• Ear of maize

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    A corn on the cob is formed by a fat and hidden central trunk and many grains that surround and cover it.

     

     

     

     

    Composer: Quim Simó Vallvé

     

     

    Artwork: Ear of maize, Francesc Carrera, circa 1926

     

  • Fountain pen

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    Donde dije digo, digo Diego (To go back on your word) or the confusion generated by the blurring of the word provided over time…

     

     

     

     

    Composer: Eduard Mas Marín

     

     

    Artwork: Fountain pen, Josep Rigol, 1977

  • Glassware

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    The piece is a sound landscape that, by interlacing recorded and processed sounds, describes an everyday scene such as laying the table.

     

     

    Composer: Joan Climent Roca

     

     

    Artwork: Glassware, Josep Maria Lladó, circa 1932

  • Lyons

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    Sound description of the work. Rhythm as a representation of the lines of the central objects.

     

     

    Composer: Jordi Bosch Molina

     

     

    Artwork: Lyons, Pere Daura, circa 1929

     

  • Music and still lifes

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    The writing of a musical miniature is a good practice for composers.  The short duration formats require the musicians to be clear and efficient.  Because in a minute there’s no time for frivolities.  In the subject Repertoire and techniques of electro-acoustic music, the students have to assimilate the most important examples of this fundamental trend of western music over the past seventy years. The apparently inanimate poetics of the still lifes have provided an excellent programme for developing various exercises that serve, furthermore, as a basic anthology of the main techniques of electro-acoustic creation.  The same composers have selected the plastic works based on which they have designed an acoustic space for accompanying the spectators from a free and open interpretation.

     

     

     

    Fèlix Pastor Olives, teacher and Head of the of Theory, Composition and Direction Department

     

  • [Still life]

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    Harmonics creates resonance.  Little things are born and start growing more and more.  We have the process and the result in front of our nose.

     

     

    Composer: Otger Ibars Almirall

     

     

    Artwork: [Still life], Otho Lloyd, undated

     

  • [Still life]

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    Undulating shapes, sine, interferences and modulations beside the sea: a crescendo towards a new space of rest and peace.

     

     

     

    Composer: Jan Valls Miralles

     

     

    Artwork: [Still life], Otho Lloyd, circa 1945

  • Still Life II

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    Transition on foot through the streets of Paris, with the nature and the gold and silverwork as sound images, with their rhythmic similarities as a thread, and their differences in timbre as creative and diversifying elements.

     

     

     

    Composer: Víctor Núñez Tarifa

     

     

    Artwork: Still Life II, Juli González, circa 1929

  • Still life with animals and plants

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    In the composition, death is represented.  Characterised by empty air, silence, the sound of dying in hospitals and that of a train in a tunnel.

     

     

     

     

    Composer: Guillem Alonso

     

     

    Artwork: Still life with animals and plants, Francesc Carrera, circa 1924

     

  • Still life with grapes and metal container

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    The piece has been composed based on the sounds which come from the artisanal elaboration of wine.  A cushion of mixed grapes and a few drops with various delays.

     

     

    Composer: Adrià Martinez Cazorla

     

     

    Artwork: Still life with grapes and metal container, Claudi Carbonell, undated

     

  • Still life with hat

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    Dismantling a still life.  A very descriptive piece that invites you to not only contemplate the work but also to go in deeper, and to show ourselves each element just at the right time.

     

     

     

    Composer: Josep Cordobés Miravitlles

     

     

    Artwork: Still life with hat, Marià Fortuny, circa 1863-1866

  • Still Life with Two Vases and Two Pears

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    How the colours sound while I touch the jars and eat a pear!

     

     

     

    Composer: Marcel Ferrer González

     

     

    Artwork: Still Life with Two Vases and Two Pears, Pere Daura, circa 1929

     

  • Untitled

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    Brittle at the flies’ teatime #quadreMNAC #naturamorta

     

     

     

    Composer: Judit Vicente

     

     

    Artwork: Untitled, Josep Maria Lladó, circa 1930-1934

  • Untitled

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    The piece reflects the life and destiny marked by a chicken in the slaughterhouse or factory, in contrast with the life in the open fields of these animals.

     

     

    Composer: Gabriel Garcia Garcia

     

     

    Artwork: Untitled, Claudi Carbonell, undated

     

  • Untitled

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    In a stem A: {5 7 8 9 A B 0 1 2 3 4 6}, it is interrupted by B: {9 4 7 0 6 A 2 8 1 3 5 B}, what becomes of A'.

    Did you say that only the characters count?

     

     

     

     

    Composer: Fèlix Pastor Olives

     

     

    Artwork: Untitled, Emili Godes, circa 1930

  • Xardor (Heat)

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    The music seeks to evoke the dense and warm atmosphere that this photograph expresses by means of crystalline and malleable sounds.

     

     

    Composer: Alejandro Arrocha Rodríguez

     

     

    Artwork: Xardor (Heat), Josep Maria Lladó, undated