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New Music for Digital Keyboard

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New Music for Digital Keyboard

SNE | SNE 556 | 1989

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1. Canzona (1988) 12m21s sne_556-1.1 | 14304 |

Composer: Sergio Barroso

Premiere: 1988, Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

The title refers to the early Renaissance instrumental compositions bearing this generic term to define simply ‘an instrumental composition.’ The piece keeps specific contact with its sixteenth-century ancestors through an extremely dense and ornate polyphonic style, an open continuous structure, certain expressive moods and twists, and the smiling recreation of sound colors and compositional resources of that musical epoch such as echo and pian e forte effects. Except for the use of wholetone and harmonic series tuning systems, the piece is fully microtonal in order to achieve the resulting timbres and textures. The microtunings, ranging from quarter-tone to thirty-second of a tone, are combined in either complex single color or multi-timbral blocks.

Canzona was realized with a Yamaha DX7II/E! keyboard synthesizer and a TX802 synthesizer at Ireme studio in Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) in late 1988 and was premiered shortly after in a recital of new music for digital keyboard I performed at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Canzona was first released on the compact disc New Music for Digital Keyboard, on the SNE label (SNE 556) in 1989. The present version has been remastered at Ireme studio in Vancouver in 1995.

All pieces were produced and recorded at Ireme studio in Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada), between June 1994 and February 1995 by Sergio Barroso assisted by Michael Maguire. Neuman and AKG microphones were used for recording the mixed pieces.

2. El Reposo del Fuego (1987) 16m14s sne_556-1.2 | 17624 |

Composer: John Oliver

3. Trajectoires (1987-88) 10m18s sne_556-1.3 | 17625 |

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Sergio Barroso, keyboard

Premiere: January 31, 1988, Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City, Mexico)

Some simple paths, clearly traced with elements of surprise and unexpected detours, Trajectoires is a live electroacoustic piece in five moments for solo DX7/E! and TX7 digital FM synthesis instruments. By choosing a limited instrumentation and a limited sonic world — one timbre per moment — the composition focuses on sonic gestures, the articulation and animation of each timbre. It is by playing and reshaping the initial sounds that each timbre reveals its very own gestures. In addition to the DX7 keyboard, velocity attack, key pressure, modulation wheel, and sustain pedal are extensively used, as well as the E! card detune and sound spatialization capabilities. In general, the timbres cover a wide register region — like a cloud of sound — rather than a narrow or limited sonic spectrum. The score is written in relatively traditional music notation, more to indicate performance gestures than pitches or precise time values.

Trajectoires was composed for Sergio Barroso in the summer of 1987 and premiered by him in Mexico City at the Rufino Tamayo Museum on January 31st, 1988. The piece was awarded a mention in the live electroacoustics category at the 16th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France) in June 1988. A new moment composed in October 1988 at the Grame studio in Lyon (France) is incorporated to the piece which was released on compact disc (SNE 556) by the Société nouvelle d’enregistrement (SNE) (Montréal, Québec).

4. Soledad (1987-88) 23m45s sne_556-1.4 | 17626 |

Composer: Sergio Barroso

Sergio Barroso: New Music for Digital Keyboard: track detail

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