Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Todo lo cría la tierra

Con el tiempo en el culo y recién aterrizado en Barajas, el próximo pasaje de tren reservado y con gana gatuna de deambular, así, aun a riesgo de chafar los planes de varios días.. ¡qué más da! Mi primera reacción ha sido acordarme de todos ellos: lo representan todo. Hoy Madrid es un trozo de Sol. Algo fascinante, centrípeto, me empuja hacía allá, es un sol pa'dentro. Se ha gestado una ola de humanidad que ha alcanzado al globo de izquierda a derecha, de arriba abajo, de atrás... hacia delante. No es un campamento: es una huerta donde se cultivan dignidades, una planta que por extraña, no deja de pertenecer al mundo vegetal. Se han sembrado las ilusiones de todos, los gritos sordos, la indignación, las ansias de libertad. Todo lo diluye, todo lo esteriliza lo mediático -también lo internáutico-. Pasear por entre los toldos es toda una experiencia de contaminación emocional... ¡tan necesaria! Lo que se respira ahí no son rescoldos: es algo que empieza de cero, que crece, como las tomateras: irregular, de manera orgánica, sin prisa, anunciando vida. Mezcla entre energía encontrada, multiplicada, grandeza de espíritu, irreverencia por derecho propio, corrección política. ¡Qué grande el haber rescatado este vocablo de las redes del eufemismo! ¡Políticamente correcto! Y humanidad... [¡humanidad!]. La palabra hecha emoción, maltratada por las humedades de estos días, el reflujo de la contienda y el adhesivo carcomido, erosionado contra las caras de ese extraño poliedro que me recuerda caprichosamente a la boca enorme de un caimán. Cercanías, cercanías... nunca mejor dicho, cercanías... sin prisa. Todo aguanta como por sí mismo. Ahí están, mal pegados, desvencijados, crujiendo de dignos, atronando en silencio, emborronados por los berretes de la tinta diluida, con una compostura inquebrantable, con ese estar tan estando. Cientos, miles de aldabonazos que resuenan en la conciencia del hasta aquí hemos llegado: mensajes a domicilio, para todos y para todas. Demasiada correspondencia. Un diálogo intrauterino de miles de voces, que no se lamentan, sino que hablan del aquí y ahora, de la sabiduría, del sí-sí. Mucha buena gente junta, tranquila pese a todo, ejemplo y evolución. Algunos doctos lo confunden con algo naïve, algo difuso, de gente ágrafa. Ellos sabrán. Dice un viejo refrán que la letra con sangre bien entra: a este pueblo le vienen sobrando más palos que letras.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

[15M] ..... como .... el .... agua

Asco. Ayer sentí asco. Estaba cansado. Y aún así, no pude evitar una náusea profunda y punzante. Soy un ciudadano más, con conciencia y definición política: voto y soy de izquierdas. Probablemente como vosotros, desde hace varios años estoy cansado del corralito del cloroformo al que nos llevan sometiendo políticos, banqueros y canallas -sin demasiada indiferenciación-. Siento un asco redoblado viendo erigirse en el poder quienes francamente no lo merecen; de nuevo son los que barren sólo para casa en detrimento de los demás. Asco viendo a Zapatero, como una ovejita que se acaba de comer al lobo. Llega descaradamente en coche oficial en compañía del consejero de Telefónica: un amigo, un socio, un compañero. Mientras, y antes de anunciar su arrivederci, nos va espetando con asombroso aplomo otra vuelta de tuerca. Siento asco, si acaso nostalgia, de que un sector de la izquierda reconocida no haya sabido purgar sus desvaríos políticos ni transmitir alternativa real. Asco del particular partidismo de la abstención que se empeña en desfigurar el ágora española. Asco de que la ley electoral siga siendo lo que es. Lo apolítico es como la asexualidad: se lo folla todo.

Friday, April 22, 2011

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.


Monday, April 18, 2011

DK qumran

[español más abajo]

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.

Friday, April 15, 2011

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.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

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

Friday, April 1, 2011

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.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

A hidden poetic space behind electronic branches - Chorro de Luz

www.chorrodeluz.net
I think that it could be a good reason to break these long weeks of intellectual dryness by telling you some really worthwhile news. And that it is not exactly "news", because it is something that began to work certain time ago. Anyway, for me was a totally illuminated moment when few days ago I found by chance in the Internet Chorro de Luz (something that could be translated as "Stream of Light"), a fascinanting broadcasting adventure carried out by the journalist and music critic Ismael G. Cabral based in the city of light, Seville [SP].

