Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection

Music Selection

Los Peces Los Peces is a work for magnetic tape, drawn from a single sound source: the piano.	Valsa Sideral This short piece was composed in 1962 in the private studio of the composer in Rio de Janeiro.
Interludio con Máquinas This work was composed using the sound of various types of industrial machinery and a rotary printing press.	Interpolaciones Interpolaciones is a piece for electric guitar and four-track magnetic tape.
Invención The only sound sources are electronic sound waves and filtered noise.	Móvil II Tape created in 1972 in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, using the violin as sole sound source.
Tres movimientos para cinta magnetofónica The three musical movements of this piece are Allegro, Adagio and Presto.	Analogías Paraboloides This 1970 composition was the first piece created using the Analog Graphic Converter.
El Glotón de Pepperland In this piece, Martinez did not use electronic oscillators but rather a controlled feedback chain based on resonant filters.	Alternancias Alternancias present various combinations of live instruments with electronic sounds on tape.
Humanofonía Humanofonía I provides a fascinating look at human voices.	Voz Voz is above all a joyful piece that evokes instinctive passion and celebrates love, pleasure, peace and humour.
Bolivianos...! This piece was originally conceived as part of the unfinished opera Perdido Viajero.	Parca This piece was realized using an ARP 2600 electronic sound synthesizer.
Nuestra cultura vegeta This was my first electronic music work, composed when I was 20 years old.	Glaciation The piece begins with the exposition of four different sound materials.
interferences III There is an axial note, Db, out of which some sounds escape occasionally, only to return.	Integrados The composition is built over two alternating materials. They appear juxtaposed at first, and then superposed.
Apuntes con Refrán This is a sketch of a "multiple solo" for acoustic and electroacoustic instruments.	Catenaria Catenaria is based on a basic matrix of seven sounds.
Pericón This piece is composed of variations on Pericón, a well known folk tune from Uruguay.	Voice Solo The primary concept for a major project on glossolalies was presented for the first time in 1989.
Pulsar : El Caribe All of the sound material in this piece is based on X-ray emissions from a pulsar captured by a Radio Telescope.	Névoas e Cristais This work is based on a dialogue between a computer and a vibraphone that produces MIDI events in real-time.
Tierra y Sol All sonic materials were derived from ancient Andes woodwind instruments.	Esa medalla me quema el pecho... This piece is dedicated to the struggled waged by the people of Puerto Rico to get the Navy off the municipal island of Vieques.
Encuentros Televisivos The switch swivels around and around, seeking an image that will breathe life into the spectator's existence.	Mármore The electroacoustic sounds come from a marble surface rubbed with various metal, glass and clay objects.
Chryseis This is a composition for systems that mimic the vibrational properties of a musical sound.	Estrellas Compactas In this piece, as in nearly all the electroacoustic music in the Schaeffer tradition, the recording of the sounds is the starting point of the work.