Tag: Acousmatic

Dead Bichitos – NoiseFloor 2024

Dead Bichitos at NoiseFloor 2024 Festival in Lisbon.

NoiseFloor began at Staffordshire University in 2010, aiming to showcase research and original works by international electronic music composers and performers. Initially, NoiseFloor focused on exploring the dialogue between popular and experimental music.

This year, the NoiseFloor festival will collaborate with the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa and take place in Lisbon, Portugal. This prestigious university will host the event, providing the necessary facilities and systems.

I am excited to announce that my composition, “Dead Bichitos,” will be performed at this festival during the Composers Week Concert on May 28, 2024, at 20:30.

The inspiration behind “Dead Bichitos” may seem grim, but it reflects my subjective impressions of our times. Humanity is slowly immersing itself in the stagnant waters of its own complacency. Unable to see beyond its narrow horizon, it continues to believe itself the center of creation, attempting to solve problems with the same flawed ideas that created them. Futile.

We are merely “Dead Bichitos,” our once golden future fading into obscurity, shrouded by the fog of our evident lethargy. Dead Bichitos.

The ease of habitual mechanization is preferred over resisting the current that leads us toward a gray future, where we will vanish like… Dead Bichitos.

“Dead Bichitos” symbolizes the inertia of our ideas, passively drifting towards a future we dislike but are unwilling to change, for fear of losing the security it brings.

The composition, apart from two unique samples, is entirely synthesized. Granular synthesis plays a significant role in processing this material, along with spatialization techniques that create distinct soundscapes. These soundscapes form a melody of rooms, enhancing the immersive experience.

Dead Bichitos has been performed at the SICMF and DICMF in South Korea, at the ZKM in Karlsruhe and at the 23. Weimarer Frühjahrstage 2022 in Germany. At the latter it received the second prize and the audience award. The work has also been released on CD by DEGEM.

 

PROGRAM

Adam Stanovic – To US.S..S…
Jorge García del Valle Méndez – Dead Bichitos

Dead Bichitos – 23. Weimarer Frühjahrstage 2022

Next Friday, May 27, 2022, my work “Dead Bichitos” will be performed at the acousmatic music concert that will take place at the cultural center Mon Ami in Weimar (Germany).

This is the concert of the winning works of the International Acousmatic Music Competition organized by via nova e.V. as part of this 23rd Weimarer Frühjahrstage. It is a pleasure to be one of them!

The jury consisting of Helmut Zapf, Paul Hauptmeier, Johannes K. Hildebrandt and Ralf Hoyer selected the works of the composers Youngjae Cho (South Korea), Andrés Quezada (Chile) and Jorge García del Valle Méndez (Spain) from numerous submissions received from Germany and abroad. These will be presented alongside other works in the concert.

Do not hesitate to come if you are in Weimar. It would be a pleasure to meet you there.

PROGRAM

Youngjae Cho – Bumps on a stucco wall
Andrés Quezada – Asimetría
Jorge García del Valle Méndez – Dead Bichitos

as well as works by Paul Hauptmeier and Martin Recker, Ludger Kisters and Ralf Hoyer.

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Dead Bichitos – SICMF 2021

My work “Dead Bichitos” for electronic (Acousmatic, 2-Channels, Fixed Media) will be premiered on October 17th at the Seoul International Music Festival SICMF 2021 which this year takes place at PLATFORM-L Contemporary Art Center in Seoul in Seoul, South Korea. The KEAMS (Korea Electro-Acoustic Music Society) organizes this festival yearly.

The composition of this work has taken place after a long in-depth introspection process. It is based on the concepts of change and future in an immersive form that visualizes our internal human processes in a subjective way.

Humanity is slowly submerging itself in the stinking broth of its own idleness. Unable to see beyond its flat horizon, it continues to believe itself to be the center of creation. However, we are nothing more than Dead Bichitos.

Our future, which we once dreamed golden, slowly disappears, obscured by the fog of our evident languor. Dead Bichitos.

The mechanization of habit is more comfortable than opposing the current that flows towards a gray future in which we will disappear like … Dead Bichitos.

Dead Bichitos represents the indolence of our ideas that are left to flow mechanically towards a repulsive future.

The work is composed, with the exception of two single samples, using synthetic material. In the processing of this material, granular synthesis plays a major role, as well as spatialization, which is not only limited to spatial movement, but also to the creation of distinct sound spaces. These spaces compose a melody of rooms.

 

PROGRAM

Mara Helmuth – Opening Spaces

Erik Deerly – Amorph

남상봉 Sangbong Nam – IAIAI

Jorge García del Valle Méndez – Dead Bichitos

Kyle Shaw – Tamboo

오세린 Serin Oh – Fifuration

Nicola Fumo Frattegiani – Polvere nera

Charles S. Nichols – Time Garden: dawn replica

강중훈 Joonghoon Kang – I Want My Ears Feel Sweet

Mara Helmuth – Onsen: Hot Springs for vibraphone and stereo fixed audio