Solo Performance
I see each of my improvisations as a snapshot of the state in the development of my acoustical/technical/creative research. The style, technologies, and expressive intentions have significantly changed over the years but the use of the acoustic piano has remained as a constant. Even when I improvise only electronics and/or visuals, I treat the material with similar strategies where the notion of “structure” –sometimes recognizable, sometimes suggested- is of extreme importance. Another element that is important in my work –therefore in today’s improvisation- is the expressive potential of the musical human computer interaction. This interest has lead me to create digital partners not trying to replace live musicians nor trying only to sonically augment the instrument, but searching for compositional paradigms where machines could emphasize the human expression.
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Duo Juum
Juum Duet, (www.DuoJuum.net) integrated by Hugo Solís and Gabriela Villa, is a free electroacoustic improvisation ensemble created at the beginning of year 2006. Both musicians, native Mexicans, share interdisciplinary interests and education which include music, music technology, digital media and speech.
Plurifocal Events Controller
With the aim of having a framework for composition and interaction of sonic experiences spread over huge areas such as parks, field games, sea, deserts, and open spaces this work-on-progress helps controlling, scheduling, and organizing distributed events. The framework consist of a custom piece of hardware and also a plug-ing for the Juum software.
Juum Software
Juum is a piece of software that I am designing according to my own art requirements. It is not been developed as a generic solution to be used by others but as a personal framework for developing my work. The different modules have been included for specific art projects and an interesting feedback is emerging by breaking the bridge between the tool and the work piece. My artistic production is being influenced by my code, and my code is the result of my art creation. The exploration of this feedback paradigm is central to understand my future work.
Metaphors for Dead Pianos
A current art project supported by the FONCA is the development of a sound installation with four acoustic pianos dissemble and activated with actuators such as solenoids and dc motors. Some of the instruments are loosing their original forms, meanings, and sonic connotations but part some elements remain as traces and reincarnations.
