L'ESPACE ACOUSMATIQUE

Elektro-akustische Raummusik von Ramón González-Arroyo

L'ESPACE ACOUSMATIQUE

Elektro-akustische Raummusik von Ramón González-Arroyo

Mi, 23.02.2005, 19:30 Uhr

Essl Museum

Die Akusmatik ist die Kunst der Projektion von Klängen im Raum. Ein wahrer Meister in diesem Fach ist der spanische Komponist Ramón González-Arroyo, der an diesem Abend exemplarische Werke seines vielschichtigen elektro-akustischen Oeuvres präsentieren wird.

Ramón González-Arroyo (Madrid): Komposition & Klangprojektion

Die Akusmatik ist die Kunst der Projektion von Klängen im Raum. Ein wahrer Meister in diesem Fach ist der spanische Komponist Ramón González-Arroyo, der an diesem Abend exemplarische Werke seines vielschichtigen elektro-akustischen Oeuvres präsentieren wird. Der Große Saal der Sammlung Essl wird dabei in ein „Ohrenkino" verwandelt und durch einer Vielzahl von räumlich verteilten Lautsprechern zum Klingen gebracht.

Programm

Ramón González-Arroyo (* 1953): Libro I (2000)
Ramón González-Arroyo (* 1953): Dorian (1986)
Ramón González-Arroyo (* 1953): De l'Infinito Universo et Mondi (1996)
Ramón González-Arroyo (* 1953): A Media Luna (2004)

Biographie

Ramón González-Arroyo: Born 1953 in Madrid. Musical studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid. Composition with Luis de Pablo and C. Bernaola. Courses on composition with Franco Donatoni and electro-acoustic music with Horacio Vaggione. Studies in Electronic and Computer Music at the Instituut voor Sonologie of the University of Utrecht (Werner Kaegi, Gottfried Michael Koenig) and The Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Seminars on computer music at IRCAM and GRM in Paris.

In parallel to his compositional work, he has been active also in the domain of musical research, particularly in the fields of computer aided composition and the musical control of sound synthesis. Projects, realized at different european institutions such as ZKM (Karlsruhe), IRCAM (Paris) and the Sonology Department of the Conservatory of The Hague. Important to first mention the intensive collaboration with Gottfried Michael Koenig in his different computer music projects PR1, PR2 and PR3. Later, in 1993 at ZKM, came FOO, a software package for the composition of music with sound synthesis, designed and developed with Gerhard Eckel. FOO was further developed thanks to an institutional collaboration between IRCAM and the ZKM, and has recently been implemented in the Linux and the OSX platforms with the incorporation into the project of Martin Rumori.

During the last years he has intensely collaborated in LISTEN, an European research project, comprising the collaboration of different institutions (GMD, IRCAM, AKG, the Kunst Museum Bonn and the University of Vienna), and aiming at the design of a tool for the creation of immersive audio augmented environments. In 2003, Raumfaltung, a multidisciplinary installation created in collaboration with Gerhard Eckel, Oswald Egger and Beat Zoderer, was presented at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, as the final public presentation of an artistic project realized with the developed tools.

His music, embracing both the instrumental and the electroacoustic worlds, has been programmed at different international festivals such as the Bartok Festival, Wien Modern, Multiphonies, Musiques en Scéne, Multimediale or Berliner Inventionen. His latest works include Philía-Neikos for piano and electronics, comissioned by the GRM; 'Twixt tinged twining threads for instrumental ensemble, commisioned by the Essl Collection; Streams, Extremes & Dreams, a 24-channel electronic piece commissioned by ZKM; and A Media Luna, a 16-channel electronic piece commisioned by the GRM and premiered at the Maison de Radio France in May 2004.

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