What is electroacoustic music?

"What is electroacoustic music?"

"What is electroacoustics?"

1. One of the most important musical revolutions. It marks a before and after in the history of sound.

"What does your revolution consist of?"

In turning sound into matter!

"Sound turned into matter?"

A through technology (computers) the electroacoustics allows manipulater the sound to to transform its parameters (contour, color, brightness, resonance space, size, height or mass).). And the compositional work becomes something very close to sculpting: You mold and directly transform your sound materials in direct relation to what you hear.

"What kinds of sounds does electroacoustics work with?"

Sonduced sounds. The referential charge acquires a brutal forcefulness. Electroacoustics as a metaphor of the real.

"How does someone who composes electroacoustic music think?"

Let's listen to John Cage (1912-1992):

"We want to capture and control these sounds, use them as musical instruments. The sound of a truck at 80 km/h, the static between radio stations. The rain. With technological tools we can control the amplitude and frequency of the sounds; compose a quartet for explosive engine, wind, heartbeat and sleigh."

"Who was the first Mexican to compose electroacoustic music?"

Carlos Jimenez Mabarak (1916-1994) with The paradise of the drowned (1957) for tape and radiophonic noises produced with straw and water.. Le were followed by Eduardo Mata (1942-1995) and Guillermo Noriega, who created Studies on Solitude (1963) jointly, and Francisco Núñez with The Logarithms of the Dane (1968).

"What do these pieces sound like? Where can I listen to them?"

The three are lost. Documents prove their existence, but no one knows who has them, what they sound like or even where they were made.. Tverything indicates that in another countryfor, at that time, there were no there were no electroacoustics laboratories in Mexico.

"When were the conditions right for composing electroacoustic music in Mexico?"

Ehe first Mexican experimental music laboratory was opened at the National Conservatory of Music in at 1970. The following year Héctor Quintanar, a pioneer of electroacoustics in Mexico, organized the first acousmatic concert in the country at the Compañía de Luz y Fuerza (there are no performers; the music is projected by loudspeakers)., where he premiered three of his works (Ostinato, Sideral III y Symphony). In 1980 Francisco Núñez opened et the Escuela Superior de Música the first electroacoustics laboratory and in 1987 he founded the First Computer Music Laboratory.

"An example of a piece that uses electroacoustics?"

"What electroacoustic piece would you recommend I listen to?"

It can be Study(1961) by the Danish composer Else Marie Pade (1924-2016), where records waves, wind and edits his sounds towards white noise.. Thishe metaphor of the sea works until the end of the piece as a soft landscape that is continuously interrupted by various industrial sound existences, such as machines, buildings and cables. such as machines, buildings and cables.