Trigger

(2021)

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for electric guitar with effects processor

duration: 13'

written for Ricardo Cuadros Pradilla

commission from Resonar meeting between composers and performers

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Ricardo Cuadros Pradilla, electric guitar and processes

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first performance: August 28, 2021, CheLA

second performance: December 29, 2021

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(trigger: cause something to start, provoke, set in motion, make work)

The piece exposes the tension that occurs between the juxtaposition and superposition of very concise and diverse sound materials, which present a wide spectrum of characteristics that range from the crude, the rough, to the delicate and subtle. These tensions are manifested at the level of materials and processes, giving rise to a formal configuration that, at times, it avoids predictability, and at others, it uses it to its advantage. Mainly, the integral concept that guides this search is that of the coexistence between poetics of the organic and the technological. At the same time, the sound universe of the work incorporates the connotative charge of the instrument, and uses it as a point of reference to move in a terrain that is transformed through the action of the instrumental technique.

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