El Sindicato de altavoces: Fredes, Lewin-Richter, Argudo Mielgo, Espejo Santis

EL SINDICATO DE ALTAVOCES

Curator: Pablo Fredes

Program

"La Zona Nata"   Pablo Fredes

"216 Estudio de Filtros"   Andrés Lewin Richter

"Continuum"   Julio Argudo Mielgo

"DE TENEBRIS"   Leonardo Espejo Santis

About the composers and works:

Pablo Fredes:

Studied music at the Catholic University of Valparaíso, later in Paris with the Chilean composer Sergio Ortega and electroacoustic music at ENMP, Paris. In 2006 he began his residence in Barcelona, studying composition at the Master of "Musical Composition and Contemporary Technologies" (DCMT) at the Pompeu Fabra University, directed by Gabriel Brncic. He has taught at the DCMT. He runs El Sindicato de Altavoces, an acousmatic music concert series at Phonos.

The natural zone:

The natural zone: The natural tone...the distance, the edge of the words, the immense and the intense. An opaque, tenuous tone, but always alive and that survives each time a situation that submerges it. Always nascent and always in parentheses. I wanted to start from a simple, but disturbing acoustic fact, where I hear in its funky sound signal a sign and a meaning to be developed. But on the other hand, it sinks into a bottomlessness that resists its form and only allows its distance to be perceived. A deep and intense space that reflects only shadows in it. It is this that forces me to create. It is the resistance of the area to which it belongs and the tension that I deposit in it (sign and meaning?). It is the perception beyond and what I force against everything that resists. The idea from its original area and its natural voice. I imagined the gesture of the entire piece as a Japanese Komorebi, a phenomenon of light and shadows. Or, of shadows and light...

Andrés Lewin-Richter:

Andrés Lewin-Richter (Miranda de Ebro, 1937) founder and for many years executive director of Phonos, organiser of the ICMC 2005 and SMC 2010 events, was a professor at UPF and ESMUC. He is a composer specialising, to a greater extent, in electroacoustic music, having composed instrumental works on tape and music for ballet, theatre, film and video.

A piece becomes the end of a chain of pieces and this is what happens with this study:

“Instrumental Sounds” uses transformations of acoustic instruments, it was the basis of “ICFO”, where series of quantum numbers were superimposed on fragments of the previous work. And this time the sounds obtained are studied independently through very narrow filters that are displaced in time to use the 15-channel system and observe their result in space. It is an experience, a study, there is no intentionality.

Julio Argudo Mielgo:

Sonologist, composer and violinist from Madrid, he began his training in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid, and is currently studying at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. Especially interested in the creation and interpretation of electroacoustic music and sound art, having worked on various projects in the composition, interpretation, production, design and sound setting of works and sound installations.

Continuum:

This piece is the result of searching for meaning in time, of observing how we relate to it, how we measure it, how it affects us. Time as an uncontrollable natural event and at the same time as a measurable and usable human concept. The relationship between time and space and our endless search for answers.

Leonardo Espejo-Santis:

Leonardo Espejo-Santis is a Catalan musician of Chilean origin. Bachelor of Arts with a major in Guitar from the University of Chile, after a career as a performer, he became interested, from 2005, in working with modular synthesizers. Through contacts with American musicians and his self-taught ability, he fully immerses himself in electroacoustic music, and in the field of improvisation. It is the year 2014, from a course at the IRCAM, given by Benjamin Thigpen, he learns about the Musiques et Recherches institution, a discovery that awakens his interest in acousmatic composition and that marked his professional career. He is currently studying electroacoustic composition with Annette Vande Gorne.

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