Searching your Synesthesia (2005) 14:35″ For Flute, Clarinte, Cello, Piano and Live Elecetronics

 

1rst Prize at the International
LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC COMPETITION 2006 – Harvard

SEARCHING YOUR SYNESTHESIA – for flute, cello, piano and live electronics by edgarbarroso

Synesthesia: faculty to experience sensations of a particular sense modality, provoked by a different one. The piece tries to literally “search” the sound Synesthesia of the audience and the performers. The PD live electronics is used as a tool to “expand” the instruments capabilities, and generate sounds and sensation of space provoked by a different source and location. The score is written in a progressive structure that is constantly using or recycling the acoustic and electronic material that it is transformed in several ways during time. The search for a very clear and programmed interaction between the acoustic players and the computer player is crucial, although there are moments of controlled indeterminacy.

Harvard University
Stephen Drury, conductor
Patti Monson, flute
Gary Gorczyca, Clarinet
David Russell, cello Edgar Barroso, Live Electronics

Listen to the Final Concert

ES TU DANZA (2004) 10:12″
For Symphonic Orchestra

“Es tu Danza” for Symphonic Orchestra by Edgar Barroso. Conducted by Jose Luis Castillo with the Guanajuato’s University Symphon from Edgar Barroso on Vimeo.

Orchestral work composed in 2004. The work was inspired by the thought of Erich Fromm (1900-1980), psychologist and social philosopher of German origin that mainly explores the interaction between psychology and society, and dedicated a good part of his work to deal with the phenomenon of the alienation of the modern man in the context of the world that surrounds it. The title Is your dance is related to the well-known phrase of Erich Fromm: I am you, looking for to create, by means of the use of some psychological and somatic references like the breathing and the heart rate. This was the first parameter search to the writing of the work. This piece, tries to obtain this connection by means of a orchestration of resistances, of sonorous weave masses or sonorous blocks to the solitary intervention of extreme pitch ranges. As far as the harmonic system, it is a work in which a series of matrix of 5 notes were used to multiplied and basically some resonances were delimited.