Artist: Gustavo A. Delgado
www.gustavodelgado.it
The composition presents an eclectic dialectic between sounds achieved from fragmentation and transformation of “New York” word sung by Frank Sinatra along with numerous sound objects made from only five sampled sounds into a Parisian hotel room during my stay at Ina GRM (Groupe des Recherches Musicales). This short piece develops the argument of “transformation”, a such current issue of our contemporary societies where technologies are more and more present everywhere. The hypnotic character of the piece can be interpreted across several meanings. For me, the voice represents an apparent time immobility or frozen state along with some kind of energy that looks violently a way of expanding and to vanishing towards new recipients. The voice transforms, morphs, it does not belong any more to the singer, it becomes raw material. It is a way of escaping from the alienation that programmatic life bears towards the madness of non-belonging anymore to any place.
Gustavo Adolfo Delgado was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1976. Resident in Rome. He is an electroacoustic and mixed music composer whose artistic production involves electroacoustic orchestration, spectral morphing in concomitance with sound synthesis spreaded on dynamically and articulated sound microstructures into polyphonic virtual spaces.
He has got a “Master Degree in Electronic Music” at the Conservatory of Music “Santa Cecilia” of Rome with the highest honors under tuition of M° Giorgio Nottoli and a “Degree in Electronic Music” at the University of Quilmes (Buenos Aires, Argentina) under tuition of Professors Pablo Di Liscia, Carmelo Saitta and María Teresa Luengo. He has studied also electroacoustic music composition with James Dashow at Rome and composition with Francisco Kröpfl at Buenos Aires.
He is the current professor of Electroacoustic Music at the Conservatory of Bolzano (Italy) and he collaborates as a beta tester with the Ina GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) of Paris for the audio plugins suite "GRM Tools" testing.
He has taught "Electronic Music Composition”, "Computer Music", "Techniques and application of MIDI and Studio Recording", "Laboratory of live sound", "Laboratory of Recording and sound processing", "Artistic Production", "Music Business Research" and “Applied Music” at the Italian Conservatories “A. Vivaldi” of Alessandria, “O. Respighi” of Latina, “N. Sala” of Benevento and “N. Piccinni” of Bari.
From 2008 to 2011 he has been "Organizing Coordinator" of the International Electroacoustic Musica Festival "EMuFest" of the Conservatory of Music “Sta. Cecilia” of Rome. In 2011, he coordinated and organized the "Cecilia Elettrica" Ensemble Tour in Argentina: concerts and masterclasses held in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Córdoba at the Universities of Quilmes, Rosario, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Lanús , LIPM (Laboratory of Research and Musical Production) and the French Alliance of Buenos Aires. The Ensemble "Cecilia Elettrica 2011" was integrated by "Giorgio Nottoli" (composition and live electronics), "Luca Sanzò" (viola), "Enzo Filippetti" (saxophone) and "Gustavo Adolfo Delgado "(composition and live electronics). Also in 2011, Gustavo Adolfo Delgado founded as Vice-President the Cultural Association "CIMA", which promotes and organizes the international multimedia online festival "DI_STANZE".
He has shared concerts (sound direction and live electronics) with many artists including Claude Delangle, Salvatore Sciarrino, Ivo Nilsson, Nora Garcia, Guido Arbonelli, Massimo Munari, Laura Venditti and many others.
He has created and adapted a large number of patches of Max/MSP for live electronics and sound synthesis as the latest version of the published patch for the composition "Elettra" by composer Ivan Fedele ("Suvini Zerboni" Editors), the sound synthesis patch of the “Diad Systems” of composer James Dashow and many others for composers Guido Baggiani, Corrado Rojac and Antonio Scarlato.
He has got numerous training courses of specialization, master classes and seminars both in Argentina and in Italy, Monte Carlo and France, held by Jacques Diego Losa (Ina GRM) GRM Tools Suite; Annette Vande Gorne and Leonardo Cicala and Mario Mary: Acousmatic performing, with Mario Mary also he has studied Electroacoustic orchestration and IRCAM tools suite; Max Mathews: Radio Baton controller programming; John Chowning: FM synthesis; Gerald Bennett: Spatializaton algorithms in Csound; Juan Pampin: CLM programming; Klaus Schöning: Acoustic Arts, Riccardo Bianchini: CSound; Stefano Petrarca: C programming and Piero Schiavoni: Electroacoustic.
