Presence-level etude

for two saxophones, trombone, e-guitar, percussion and piano – 2013 – 8′

for two saxophones, trombone, e-guitar, percussion and piano – 2013 – 8′

An intuition: the “presence level” of a person depends, in a certain subtle way, on his/her action level and choice level on any given context (a train, a composed piece of music, a life…); following this thought we make ourselves present by acting or choosing. From another point of view, the presence-level could depend also on the perceptibility of those actions and/or choices. This piece, besides some issues like groove, space or calligraphy, explores this “presence level” that positions the role of the composer towards the different overlapped movements of the work between the “music finder” (by namely the use of autogenerative proliferation processes) and the properly “composer” (through canons, consciously made architectural plans and subjectively chosen material).

Pedro Corte-Real and Andreas Mader (saxophones) Mami Hashimoto (trombone) Jerzy Bielski (guitar) Shoko Nagamachi (writing percussion) Manuel Sánchez García (piano)