SONUS - v2
Bendicho juez de la verdad (2000), 00:07:39Eldad Tsabary http://www.yaeldad.com
Nationality: Canada
Residence: Canada
Biography: The compositional style of Montreal-based Eldad Tsabary is decidedly inspired by the concepts of constant motion and fluidity. These concepts are, in his mind, defining qualities of life itself, and he is ever in search for new techniques to produce smooth transformations, aural metamorphoses, and a sense of motion in his work. Eldad portrays these qualities by continuously transforming his sound-material, textures, harmonic content and spatial positioning, by varying the types of transformations, and by avoiding mechanical repetitions or long, unchanging sound/musical objects. Recently, Eldad has been experimenting with what he likes to describe as “Acoustic Tall-Tales” in which a realistic environmental recording is manipulated into the realm of the fantastic and absurd.
Performances of Tsabary's works include the Bulgarian Philharmonic, The Cygnus Ensemble, Haim Avitsur and a collaboration with Australian-American composer Robert Cuckson. His sound-art and music compositions were presented worldwide in concerts, installations, and conferences at venues such as Carnegie Hall, CCRMA, the Burning Man Festival, Primavera en la Habana, Festival Synthese, Western Illinois University New Music Festival, Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival, Spark Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota and others. His works are released on ERMMedia, Capstone Records, New Adventures in Sound Art, JAZZIS, The Infinite Sector, comfortstand.com and SoundLab Channel and published by Editions-BIM (Switzerland).
Mr. Tsabary is a professor at the Concordia University Music Department (Montreal, Quebec), an Artist Mentor for the MFA in New Media Program of the Transart Institute (Krems, Austria), and Head of Music at CBB Montreal. He received his education at CUNY's Graduate School and University Center doctoral program, the Mannes College of Music, Musitechnic (Montreal) and the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in Israel. He studied composition under David Loeb, David Del Tredici, David Olan, and Tim Brady.
Program Notes: Spanish speakers may notice immediately that despite its familiar sound, the title of the piece is not really Español; it is a Jewish Ladino funeral blessing"Blessed is the Righteous Judge", a blessing that represents acceptance of God's word whether good or bad - with joy. The piece comprises three sections, the first and last representing birth and death respectively and being essentially similar although set in opposite directions. Life is represented in the middle section, which is, therefore, more linear, lively, humorous, intellectual, emotional, and capricious. Throughout the piece, the trombone melody is either extracted from, based upon, or in the spirit of the original Sephardic chant melody of this blessing. The electronic part is spiced with vocodered text elements of the chant.
Studio of Composition: Home, Music Communication Inc NYC
Hardware Used: Electronic Realization: 1. PC P-III 450 128MB SDRAM 2. MIDI Traveler PC Card 3. Yamaha TG-100 Modul 4. Roland A37 Midi Keyboard 5. Creative microphone 6. Apple Macintosh Computer. Trombone recording: 7. M-Audio Delta 410 8. Mackie
Software Used: Electronic Realization: 1. SEK'D Samplitude 2496 2. Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 4.5e 3. Cyclonix Vocoder 4. Prosoniq Pi Warp DX v1.0 5. Waves Native Power Pack v2.5 6. Event Electronics DSP-FX v6 Trombone recording: 7. Logic Audio
Performer(s): Trombone, Haim Avitsur Electronic realization, Eldad Tsabary
Appeared In:
CEC: Sonus
CEC: JTTP 2003
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