His works have been recently selected and performed at numerous international call for works and festivals including the International Music Festival “MuAIO 2017” (Colombia), “New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2017” - NYCEMF (USA), “SIME 2017” Electronic Music Week Festival/Contest (France), “Undae Radio #140 2017 call Madness and alienation” (Spain), “Mixtape 2017” call - Not art Records label - (USA), “Festival 5 Giornate 2017” (Milan), “Spring Concerts 2017” (University of Rome 2 Tor Vergata), "Banc d'Essai 2016" (Ina GRM, France), "influx - L'Espace du son 2016" (Belgium), "El laboratorio del espacio 2016 "(Spain), “Muslab 2016” (Mexico), "SPECTRA 2016 festival” (Malasya), “EFME 2016 festival” (Argentina), "Acusmoniae 2.1 2016"(Bari, Italy), “Diffrazioni 2016” (Florence), AumentAzioni 2016 (Salerno, Italy), “Artescienza 2016” (Rome), Festival internazionale “Bateau-Lavoir 2016” (Rieti, Italy);
“musicaelettronica.it #3: call Voice (2016)” (Florence); Festival Monaco Electroacoustique ‘11, ‘13, ‘15 (Principality of Monaco), , “EMuFest” ‘07, ‘08, ‘09, ‘10, ‘11, ’13, ’14, ’15, ’16, “Spring Concerts ’12, ’15, ‘16” (University of Rome 2 Tor Vergata), SchauSchall Fest II and III 2013 (Graz, Austria), "+ 29 db May 2014" and "International Summer Academy of Music 2014" (Thessaloniki and Kavala, Greece), "Baki Contempo Festival" (Republic of Azerbaijan), "Brass & Jazz Line" (Latvia), "Confluencias" (Huelva, Spain), "SYNTHESE 2004" (Bourges. France), Ravelo’s Hall of the National Theatre (Domenican Republic), “Di_stanze Multimedia Festival”; another special concerts in Rome were made at “Migrante 2011 and 2012”, “Festa Europea della Musica”, “Museum Discoteca di Stato”, “Re-Volt”, “ContaminAzioni”, “Confédération Internationale de Musique Electroacoustique 2004 - UNESCO (Radio Rai 2)” “G.E.R.M.I”, “Sala dell’ex Mattatoio di Testaccio”, “SMAC Festival, Estate Romana", “Cinema Azzurro Scipioni”, “Concerti di primavera” Cultural Association “T. L. Da Victoria”, “Festival dell’Associazione Panharmonikon”; “Le forme del suono” (Latina, Italy), “Il suono dei soli, 101 Scelsi Cage” (Palermo), "Electric Shock Hazard" (Salerno), “Sala Puccini” (Conservatory of Milan), “Terra delle Risonanze/Orizzonte Mediterraneo” (Salerno, Italy), Incontro biennale di Musica Elettronica “La Terra Fertile” (Sassari, Italy), VI edizione del “Festival 5 giornate” (Milan), “Festival di Cinema di Pesaro”, “Domus Danae” (Ardea, Italy), “Piccole Serenate Notturne” (Viterbo, Italy), “Art Cafè Combo” (Perugia, Italy), “Serata finale della rassegna Premio Cantieri Opera Prima” Festival di Musica Antica, Moderna e Contemporanea “Caere Musica” (Cerveteri). In Buenos Aires, Argentina: International Festival “La semana de la musica electroacústica”, “La Semana de la Música Contemporánea”, “Parátaxis”, “Elektronica Viva! Festival de músicas acusmáticas y mixtas”, LIPM (Laboratory of Reserarch and Musical Production), French Alliance, University of Quilmes, Catholic University (Auditorium Alberto Ginastera), Conservatory of Music "Julián Aguirre”, Abasto Theater, F.J. Klemm Foundation, E.A.D (School of Arts and Dramaturgy), University and Conservatory of Córdoba, University of Rosario and Santa Fe.
