Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection

Rodrigo Sigal, Twilight, 2001
(Mexico)



Recording time: 13 min 22 s.
Instruments: For bassoon and electroacoustic sounds

Other resources available:
- About Rodrigo Sigal
- Compositions by Rodrigo Sigal

About this composition:

Four continuos movements exploring the same number of different types of Twilight. Civil, Nautical , Astronomical twilight and true night.

The piece seeks to explore these four stages but within a soundworld where the bassoon is the leader and the tape becomes what defines the boundaries of the relationships.

Sound material for the tape part and general musical ideas develop basically from bassoon gestures that try to evoke the daily and almost imperceptible process of light fading away and night covering the sky.

Relationships which work as structural points tray to experiment with the fact that light, specially sunlight, and sound are more closely related than we think,. That sunset is not necessarily a slow-movement process.

The piece was created at LIEM-CDMC with help from the Spanish Ministry for Culture and at London City University's Electroacoustic Music Studios in 2000, and finished in 2001.

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