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny. He is a composer specialised to a greater extent in electroacoustic music, having composed instrumental works with tape and music for ballet, theater, film and video.

JORDI ROSSINYOL. Disciple of Gabriel Brncic. Courses and seminars with Luigi Nono, Lluís Callejo i Creus, Francisco Kroepfl, Gerardo Gandini, Andrés Lewin-Richter, Helmut Lachenmann, Walter Zimmermann, among others. Electroacoustic techniques in Phonos. In 1986 he attended courses in Darmstadt: lectures by Molton Feldman, Kaiha Saariaho, Bryan Ferneyhought, where he also receives advice from Emmanuel  Nunes, Irvine Arditi, Magnus Anderson. His work has been influenced by the continuous contacts and projects carried out with Joan Guinjoan, Josep Mª Mestres Quadreny and David Padrós. He was part of the Conjunt instrumental Phonos, and since 1986 has been the guitarist of mezzo-soprano Anna Ricci, also conducting the premiere of several chamber operas. He promoted the creation of the instrumental group Vol ad Libitum, which he directed for almost twenty years. Performers and composers such as Jep Nuix, Gabriel Brncic and David Padrós worked in this group. For years he has developed several projects with professionals from other artistic fields, most notably the poet Joan Brossa. (https://jordirossinyol.wordpress.com/)

JAVIER SÁNCHEZ. Sound explorer, graduate in psychology, ex-software engineer, coder, trained in harmony and composition and postgraduate in sound art. Doctoral candidate in Fine Arts at University of Barcelona. His investigation and artistic work is focused on the aestetic consequences of algorithmically generated sound structures and his interaction/interference with not algorithmically based processes. He has designed and implemented Ruby based Musa-DSL programming language focused on algorithmic music creation. Most of his work is created with this language combined with Max/MSP, Supercollider, Live or Audacity. (yeste.studio)

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