Label: EMI, Centro Independiente De Investigaciones Musicales Y Multimedia (CIIMM)
Format: LP
Genre: Compositional
In stock
** Original copies of this obscure electro acoustic marvel from Mexico. Few copies available, unplayed ** Musica De Camera it's an interdisciplinary creative group formed by Angel Cosmos (writer, multidisciplinary author), Juan José Diaz Infante (photographer and designer) and Arturo Márquez (composer and musician). Created in Mexico in March 1984, it has already presented several concerts, being the world premiere of its first eight works -among them, five of those included in this disc-, one of the main programs of the VII International Forum Of New Music (May 16, 1985). The name that determines the group is also the name that gives title to the project: Música de Cámara, because, as a group and as a work, it always plays with the character of chamber music and with that of music produced by photographic elements. (This polyvalent denomination would not be possible in other languages, but it is possible in Spanish: Música de Cámara is Musique de chambre or Chamber Music, but it is also Musique de caméra or Camera Music).
Chamber Music seeks the conceptual and medial integration of the arts and produces works that are musical, photographic, literary, plastic, etc. This album, the group's first, includes works that rescue for music sounds from photographic cameras (as in “Untitled”) but also works for musical instruments such as harp, piano, flute or organ, whose scores are photographic (as in “Only for piano” or “Master Pez”); it includes a work for voices, breaths and applause, which uses a poem from the book “Chamber Music by James Joyce (”Poetry of the voice"); it also includes an electroacoustic work made by composer Antonio Russek from the same material used by the group to make “Untitled”, but whose result is very different; it includes a performance of “Master Pez” recorded in Spain by Catalan composer Josep Lluis Berenguer on organ, clarinet and flute; and it concludes the disc with a work for synthesizer and fireworks (“Mascletá y fuga”).
The material is wide and diverse and can serve as a sample of the range of possibilities offered by the group and the enormous capacity it has to elaborate interdisciplinary works. An album like this is a rare one. It is, of course, an album that will surprise -like the group itself, for it brings together disciplines that are apparently far from each other.