Edgar Barroso

Ana Cristina Couturier began his musical studies in the Faculty of Music University of Veracruz with Enrique Marquez and Laura Sosa. She continued her studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique Paris “Alfred Cortot” where she gets her diploma in Piano by unanimous decision, a Diploma in Piano Teaching and a Diploma in Chamber Music in the class of Nina Patarcec. Currently she is a holder of the National Program scholarship for academic excellence to continue his studies of development piano in the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris “Alfred Cortot” with Andre Gorog.

The City University of New York announces the second New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and Conference, to take place March 25-27, 2010 at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, and at other locations in New York City. A program of concerts, installations, demonstrations and other events is being planned.

The organizing committee for the Festival consists of Prof. Hubert Howe of Queens College, Paul Riker and Zachary Seldess of the CUNY Graduate Center, and Braxton Sherouse of the University of Florida.

Adjudication for the second New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival will be carried out by our international panel of judges. These judges will remain anonymous for the duration of the submission process.

About ACU - Particularly important in acupuncture is the free flow of Qi, it is commonly translated as “vital energy”. Acupuncture treatment regulates the flow of Qi, tonifying where there is deficiency, draining where there is excess, and promoting free flow where there is stagnation. An axiom of the medical literature of acupuncture is “no pain, no blockage; no blockage, no pain.” Acu is based on the idea of representing an ill sound organism full with blockages that eventually will heal by “pressing” specific points (speakers).

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March 25 - 27 2010 / New York City

The Savannah International Animation Festival, SIAF, founded by Hal Miles Imagimation Studios president Hal Miles, is the premiere animation festivalof the southeastern United States. 2010 is our inaugural year of SIAF here in the beautiful jewel of the south Savannah, Georgia and we plan on making it a magical one. More…

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This work was possible thanks to the support of the FILM STUDY CENTER AT HARVARD.

Feburary 5th & 6th, 2010 / USA

TALEA Ensemble

This piece is a labyrinth. First inspired by the painting “Dancers II” by Joan Miró, which took the piece into the categorization of a group of limited musical elements connecting and interacting by subtle lines and/or colors in the space (the same way as in the painting). And secondly the painting took Lunfarda to look for metaphors of movement between two persons. In other words the composer turned his attention into dancing. The piece was named Lunfarda because of the relationship with tango. Lunfardo is an argot of the Spanish language which developed at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in the lower classes in and around Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Some Tango lyrics use it very heavily. The piece mapped some of the “accents” of the movement of two tango dancers. Surprisingly enough, the movements were always different regardless of the music, they are independent, unstable and some of them improvised. This piece tries to recreate a dance (a piece) that posses the freedom of these Tango dancers seeking for a conversation by hearing the “body of the other”. The percussion elements function, is to expand these relations between the two elements and also to provide a disintegration process of the traditional characteristics of the cello and piano, and confuse them into percussion noise production devices. The percussion instruments are integrated in the musical phrases and are a vital part of the piece color. After all, Tango is a hybrid, the same way Lunfarda is.

February 27, 2010, 8 PM
Paine Hall, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

THE LOS ANGELES REEL FILM FESTIVAL WAS FOUNDED BY A GROUP OF INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS WHOSE AIM IS TO SEEK OUT, ACKNOWLEDGE, AND AWARD THE MANY TALENTED INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS AND WRITERS WHO MAY NOT GET THE RECOGNITION THEY DESERVE THROUGH MANY OF THE MORE POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL FILM FESTIVALS. THE LARFF RECOGNIZES FILMMAKERS AND SCREENWRITERS WHO DEMONSTRATE EXCEPTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT IN CRAFT AND CREATIVITY. ALL GENRES OF FILM, MUSIC VIDEOS AND SCRIPTS ARE ACCEPTED BY THE LARFF AND EACH WILL BE JUDGED THOROUGHLY BY ACCOMPLISHED AWARD WINNING DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS AND INDUSTRY EXECUTIVES. THE LARFF IS A VIRTUAL FESTIVAL THEREFORE YOUR WORLD PREMIER STATUS WILL NOT BE IN JEOPARDY FOR OTHER FILM FESTIVALS. Up to 410 AWARDS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN THE 10 CATEGORIES GIVIN FILMMAKERS AND WRITERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE NOTICED.

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January 30-12, 2009 / Los Angeles, California.

The superb violinist Gabriela Diaz will be in charge of the premiere.

Gabriela Diaz: This violinist holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in violin performance from the New England Conservatory, where she studied under James Buswell. She received numerous honors at the conservatory, including the Chadwick Medal, the highest recognition given to a graduate of NEC, and the John Cage Award. She is now actively involved in contemporary music concerts at the New England Conservatory, Harvard University and MIT. She is a member of the Callithumpian Consort, Radius, Firebird and White Rabbit Ensembles.

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John Knowles Paine Concert Hall
December 10-11 2009

International Film Festival Ireland

Qualified Festival IMDb Qualifying Festivals

A collaboration between composer Edgar Barroso, designer Yen-Ting Cho, filmmaker Aryo Danusiri, Kapsis is a 7 to 10 minute piece for flute, electro-acoustic music, and video art, which will be part of a multimedia operetta. It portraits the mesmerizing Nahua myth of a young girl who becomes a starfish. The goal is to represent the unrepresented, to provide though structured musical figuration an understanding of invisible forces and principles that regulated not only the myths and riddles nut a new narrative discourse.

This work was possible thanks to the support of the FILM STUDY CENTER AT HARVARD.

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September 4-11, 2010 / Ireland.

The third annual FESTIVUS Film Festival is coming up January 14-17, 2010 in Denver, Colorado.

A collaboration between composer Edgar Barroso, designer Yen-Ting Cho, filmmaker Aryo Danusiri, Kapsis is a 7 to 10 minute piece for flute, electro-acoustic music, and video art, which will be part of a multimedia operetta. It portraits the mesmerizing Nahua myth of a young girl who becomes a starfish. The goal is to represent the unrepresented, to provide though structured musical figuration an understanding of invisible forces and principles that regulated not only the myths and riddles nut a new narrative discourse.

This work was possible thanks to the support of the FILM STUDY CENTER AT HARVARD.

Watch “Kapsis” in the WORKS section of this website
(Better if listen with headphones)

January 14-17, 2010 / Denver, Colorado.

Launched in 1999, the da Vinci Film Festival began as part of the summer celebration of art, science, and technology, da Vinci Days. The original, a screening of animated films during the summer festival, has evolved into an established and well-attended annual celebration of independent film. Still a program of da Vinci Days, da Vinci Film Festival is now held in the spring, bringing audiences a variety of independent films from around the world, in several genres.

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March 12-14 2010

La Brújula la lleva el Muerto offical website

CONACULTA - Producciones Cinematográficas

Sinopsis

A la muerte de su madre, un niño parte a Estados Unidos en busca de su hermano mayor. En el camino se encuentra con un anciano que a poco subirlo a su carreta, muere. Intentando seguir el norte de la brújula atrapada en la mano del muerto, se le agregan personajes a una carreta surrealista que lleva el norte perdido.

Synopsis

After the pasing of the mother, a boy decides to venture to the United States of America in search of his older brother. His way he encounters an old man that not long after letting him on his horse wagon dies. The boy is forced to find the north direction from a compass that is trapped in the old man´s hand, many singular characters appear in this surreal journey in route to the north.

Sombrerete Zacatecas - México 12.11.2009