Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection

alcides lanza, arghanum IV (1987-III), 1987
(Argentina)



Recording time: 17 min 11 s.
Instruments: Electroacoustic music
Recorded at: Composer' studio (SHELAN Studio) and McGill University EMS. Montreal, QC, Canada.

Other resources available:
- Biography of alcides lanza
- Compositions by alcides lanza

About this composition:

This work also utilizes the sampling methodology desribed for arghanum III. The sources for materials were the vocal pieces penetrations VII and ekphonesis V [written for and recorded by Meg Sheppard], and the percussion pieces sensors I and sensors V. arghanum IV also includes instrumental, industrial and human sonic events rescued via sampling from the recent past.

arghanum [Gk. Organon]: Arabic name for a Byzantine organ, according to the writer Ibn Khurdadkbih [9th century] the word 'arghanum' was interpreted as meaning "1000 voices".
Realized at the composer's own studio [Studio SHELAN]. Some digital processing was done with a Synclavier II Digital Synthesizer at the EMS, McGill University.

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