The Game changers #4. With a portrait of sound designer and composer Gustavo Chab.
Gustavo Chab is an experimental composer and sound designer. Educated in Buenos Aires he studied harmony, counterpoint and composition with Daniel Montes and Francisco Kropfl. He was an active member of Otras Musicas Group and FARME of Buenos Aires. He composed his first electroacoustic piece Mirada Roja in 1993, specializing in composition techniques in electroacoustics. He has received-among many awards – a special mention of the Municipality of Buenos Aires, first prize of the FNA, and honorable residence in the International Electroacoustic Music Competition at Bourges. His compositions, including works for instrumental, digital and mixed media, electronic music, acousmatic art, visual poetry, music theater and performances. Frequently explores the spacialisation of sound in composition mixing electroacoustic sounds, vocal sounds and acoustical instruments.
Since 2014 is member of Sonoridades Alternativas of Buenos Aires.
Gustavo Chab – electroacoustic music:
1/ Mirada Roja. (“red sight”, first piece 1992). Electronic Music, is a homonym of an expressionist painting by Arnold Schönberg (1910).
This piece tries to convey the expressive power of the picture. The imaginary voice emerges from the center of the picture, evoking transformation as an emotive symbol. At the same time, the sight stands out from its dramatic environment. Here, the yearning for change is also an illusion poetically expressed. The material is given a meaning and a temporal reference, having as a starting point the aesthetic value that the author elaborates in relation to a time and work. The material acts and dilutes itself, and throughout the three sections of the piece it modulates from an electronic voice simulation towards a real chorus. This work was completed at LIPM, using a DX7 and a Synclavier II.
2/ Dedálico 2007 -2008. Another common Dalíesque image emerge slowly. Dalí’s theory of “softness” and “hardness”, which was central to his thinking at the time. As Dawn Ades wrote, “The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order”
3/ Lever-k acousmatic music – 2007 – 2008. stereophonic quadraphonic 4.50 ”
Parmegiani influences:
Musique concrète set out to expose the intrinsic value of sounds, effacing their symbolic or musical significance. In the process, a number of composers have given an added dimension to their work by participating in the intellectual developments of their time.
..distance hums, sudden silences, abrupt clicks and burst of sound an epic work like La Creation Du Monde are many influences that decided to explore.
4/ Etérea Ethereal Futura I (violin performer and tape) “lightness and unsubstantial lacking material form containing or dissolved in ether”.
Performer plays and creates event interacting with graphic scores, tapes and live electronics.
Eterea – Ethereal – version 2015-2016 – for violin – playback as interactive electronic elements, live electronics.
Producing octaphonic surround concerts – LIPM interaction between electronic violin, cd tapes and pre prepared sounds are remixed. Octaphonic system and speakers addressed as four stereo pairs fed by eight mono channels with a circular numbering; beginning with speakers 1/2 on the stage, followed by 3/4 5/6 and 7/8 behind the audience.
Playback as interactive electronic elements – surround expression – stereo sound transmission.
5/ Dibujos sobre el plano I – II 2012 – 2013
Drawings architectural design – geometrical construction – graphics lines interpenetrating.. disappearing transforming figures – mirrors and optics
forms – grains of matter – Mini and Macro structures that can be made thanks computer technology, software like Spear of Michael Klingbeil Matter. Pulsar – excerpt (2014) – The precise periods of pulsars make them useful tools. Certain types of pulsars rival atomic clocks in their accuracy in keeping time. the light is pointed in the direction of an observer, and is responsible for the pulsed appearance of emission. They have regular rotational periods. This produces a very precise interval between pulses that range from roughly milliseconds to seconds for an individual pulsar. “A kind of background roar to the universe, incessant regular waves crashes round the audience”.
Berberan mix – excerpt (2015 / 2016) a gesture associated with Berberian….
6/ Etérea Ethereal Futura I. (violin performer and tape). “lightness and insubstantiality lacking
material form containing or dissolved in ether”. Performer plays and creates event interacting
with graphic scores, tapes and live electronics
Etérea Ethereal is an speculative composition, a creative form of working with sonic material, is an open source / is a mental process that assemble ideas and series that not always is necessary to be heard / prototype is a musical systems / Intuitive improvisation with interactive electronics – graphic notation with electronic patches navigating scores with cartography and creative music combining live performance. Prototype will seek to explore image, ideas, concept, geometries, music notation and other combinations.
7/ Blending birds. Part III. (excerpt).
8/ Geminis.
