Germán Toro Pérez
Rulfo/voces I
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation details:
violin
viola
violoncello
Rulfo/voces I
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Germán Toro Pérez
Rulfo/voces I
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Orchestration: für Streichtrio und Elektronik
Type: Dirigierpartitur
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Work introduction
«Rulfo/voces I» is the first part of a cycle of five pieces for violin, viola, violoncello and live-electronics after the work of the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo (1917–1986). His work, consisting of a novel and 17 short stories, depicts rural Mexico at the time of the Mexican Revolution as a world marked by hopelessness and solitude. His poetic language, rough, unadorned and of deep musicality is language of myth, language of remembrance.
The pieces were initially intended as studies on melodic writing. «Rulfo/voces I» was composed after «Rulfo/voces III» for viola und live-Electronics. Here the monodic sound is split up in three voices in a similar way as the live electronics proceeds: it analyzes the sound at certain points, creates a resynthesis and transform it onto a composed resonance.
The piece was commissioned by Klangforum Vienna for the opening of their rehearsal studio and premiered by Annette Bik, violine, Dimitrios Polisoidis, viola, Benedikt Leitner, violoncello and Germán Toro Pérez, electronics.
What is necessary to perform this work?
Equipment:
Computer with 2-channel sound interface and software Max
Mixing desk: 8 in/2 out
2 loudspeakers LS1, LS2 on the ground
3 microphones on stands (1, 2, 3)
3 contact microphones (4, 5, 6)
The electronics consists of a patch for the software Max and will be provided by the composer on request ([email protected]).