Category Archives: Sólo Final

THE MOTH

for turntable and electronics
2020

In their night trips moths fly with their wonderful dark camouflaged wings pursuing moonlight. Intoxicated by the power of artificial lights they loose orientation and become trapped, untiringly crashing against the light bulbs, until the morning comes. In this piece the main customized needle used by the performer resembles an insect that seeks sound. The sound-moth crashes and rubs against the spinning platter of the turntable producing complex textures. Manifesting the sound of friction.

in collaboration with Roberto Maqueda
recorded at Centre Pompidou
premiered at Manifeste Festival 2020, Centre Pompidou – Grande Salle
RIM, Jean Lochard
Sound engineer, Arnaud de la Celle

CORTEX

For Piano and electronics

2017

Written for Rei Nakamura – movement to sound, sound to movement

Cortex displays a surface capable of hiding and uncovering sound particles. In its evolution objects are amalgamated, they arise, or sink, generating layers in which different conditions of fusion between piano and electronics are manifested. Glittering layers of texturized dry sounds in the foreground fuse into a deep resonant background to emerge in the surface with different shapes and timbers.
The particles explore the acoustic limits, with instances of total immersion, in which the crescendo gradients are interspersed with subtle materials to play with a linearity that is not logical but sensitive. The objects can be recognized individually, but they transcend their particularities thanks to the logic of the relations between them and the surface. From this operation results the tension and cohesion of the work as a whole.