Mutationen III from Claudio Santoro: a case study of analysis and reinterpretation fo a mixed piece

• Autor(a) principal: Fábio Wanderley Janhan Sousa
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Margarida Borghoff
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/41347
• topic: Claudio Santoro; Mutationen III

Attempting to break the coldness of sitting in a room listening to fixed music, composers of electroacoustic music have been trying to add some vividness to the concert by adding live electronics, images, lighting or a human performer. Mixed music is the terminology we use to define the practice of composing for acoustic instruments accompanied by a pre-recorded electronic part. The present article describes a practical experience of reconstructing the pre-recorded part of the piece “Mutationen III”, written for pre-recorded sounds and piano by the Brazilian composer Claudio Santoro. With this experience and the research of new sonorities based on the documentation presented in the score, a new version of the work was developed using some of the most recent tools for audio manipulation. This exercise proved to be an excellent opportunity to develop both analytical and compositional skills, as well as the ability to the usage of digital audio manipulation tools.