L'ISLA DES NEUMAS

Sound/Light/Environment von Ramón González-Arroyo im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Die Sammlung"
Do, 12.06.2008 - Do, 29.01.2009

L'ISLA DES NEUMAS

Sound/Light/Environment von Ramón González-Arroyo im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Die Sammlung"
Do, 12.06.2008 - Do, 29.01.2009
Der spanische Komponist Ramón González-Arroyo ist ein Meister der immersiven Klangräume, in denen man sich selbst und die Zeit vergessen kann. Sein Environment L'ISLA DES NEUMAS (entstanden 2007 für eine Klangkunst-Ausstellung in San Sebastián) wird in der Galerie #7 des Essl Museums als geheimnisträchtige Klanginsel inszeniert.
Der spanische Komponist Ramón González-Arroyo ist ein Meister der immersiven Klangräume, in denen man sich selbst und die Zeit zu vergessen kann. Seine Environment L'ISLA DES NEUMAS (entstanden 2007 für eine Klangkunst-Ausstellung in San Sebastián) wird in der Galerie #7 des Essl Museums als geheimnisträchtige Klanginsel inszeniert: Der in bläuliches Dämmerlicht getauchte Raum ist mit 7 Lautsprechern bestückt, die sich als Objekte an den Wänden und am Boden befinden. Die Bewegungen der verschiedenen Klangtexturen erzeugen einen hypnotischen Sog, dem man sich bedingungslos hingeben kann. Denn es gibt viel zu entdecken, wenn man man den einzelnen Klangströmen nachspürt und ihren zarten Gesprächen lauscht...


Ramón González-Arroyo

Born 1953 in Madrid. Musical studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid. Composition with Luis de Pablo and C. Bernaola. Courses on composition with Franco Donatoni and electro-acoustic music with Horacio Vaggione. Studies in Electronic and Computer Music at the Instituut voor Sonologie of the University of Utrecht (Werner Kaegi, Gottfried Michael Koenig) and The Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Seminars on computer music at IRCAM and GRM in Paris.

In parallel to his compositional work, he has been active also in the domain of musical research, particularly in the fields of computer aided composition and the musical control of sound synthesis. Projects, realized at different european institutions such as ZKM (Karlsruhe), IRCAM (Paris) and the Sonology Department of the Conservatory of The Hague. Important to first mention the intensive collaboration with Gottfried Michael Koenig in his different computer music projects PR1, PR2 and PR3.

Later, in 1993 at ZKM, came FOO, a software package for the composition of music with sound synthesis, designed and developed with Gerhard Eckel. FOO was further developed thanks to an institutional collaboration between IRCAM and the ZKM, and has recently been implemented in the Linux and the OSX platforms with the incorporation into the project of Martin Rumori.

During the last years he has intensely collaborated in LISTEN, an European research project, comprising the collaboration of different institutions (GMD, IRCAM, AKG, the Kunst Museum Bonn and the University of Vienna), and aiming at the design of a tool for the creation of immersive audio augmented environments. In 2003, Raumfaltung, a multidisciplinary installation created in collaboration with Gerhard Eckel, Oswald Egger and Beat Zoderer, was presented at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, as the final public presentation of an artistic project realized with the developed tools.

His music, embracing both the instrumental and the electroacoustic worlds, has been programmed at different international festivals such as the Bartok Festival, Wien Modern, Multiphonies, Musiques en Scéne, Multimediale or Berliner Inventionen. His latest works include Philía-Neikos for piano and electronics, comissioned by the GRM; 'Twixt tinged twining threads for instrumental ensemble, commisioned by the Essl Collection; Streams, Extremes & Dreams, a 24-channel electronic piece commissioned by ZKM; and A Media Luna, a 16-channel electronic piece commisioned by the GRM and premiered at the Maison de Radio France in May 2004.
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