Musique électroacoustique latino-américaine

Juan María Solare, Voi ch'intrate, 2001
(Argentine)



Durée de l'enregistrement : 3 min 59 s.
Instruments : Pour bande

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À propos de cette composition :

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"Voi ch'intrate", for electronic sounds (stereo), is based exclusively upon the sound of the door of a toilet of the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin; it was made for "The Door Project" coordinated by John ffitch. The piece was planned in Mollina (Spain) on 10/JUL/2001 and made in Worpswede (Germany), in the composer's Studio, from 28/JUL-2/AGO/2001. Dedicated to the Argentinian mathematician Pablo Amster.

The piece was first broadcasted during an interview made to the composer by Marita Emigholz on 5/SEP/2001 in Radio Bremen (programme "Fresco"), and first performed in concert on 22/SEP/2001 at the Caturla Hall of the Amadeo Roldán Theater, La Habana, Cuba, during the ICMC 2001 (International Computer Music Conference).

The title comes from the most famous door of literature, described in Inferno, III, 9: "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" ("Abandon all hope, you who enter here").

Story and conditions of the Door Project:

The sound was "discovered" during the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) celebrated in Berlin in September 2000. The composers may present a piece for an off event in the ICMC following year, in Havanna.

"Absolute maximum of 4 mins duration, preferable shorter, as it will allow more pieces to be played; The sample or part of the sample must be the only source material; Composers must be willing to write or present a technical statement of what they did to create the piece; Anyone may enter, even if they did not hear the door in question."

After a first listening stays clear that the piece is made in 25 "islands", 25 very short variations.

The strucure of the piece is contained in a matrix, a greco-latin square given to me by the Rumanian guitarist Ioana Gandrabur:


1aAk 2eBl 3bCm 4cDn 5dEo

5bBn 3cEk 1eDo 2dAm 4aCl

2cCo 5aDm 4dBk 1bEl 3eAn

3dDl 4bAo 2aEn 5eCk 1cBm

4eEm 1dCn 5cAl 3aBo 2bDk


Notice that no letter or number is repeated in none of the five rows and columns, and that no combination of four elements is repeated in any cell of this matrix.


- The numbers 1..5 represent the Sample (I took five short fragments of the original sound, a few seconds as maximum).
- small letters a..e are the durations
- capital letters A..D are five Gestalten, five configurations that determine the superposition of events
- small letters k-l-m-n-o indicate the kind of transformations of the Sample.


The pitch system limits to rough indications about the registers, which evolution basically consists in that it first expands and later contracts.

The fundamental durations are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; but are recombinated as this (in seconds):

4 7 6 3 5 [sum: 25 (3*8.33)]
6.66 8 5.33 9.33 4 [sum: 33.3 (4*8.33)]
11.66 8.33 5 6.66 10 [sum: 41.66 (5*8.33)]
12 6 14 10 8 [sum: 50 (6*8.33)]
7 9.33 11.66 14 16.33 [sum: 58.3 (7*8.33)]


The transformations of the material were basically certain modulations, filters and slight reverberations, besides -logically- transpositions, stretchings and retrogradations.

Acerca de la obra :

"Voi ch'intrate", para sonidos electrónicos (estéreo), exlusivamente en base al sonido de la puerta de un baño de la Staatsbibliothek de Berlín, para "The Door Project" de John Ffitch. Planeada en Mollina (10/JUL/2001) y realizada en Worpswede, en el estudio del compositor, del 28/JUL-2/AGO/2001. A Pablo Amster. Estrenada el 22/SEP/2001 en la Sala Caturla del teatro Amadeo Roldán, La Habana, Cuba; durante la ICMC 2001 (International Computer Music Conference).

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