Chorro de Luz is an interesting Spanish-spoken showcase, via both radio and blog, on very carefully selected contemporary music with excellent commentaries that invite you once a week to reflect on creation, actuality and diverse artistic approaches around music. if you are around Seville, you could follow it in Radiópolis 98.4 FM / Sevilla, Monday from 17.00 to 18.00 (repetition on Friday from 15.30 to 16.30). If not, you could search it at the Internet, in www.chorrodeluz.net, where besides downloading any program in mp3 format, you can read extended posts on the music displayed. I wish you enjoy this weekly treasure.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Metal splinters, helicopters with umbrella and PVC voices


EXTRUSION [2010]
8-channel tape piece
Ángel Arranz

'Everything is curved'. So did my dear colleague Casper Schipper define his first listening to Extrusion, the second electronic piece from a series of four works, which I expect to finish in 2011. Maybe it is because of my renewed interest in Baroque aesthetics, maybe because of a more aware use of the spatial/temporal qualities of the materials, certainly it results in a more flexible approach to time than even in my previous electronic piece, Electronic Study. The piece was composed thinking about the features of the space in which it has been premiered, the Schoenbergzaal of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. To a certain extent, in Extrusion sounds seem to be closer to the limits of the space they inhabit. I have always found especially suitable the apparently austere concavities of the Schoenbergzaal, an architectural compound of solid bricks and wood. In order to develop spatial gestures of sounds in a physical way, the hall is not hugely big as a large concert hall, but long and wide –and high- enough as to magnify some sonic gestures, which draw a completely new impression of the space fed by the music. So, space becomes a sort of instrument just in the moment when you try to modify the perceptions that the audience have about it in a virtual way along a deconstructed timeline.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Institute of Sonology - Discussion Concert Series - 7th May

Institute of Sonology
Discussion Concert Series
DC #5 – 7th May, 2010
Arnold Schoenbergzaal, 19:30
Royal Conservatory of The Hague

Works of G.M. Koenig, Adalsteinsson, Zweerts, Vinton, Van Paemel/Braet, Konstantinidou, Li and Arranz.


Next Friday 7th May the last Discussion Concert of this season will be celebrated at the Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In this occasion the concert will be attended by G.M. Koenig, who will open the program with ‘Ubung fur klavier’, a piece of 1970 interpreted by the Japanese pianist Akane Takada. The program, quite varied in genres, is basically conformed by tape pieces, improvised music, instrumental music, live electronics pieces and dance.

Friday, April 23, 2010

ARTe SONoro – La Casa Encendida, Madrid

La Casa Encendida

23rd April to 30th June

www.lacasaencendida.es

La Casa Encendida organizes the first exhibition in Madrid dedicated to sonic arts, ARTe SONoro. This show wants to bring closer a variety of forms and complexity of sonic arts developed during the last decade. The work of various Spanish artists and international artists conforms the show.

Further information at:

http://www.lacasaencendida.es/LCE/lceCruce/0,0,73537_2238427_73535%24P1%3D16,00.html

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Isidro Blasco exhibition - Aquí Huidizo - Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid


c/ Alcalá, 31
28014 Madrid
17th March to 16th May, 2010
Tu. to Sa. 11:00 to 20:30
Su. 11:00 to 14:00
free entrance

Unlike the general chaotic mood last days and the collective hysteria by trip colapses, certain news about a threatening volcano incarnated in the god Thor and serious announcements in the meantime of a new crisis originated over the worldwide airplane sector, unlike the trapped feeling of willing to escape the tyrannical permanence of Madrid architecture and the endless sensation of a Europe that suddenly converts into an enormous abstraction surrounded by cumulus of imaginary ashes and distorted hallucinations from the media, we found another more interesting chaos, organic and silent, formed by real memories and pieces of life meticulously (dis)ordered on wooden structures, delicately bent photographic sheets and imaginary streets that at the same time are real, mental territories seen at once. So, it could be defined doubtlessly as a true pleasure. Fiction over fiction equals real, chaos over chaos equals something pretty close to exquisite order.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Two interviews with Paul Berg and Kees Tazelaar


Indeed, this is a special event for sonologists, musicologists, composers and in general for lovers of electronic music. Two interviews with Paul Berg and Kees Tazelaar repectively have been published by the composer and musicologist Ángel Arranz. These interviews were realized during 2009 within the framework of the Institute of Sonology of The Hague.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Ángel Arranz: composer, sonologist and musicologist


We would like to announce the release of the website of the composer Ángel Arranz.

Ángel Arranz [1976] is a Spanish composer who lives and works in The Netherlands as an associate researcher at the Institute of Sonology of The Hague.

His music explores hybridization between acoustical instruments and electronics, spatiality in several plans of the musical realization and multi-instrumental assemblage. As a sort of mental territories, his music explores basically the utilization of time as a constructional matter through applied mathematics. He has developed an interesting algorithmic composition environment based on the utilization of waveforms [also named 'seeds'], which work as controllers of the musical parameters, being used in turn to control the field where instruments are written. Seeds control the smallest aspects of the composition as well as the most general structures.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

The dK Projection Blog

Welcome to the dK <Projection> blog

This is the blog of The dK <Projection> a new cultural platform that revolves around contemporary music, interdisciplinary arts, especially the relationship between architecture and music and electroacoustic music.

From now on, in this blog you can find interesting items related with electronic music, computer music, algorithmic composition, references to a variety of sonological subjects, such as architecture and music, literature related to it, articles, interviews, et cetera. Also, this is will be the place in which we will announce our activities and calendar.

We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoy writing it!

All the best,
the dK <Projection> Team