Raúl Minsburg

Circuit Fantôme Season 5 Episode 02
curated by Anton Iakhontov (Patrick K.-H.) and Daniel Teruggi,


Fr, 7 March, 2025
18.00-22.00

Four shows
at 18:15, 19:15, 20:15 and 21:15
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        Veronikag. 24
        1170 Wien

photo René Pichet


Raúl Minsburg
Composer, researcher and professor. He won several awards as a composer, being the latest the prize of the Government of the city of Buenos Aires (2013) and an honorific mention in the Prix CIME 2017 - International Confederation Of Electroacoustic Music.
He develops his activity as a Professor and Head of Research at the National University of Tres de Febrero, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is the Director of the MA degree in Sound art and Sound studies. He is also Professor in the National University of Lanús.
His music has been performed in many different concerts and Festivals and his works has been released in different editions of Cds, and he is author of articles included in different cultural and academic publications.
He is coordinator of the Ciclo “Bahía (IN) Sonora” held since 2008 in the city of Bahía Blanca, Argentina.



Octophonic performances:

Historia de la pólvora (2011, 10:48)
Retrato de la noche
(2018, 9:08)
Caída libre
(2023, 5:04)
El gesto ausente
(2015, 11:11)
Canción de cuna
(2022, 7:31)



Historia de la pólvora (2011, 10:48)
is the fourth movement of the work "La memoria del tiempo". This work takes as starting point the concept of sound memory. Like other types of memory, is both individual and collective, voluntary and involuntary, since sometimes it surprises us when it is stimulated by some event in the present. The experience of time is individual, but it is also inscribed in a historical time, shared with our contemporaries. This work is born from this cross-experience. Each movement, in its own way, focuses on a theme, an era, sounds and images. This one, specially focuses in certain facts occurred in the 60’s and 70’s.



Retrato de la noche (2018, 9:08)
Music composed for "Portrait of what the night left behind", an experimental performance based on a portrait of Francis Bacon. It contains very brief quotes from works of Francois Bayle and Hildegard Von Bingen.



Caída libre (2023, 5:04)
Work composed with recordings from the Iguazú Park. Footsteps, stops on a walk, fleeting voices, and sounds of the environment compose a sound plot not as a document or record, but from sound as a living matter.   



El gesto ausente (2015, commissioned by the INA – GRM. 11:11)
Work dedicated to Bernard Parmegiani. From a fictional point of view, it imagines Parmegiani having a promenade in Buenos Aires hearing and feeling the rhythm of the city and its music from his own musical perspective. The title, and the work, also deals with the problematic of the gesture in acousmatic music. The gesture is not visible but aural. But how subtle a gesture can be before it is no longer perceived as such? How many gestures can be perceived at the same time before they are perceived as only one global gesture? The paradox, the contradiction, is present in many of the works of Parmegiani… The absence of a gesture, could be perceived as such?



Canción de cuna (2022, 7:31)
For my daughter Olivia








Supported by Stadt Wien Kultur 
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