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Bird

for Alto Saxophone and Electronics

Salvador Torre

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Especificaciones

Region

Latinoamérica

Estimated Duration

11 - 15min

Date

1987

ISMN : 979-0-2325-6251-3

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Descripción

Bird for alto sax & tape “Beauty will be convulsive otherwise

it won’t be” André Bretón

…I had the intention of using all the means and methods that

were available at that moment (1987) in the electro-acoustic

studio of Boulogne, France, where I worked composing a

work for instrument and tape. To achieve homogeneity, the

sound in the tape would have a tight relation with the

instrument, hence the sounds in the tape were taken almost

completely from the saxophone. The unity came from this

fact; the variety would come from the multiple sound that

the studio offered at the time (1987). The punctuation would

come from elements coming not from the sax, but available,

from an old analogic synthesizer, to concrete sounds of

multiple sources diversely filtered, transformed,

“saxophoned”…’ The piece establishes the interplay between

two extremes and their different intermediate degrees: the

affinity on one side and the antagonism on the other,

between the instrumentalist and the tape; sometimes a

dialogue with itself, like a mirror of the same saxophone;

sometimes a fight between both. Bird? You can’t escape the

great Charlie Parker and his high saxophone, who

revolutionized the way of playing this instrument. Also, in the

last section, there’s a reference to Olivier Messiaen and his

ornithology, just that in here, the bird represents the
electronic “heavy bird”, a sort of malefic being who challenges the other bird: the saxophonist himself. Both form a metaphor of the duel between the “caged” bird, and the lively, free bird, who is the instrumentalist, keeper of spontaneity in his execution.

Instrumentation

Alto Saxophone

Score Details

Format - A4 / US Letter
Pages - 20

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