MEXICO

Alejandro EscuerRodrigo Sigal

José Luis García Nava

Interdisciplinary Concert Performance for Flute(s), Electronics, Audio Processing and

Real Time Video

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PROGRAM

Alejandro Escuer flutesRodrigo Sigal Electroacoustic music, real time sound manipulation and sound difussionJosé Luis García Nava real time video and visuals

El repertorio de Lumínico proviene de cientos de fuentes de sonido y de imagen que integran un numeroso corpus de obras, las cuales incluyen música electrónica y electroacústica combinada con improvisación en vivo, música contemporánea de concierto, música clásica y música folklórica de los cinco continentes. Estas fuentes son renovadas cada año para dar paso a nuevos programas. Cada concierto integra fragmentos de esas piezas y sonidos, entrelazándolos en vivo como si se tratara de una banda sonora, por lo que Lumínico evita el convencional enlistado de obras y compositores, para dar paso a una nuevo formato: Se trata de romper con clasificaciones o etiquetas comunes de la música de concierto y así evitar expectativas y liberarse de prejuicios en búsqueda de formas escénicas y sonoras originales, innovadoras y propositivas, mucho más integradoras y acordes con la complejidad y diversidad propias de la sociedad contemporánea.

Lumínico 2011 incluye obras de Rodrigo Sigal, Alejandro Escuer, Gabriela Ortiz, Jacob TV, Alejandro Viñao, Alejandro Castaños, Felipe Pérez Santiago, y en lo visual curaduría y manipulación en tiempo real de José Luis García Nava.________________________

The repertoire of Lumínico comes from hundreds of sources of sounds and images which include art photography, prerecorded video, life image manipulation, electronic and electroacoustic music combined with live improvisation, contemporary concert music, as well as classical and folk styles in general. These sources are renewed each year to make way for new programs. Therefore, each concert includes fragments of this

comprehensive archive, weaving the chosen elements as if it were a soundtrack, a technique that deliberately avoids the conventional concert listing of works and composers. The idea is to explore new formats that not only avoid classifications, common tags or undesired expectations from the audience, but also are in search of a free more powerful flow of a dramatic uninterrupted line. The target is the emotional perception of a new listener ready to enjoy a show that aspires to be more inclusive of different music idioms and more responsive to the complexity, sophistication and diversity of contemporary society today.

Lumínico 2011 includes works by Rodrigo Sigal, Alejandro Escuer, Gabriela Ortiz, Jacob TV, Alejandro Viñao, Alejandro Castaños, Felipe Perez Santiago, and the curatorial real-time video manipulation of José Luis García Nava.

www.alejandroescuer.comAlejandro Escuer (Ciudad de México, 1963) is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist and flute soloist who has developed his own artistic and visual foundations on music interpretation and electroacoustic composition, often related to his art photography and music improvisation techniques which have had an impact on his concerts and recordings with acclaimed reviews by TIME Magazine, New Music Connoisseur, Classical Music Review, American Record Guide and personalities such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Robert Dick, among many others. He is at ease performing with orchestra, improvising and composing electroacoustically for his instrument and piano, guitar, electronics, percussion, multimedia or a wide variety of mixed ensembles. Alejandro Escuer is a performer strongly related and influenced by perspectives that are usually related to the visual arts and the use of new technologies under the context of multicultural diversity and social awareness. Alejandro Escuer is an innovative artist that often incorporates into his music social, ecological or cultural issues of historical significance. As a soloist, he has been able to achieve a highly individual reputation, constantly seeking to broaden the interpretive, aesthetic and acoustical possibilities of the flute and other instruments in relation to the sounds of stones, water, sand, wind, andnumerous selected objects including the human voice. These ambitious goals have been further enhanced by his own explorations and discoveries of new expressive instrumental techniques on his instrument such as the use and development of electroacoustic manipulations in combination with resources such as circular breathing, microtonality, triple trills and other mixed techniques, as well as his own way to improvise on a double bass and on a custom

