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Nyctinasty is an acousmatic work for fixed media and was awarded the first prize at the Punto de Encuentro Canarias International Electroacoustic Composition Competition in 2009

The work is concerned with organic movement, growth or reduction, as reaction to stimulus. Stimuli are either present in the sonic world of the work or Implied through the spectromorpholigical development of sound materials (sonic gesture as a sign of application of energy). The title, borrowed from botany, refers to nastic (non-directional responses to stimuli) movement in the dark. The textures used here have been developed using granular synthesis engines and the expression of acoustic space is achieved through the articulation of trajectories in it. The events portrayed in this piece are fictitious, and any resemblance to real events, past, present, or future, is entirely coincidental but highly probable. The work was realised at the composer’s home studio in the summer of 2009. Selected Performances. spacio Sonoro, Havana, Cuba, 2012 http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=78510 Sound Junction, Sheffield, UK, 2010 http://adrian-moore.staff.shef.ac.uk/sj2010/sj10.pdf Music Under the Influence of Computers, USA, 2010 (University of California, San Diego) http://mutioc.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/uk-electric.html City University Concert Series, UK, 2010 http://ihatemusic.noquam.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5618 Sonic Artists in Wales Symposium, RWCMD, UK, 2010 Days of electroacoustic music , Ionio University, Creece, 2010 XIII Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica «Primavera en La Habana», Havana, Cuba, 2010 http://www.opushabana.cu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2202&Itemid=44 XVI Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica-Punto de Encuentro, Spain, 2009 http://noticias.terra.es/local/tenerife/2009/1103/actualidad/el-xvi-festival-de-musica-electroacustica-recala-en-tenerife-con-seis-dias-de-conciertos-y-sesiones-en-vivo.aspx