FLOATING SOUND GALLERY

Vienna

Vronihof

^{Supported by Stadt Wien Kultur}

“Marelle ou Les instants de la vie” is originally a 16-track piece. “Marelle” is a children´s game in which children jump with one or two feet across squares drawn on the ground with the aim of reaching heaven – a parallel, if you like, with life stages when we go through different phases, choices, fears, anguish and happiness. I therefore created different groups of sounds that are placed in different corners of the space and wander around.

“Déjà vu” was created during quarantine which was a moment of solitude in which I was looking for materials, and finally I decided to use one of the most traditional stereotypes of electroacoustic music, “bouncing”. The title is “Déjà vu”. In other words, there is nothing new there. There are bounces that repeat themselves, repeat themselves persistently.

“Ce monde et ailleurs” was created and performed at the “Futura Festival” in 2019, which was a thematic festival. My idea was to somehow retrace the history of humanity through the voice, how humans began with the first babbles, then created words and songs, getting more and more complex, leading up to large chorales, the polyphonies … and also through the parallel evolution of instruments, from the simplest ones (flutes) and combinations of the simplest mechanisms and polyphonies of the most simple dances to the great symphonies. This procedure within the piece will continue to grow until we reach the point where we can feel a multitude of noises, different voices intertwining, various musical forms superimposed. Pierre Schaeffer´s voice also appears in this piece, saying something that I consider to be premonitory. It´s a phrase I´ve already used in another piece, a tribute I paid to Pierre Schaeffer. He says: “Les machines pensent” (machines think), which leads us into discourses on robotics and artificial intelligence, thinking that machines are really thinking.

“D´un souffle lointain”

comes together with a video. It is a piece for electronic trumpet, played by Valentín Garvie, a trumpet prodigy, whom I have known since he was a child, he is now a great trumpet player whith whom I´ve worked together and who also introduced me to different ways of playing, etc.

The piece “Purzelbäume” is an electroacoustic tango — the title is in German, since it was commissioned by Deutschland Radiokunst in Berlin. In Spanish the translation would be “dando tumbos”, I´ll leave the English translation to you, these words are from tango lyrics.