Otro Punto de Vista Analítico sobre el acorde de Tristán vía Debussy

Ángel Arranz

[Spanish only]

ARRANZ, Ángel: Otro Punto de Vista Analítico sobre el acorde de Tristán, vía Estudio nº 10 para piano de Claude Debussy [online]. Madrid: Sul Ponticello, II época, n. 21, abr. 2011. Disponible en World Wide Web: . ISSN: 1697-6886

Como reciente colaborador en la revista on-line Sul Ponticello, ésta publica hoy, día de Viernes Santo -la fecha no podría ser más wagneriana- un artículo sobre una serie de estudios concluyentes que versan sobre el acorde de Tristán del preludio de la ópera Tristán e Isolda de Richard Wagner, y su posterior apropiación por Claude Debussy. Inicié estos estudios en 2004, retomando los mismos de manera intermitente hasta la fecha. Estos estudios vienen a demostrar la naturaleza geométrica del acorde de Tristán, el cual conforma el núcleo de un agregado en forma de cruz. Esta peculiar disposición es consecuencia de una estrategia compositiva que utiliza la armonía como vehículo –medio- expresivo, más que como finalidad.

DK qumran

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DK qumran is an interdisciplinary audiovisual series of three works by Ángel Arranz with the collaboration of visual artist Beatriz del Saz, which combines live visuals, architecture and music. The show consists in projecting real-time generated interior visuals, conforming a recital of electronic music [live and fixed media], which is reproduced through a set of speakers surrounding the audience. The purpose of this set is to create a feeling of spatiality.

Both video and music are based on the architecture of Bodegas Qumrán [ES]. The winery is located in the prestigious Golden Mile of Ribera del Duero, positioned on a small hill with gentle and sunny slopes called ‘El Cerro de las Bodegas’, surrounded by a vineyard of 4,5 Ha. The building, a work by the Spanish architecture studio Konkrit Blu, is an intimate concrete construction, which successfully combines futuristic design and the tranquil, timeless beauty of Castilian wine landscapes.

The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music

DEAN, Roger [2009]: The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music (Oxford Handbooks in Music)

Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN: 0195331613

For those who wanted to learn deeply via a syncretic reference that amalgamate the very different tendencies on electronic and computer music, congratulations. Since 2009 Oxford University Press has released a wonderful monography, The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music.

Ethernet pedal by Lex van den Broek

Lex van den Broek from the Technical Department of the Institute of Sonology - Royal Conservatory of The Hague has specifically created a new device in order to assist some requirements of the composer Ángel Arranz. The device consists in a re-shaping and re-functionality of a conventional guitar volume pedal, by removing the pre-existent circuitry and applying a new one, based on Ipson Lab technology developed by Lex.

Música electrónica y música con ordenador - Martin Supper

SUPPER, Martin [2004]: Música Electrónica y Música con Ordenador. Historia, estética, métodos, sistemas.

Alianza Música (Alianza Editorial), Madrid. ISBN: 84-206-8169-5.

Esta vez me lanzo al blog haciendo uso del castellano para recomendar a la comunidad hispano-hablante un libro, aunque no podemos considerar de reciente edición (2004), sin embargo encuentro interesante. Se trata de un libro escrito por Martin Supper, Música electrónica y música con ordenador, intitulado Historia, estética, métodos, sistemas. Está editado en la conocida editorial madrileña Alianza Música a partir de una traducción del original en alemán del año 1997: Elektroakustische Musik und Computermusik. Geschichte, Äesthetik, Methoden, Systeme

Soundpainting Workshop - León [ES]

EspacioVías organizes the workshop Soundpainting
by Beatriz Franco Mielgo during the 8th and 9th April.
EspacioVías, León [ES]

Soundpainting is a language of signs created at the 80's by the Newyorker musician Walter Thompson in order to compose pluridisciplinar performances real-time, given that it is oriented to musicians, dancers, actors, poets and/or visual artists.

This language comes up from the idea of conducting and giving form to the improvisation during its execution. The conductor or soundpainter addresses to the artists by means of gestures that mean actions. A soundpainting composition is the result of the comunication of the soundpainter's signs and the performers' responses within a live, interactive process.