Desamor I

Roberto Morales-Manzanares

Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2012
• Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

Abstract:

Program notes: Desamor I is inspired in a model of meditation where primordial awareness or naturally occurring timeless awareness is seen as a result of a conversation with my wife Alejandra. This work is for piano, computer and two Wii controllers attached to my forearms. The output is 4 channels. The gestures of the pianist (movement, timber and dynamics) are captured in real time via 2 microphones and a set of 2 Wii controllers. The computer languages involved in the development of the project were: Escamol, a prolog environment for algorithmic composition designed by the composer, and SuperCollider. In this piece I share my experience as a performer-composer within a multi-platform programming environments involving signal processing and machine learning techniques. Composer(s) Credits: Roberto Morales-Manzanares Instrumentalist(s) Credits: Roberto Morales-Manzanares (piano, percussion and electronics) Artist(s) Biography: Roberto Morales-Manzanares: Born in Mexico City, Roberto Morales-Manzanares started his musical training in national folkloric music and learned how to play harps and different kinds of guitars and flutes from several regions of the country. His doctorate in music composition was completed at UC Berkeley in 2006. As a composer, he has written music for theater, dance, movies, TV and radio. As an interpreter Morales-Manzanares has participated on his own and with other composers in forums of jazz, popular and new music, including tours to Europe United States and Latin-America. As a researcher, he has been invited to different national and international conferences such as ICMC, International Join Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI and Symposium on Arts and Technology and has several publications. Currently he is member of the ``Sistema Nacional de Creadores''. His music can be found in ICMC recordings, Victo label www.victo.qc.ca (Leyendas in collaboration with Mari Kimura) and Irradia/Pocoscocodrilos. Concert Venue and Time: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Tuesday May 22, 7:00pm

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @incollection{nime2012-music-Morales-Manzanares2012,
 abstract = {Program notes:

\emph{Desamor I} is inspired in a model of meditation where primordial awareness or naturally occurring timeless awareness is seen as a result of a conversation with my wife Alejandra. This work is for piano, computer and two Wii controllers attached to my forearms. The output is 4 channels. The gestures of the pianist (movement, timber and dynamics) are captured in real time via 2 microphones and a set of 2 Wii controllers. The computer languages involved in the development of the project were: Escamol, a prolog environment for algorithmic composition designed by the composer, and SuperCollider. In this piece I share my experience as a performer-composer within a multi-platform programming environments involving signal processing and machine learning techniques.

Composer(s) Credits:

Roberto Morales-Manzanares

Instrumentalist(s) Credits:

Roberto Morales-Manzanares (piano, percussion and electronics)

Artist(s) Biography:

Roberto Morales-Manzanares: Born in Mexico City, \textbf{Roberto Morales-Manzanares} started his musical training in national folkloric music and learned how to play harps and different kinds of guitars and flutes from several regions of the country. His doctorate in music composition was completed at UC Berkeley in 2006. As a composer, he has written music for theater, dance, movies, TV and radio. As an interpreter Morales-Manzanares has participated on his own and with other composers in forums of jazz, popular and new music, including tours to Europe United States and Latin-America.
As a researcher, he has been invited to different national and international conferences such as ICMC, International Join Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI and Symposium on Arts and Technology and has several publications. Currently he is member of the ``Sistema Nacional de Creadores''. His music can be found in ICMC recordings, Victo label www.victo.qc.ca (Leyendas in collaboration with Mari Kimura) and Irradia/Pocoscocodrilos.

Concert Venue and Time: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Tuesday May 22, 7:00pm},
 address = {Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.},
 author = {Roberto Morales-Manzanares},
 booktitle = {Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 day = {21-23},
 editor = {Georg Essl and Brent Gillespie and Michael Gurevich and Sile O'Modhrain},
 month = {May},
 publisher = {Electrical Engineering \& Computer Science and Performing Arts Technology, University of Michigan},
 title = {Desamor I},
 year = {2012}
}