made sub-contra bass flute. He has earned many prizes and recognitions including the Interpretes con Trayectoria National Recognition Award (2010-2013) granted by Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes FONCA, Fulbright García Robles for a posdoctoral residency, Rockefeller Foundation Award, Mexico en Escena National Award in many occasions among others. Alejandro Escuer is also an active scholar (full time tenure faculty at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México- Escuela Nacional de Música), and as such he has been giving master classes and concert-lectures across the American continent, including Columbia University, Indiana University, University of California, etc. Alejandro Escuer has been a driving force for the consolidation of a new music movement in Mexico. He founded www.onixensamble.com in 1993 and since then the group has been a key element in the Mexican music scene. He has been the artistic director and producer of more than two hundred concerts during the last fifteen years with more than one hundred premieres from México dedicated to him. He has been featured as a flutist and artist in many places, including Japan, The U.S. (Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc), China, Canada, Austria, Poland, France, England, Spain, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, among many others. Alejandro Escuer holds degrees from Conservatorio Nacional de Música (B.A.) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (B.A. Sociology of Music). He obtained his soloist degree from Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam in 1991 (M.A./Uitvoerend Musicus), and earned a doctorate in 1995 from New York University (Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy in Music). As a soloist he has recorded four albums: Jade Nocturno (1998), Aqua (2000), Aire Desnudo (2007) (http://www.quindecim.com.mx/) and Folklore Imaginario (2010) as well as other albums as artistic director of Onix Ensemble: El Tiempo (1997), Planos (1998) grupo Actus; Cinco (2001), Laberintos (2006) and Laberintos (2006) published by Urtext Digital Classics. www.alejandroescuer.com

www.rodrigosigal.comRodrigo Sigal (www.rodrigosigal.com) (Mexico City-1971) Holds a PhD in Electroacoustic composition from City University in London and a BA in composition from the Musical Studies and Research Center (CIEM) in Mexico City, and was part of the composition workshop directed by Prof. Mario Lavista. He also studied with Denis Smalley, Javier Alvarez, Franco Donatoni, Judith Weird, Michael Jarrel and Juan Trigos among others. Since 1991 he has been working as composer, sound and recording engineer in his private studio in Mexico and London, composing for dance, video, radio and T.V., and he was the coordinator of the Computer Music Lab at the CIEM from 1994 until 1998. He has received awards from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), The CIEM, The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, ORS and The Sidney Perry Foundation in England and the LIEM Studios and The Ministry of Culture in Spain,

the 1st. Prize (Cycles, 1999), honorary mentions (Tolerance, 2000 and Twilight, 2001) at the Luigi Russolo Composition Prize and finalist at Bourges 2002 (Twilight). Some of his works are available on CD, and his CD "MANIFIESTO" (CIEM006), has received positive reviews and radio broadcast in Mexico and abroad. His music has been performed in over 20 countries around the world. Since 1998 takes active part in DAM (www.dam-music.com), a group of six composers that is working on different interdisciplinary projects including ?Altenative Sessions? with The Maarten Altena Ensemble presented in Mexico, France and The Netherlands. He recently finished ?Blood Stream? for the Spanish tubist Jes?s Jara with concerts in Spain, Brazil and Argentina. His recent project, "Rimbarimba: Lejos del silencio" for marimba and electroacustic sounds, was commissioned by Robert Esler (New Haven, CT) with funds from a Rockefeller-FONCA grant. The piece has been performed in M?xico, USA, The Netherlands, Argentina, Brazil and England. He also completed ?Liquid Fear? for ten instruments,electronics and video for the Maarten Altena Ensemble. He now lives and works in Santiago de Chile. Future activities include new pieces for wind quintet and electronics, trio and electronics, music for film, flute and electronics and a piano and orchestra concerto with electroacoustic sounds. His new solo CD Space within(CIEM007) with electroacoustic music is out now from www.rodrigosigal.com.

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