Estudio II sobre las modulaciones m​é​tricas

from Horizonte ondulado by José Manuel López López, Drumming Grupo de Percussão

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Estudio II sobre las modulaciones métricas (Study II on metric modulations) (2003) for four percussionists, commissioned by the Portuguese ensemble Drumming, is an emotive and calculated homage to Elliott Carter and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The composition process involved use of the 12 chromatic tempi contained within a rhythmic octave, and to establish and elaborate the polyphonic situations each of those tempi contains. In other words, to examine and find a way of communicating one tempo with another, to find common points and, through these concealed circuits, to create temporal structures on which to build a personal poetic language based on the idea that in music everything, absolutely everything, from the form to the note, is time.

Along the way, I have sought to show the different relative times dependent on the temporal unit characterising that particular state of time and, sometimes linearly or often polyphonically, to show the divisions of the base metronomic unit -that is, multiplying a tempo X by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, etc… or dividing it by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, etc. The result is a set of diverse strata of pulses oscillating between approximately 5 and 1000 per minute. A singular aspect of this work is the use of superimposed fixed and variable tempi; for example, a stratum that remains unchanged for percussionist I, along with another three that are compressed and expanded independently between themselves, approaching, distancing and synchronising sometimes with the reference tempo. Depending on the degree of compression or expansion against the fixed tempo, this procedure creates different granular textures that cross over among the four percussionists, giving more the sensation of a moving flexible network rather than of fixed structures. A further feature of the work is the journey toward extremely slow tempi to give the impres- sion of an immense polyphony taking in the extremes and the centre of the pulse (always relative to and depending on our perception), as the pulses referred to, of between 5 and 1000 per minute, can be extended into other fields our perception would lose, in terms of listening, simply shifting the zone of reference from minutes to hours, to weeks, months, centuries, etc… or, in the opposite direction, to milliseconds.

José Manuel López López

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from Horizonte ondulado, released November 26, 2017

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