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CONTEMPORANEUS 20[25]
A new edition of CONTEMPORANEUS is back, the festival of new music that the Contemporaneus Association has been organizing in Reus since 2023. My friend and sound adventures buddy, the composer and sound artist Joan Bagés i Rubí, and I co-direct it. The festival The third edition of CONTEMPORANEUS has grown in both duration and number of concerts and activities. …
Graphic Scores
Excerpt from “Makrokosmos” (1972) by George Crumb In recent years, I have worked with graphic scores both with my conservatory students and in external workshops. This practice is an excellent introduction to contemporary music and a very engaging and enriching musical experience. GRAPHIC SCORES A graphic score is a textual representation of a work in which extra-musical elements are used …
Women Composers
: Some time ago, I found the picture above on the twitter account of the Hartford Women Composers Fest (Connecticut, USA) and it made me think, first, about still existing gender differences in the music world as well as in our society (a fact that I find unacceptable in current times) and that programming music by women composers be normal …
CONTEMPO[R]AN[EUS] 20[24]
Sèrie Rietveld 02, Jaume Rocamora (Tortosa, 1946) For a long time, I wanted to organize something related to the music I love in Reus, the city where I work and live for more than 20 years. Taking advantage of the experience of my friend and sound adventures buddy, composer Joan Bagés i Rubí, we started this challenging project called CONTEMPORANEUS. …
Does Contemporary Music scare anyone?
Last February 15th, I did a workshop about introduction to the interpretation of contemporary music at the Music Conservatory of Sabadell (near Barcelona) to students from the end of elementary and academy levels. Since we didn’t have much time, and this kind of workshop requires continuity, I focused respectively on a guided collective improvisation and the collective interpretation of a …
CONTEMPO[R]AN[EUS] 20[23]
A CONTEMPORARY MUSIC DAY IN REUS I had in mind for long to carry out an activity about contemporary music for all audiences. With the experience and complicity of my partner of adventures, composer and sound artist Joan Bagés i Rubí, we at last organized a day to give visibility to the music composed nowadays. As its name implies, …