Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection

Patricia Martinez, Espejos de tiempo, 1994-2002
(Argentina)



Recording time: 5 min 20 s.
Instruments: Acousmatic
Recorded at: Composer' studio. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Remarks: Fragment.

Other resources available:
- About Patricia Martinez
- Compositions by Patricia Martinez

About this composition:

Mirrors of time is an acousmaticpiece that have two parts (symmetry in time). This work is the attempt to effect the musical impression of a plastic work, to describe not the painting, but the first impact of the subject _my own impression_ of that almost automatic and hardly apprehensible moment of meeting to the visual, temporally embodied in music.

The concept that I have developed is the challenge of trying to transfer some mechanisms of aesthetic and temporal perception of visual art to an art apparently opposite in essence, form and content, as music is.

I wanted to turn, for the listener, during the hearing of a work, chronological time (implacably continuous) into psychological time, where the flow of music is transformed into sound paths seeking to exalt only "the instant".

In general, I worked on the composition of compact and regular sound structures, layers or walls of complex sound that are being juxtaposed, superimposed or distorted, gaining mobility and independence through the musical discourse.

Acerca de la obra:

Es una obra electroacústica que empecé a componer desde 1994, y que tiene la forma (provisoria?) de Espejos de tiempo a partir de 2002.
Tiene dos secciones casi simétricas temporalmente.

El concepto que utilicé en la pieza es el intento de trasladar ciertos mecanismos de la percepción visual al lenguaje musical.

La obra juega con el "impacto" sonoro como material perceptivo superficial, y trabaja con entretejidos tímbrico-rítmicos formando texturas que se van movilizando en diferentes niveles formales (acercamientos-alejamientos).

El oído-ojo recorre ilusoriamente lo que podría ser una trama acústica, pero sin perder de vista las articulaciones internas del discurso sonoro.

Obra ganadora del 2do Premio del Concurso Internacional de Música Electroacústica Diffusion - University of Limerick (Irlanda).

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