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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Keele University
Más Claro. Composed in 2012. Composition for fixed digital media in seven short movements. Duration: 16:10.
First Performance: the ICSRiM Student Conference on Music, Multimedia and Electronics, University of Leeds, UK, 18/6/2012. Recording: Mas Claro in eMBODYments, Music for Bass Clarinet and Electronics, Centaur, CRC 3265, 2013.
Subsequent Performances: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2012, Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), 18/8/2012. XIX CIM Music Informatics Symposium 2012, Associazione Italiana Informatica Musicale (AIMI), Trieste, Italy. 21/11/2012. WOCMAT 2012, International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology, National Taiwan University, 30/11/-1/12/2012. From TAPE to TYPEDEF, Symposium on Electroacoustic Music, University of Sheffield - Dept. of Music,. 30/1/-2/2/2013.
This work investigates the continuum linking a set of extended techniques on the bass and soprano clarinets and their digitally transformed counterparts. The aims of this project are:
a) To articulate a palette of materials and phrasing solutions achievable only ‘off-line’, in the confines of the electronic music studio.
b) To surpass the increasingly sophisticated timbral world of contemporary live-electronics while equalling its expressive primacy through the design of ‘super-gestures’. In the process, spectral and dynamic attributes of the instrument are extended and magnified through the use of signal processing techniques.
c) To achieve the former within a short musical span (sonic miniature).
Thus the research explored the relationships between timbre-shaping and sonic montage at its tightest and most crucial level, condensing important structural implications into single morphological types. Furthermore, the progressive/regressive durations of the miniatures in Más Claro (1-2-3-4-3-2-1 minutes) constitute a temporal framework through which I investigated strategies to achieve coherent integration of a wide range of sonic stimuli by means of the miniature form. Therefore, the compositional strategy endeavours to integrate the seven short movements into a cohesive whole, while characterising each part with distinctive sonic signage. The strategies developed were adapted from approaches by Webern [1], Menini [2], Frengel [3] and others.
[1] Webern, A. 1909. Fünf Sätze für Streichquartett, in Berg/Schoenberg/Webern String Quartets, METCD1007, Metronome.
[2] Menini, O. 1998. Neufs Esquisses Acousmatiques in 5-Prix International Noroit - Léonce Petitot 1998 , NOR5 247982, INA-GRM.
[3] Frengel, M. 1998. Three Short Stories in Music From C.R.E.A.M. CDCM Computer Music Series vol.26, Centaur Records.
