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penetrations I (1968), 00:20:44alcides lanza http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~alcides
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Biography: Canadian-Argentinian composer, conductor and pianist alcides lanza (Rosario, Argentina, 1929) moved to New York in 1965, having received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and lived there from 1965 until 1971 where he worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. In 1971 he was appointed professor of composition at the Faculty of Music, McGill University in Montréal. Since 1974 he has been the director of the Electronic Music Studio at McGill. In 2002 he was named EMS Director Emeritus. lanza continues to have a very active international career as a pianist and conductor specializing in avant-garde repertoire. In 2003 the Canada Council for the Arts designated alcides lanza as the recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments as a composer. In 2007 the Concejo Deliberante [City Council] of Rosario, Argentina, designated alcides lanza as Artista Distinguido, honouring him with a diploma and a medal.
Program Notes: penetrations I [1968-IV], created at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. it was originally designed as a'light and sound event'to be performed using an'area'of New York City. more precisely, the area surrounding the Seagram's building, the celebrated building by architect Mies van der Rohe, [a.k.a. the'Bronfman'bulding]. when the owners of the building decided not to honor their initial approval for this project, the'light and sound event'never took place.
penetrations I - slightly over 20'in duration - was designed to be repeated three times for an event taken place from 11 PM to midnight, during the month of December [1968], at the plaza existing at the intersection of 51st street and Park Ave.. [for more on this light and sound event, please see SOURCE Magazine, double issue 7/8, which includes the complete charts and instructions for the realization of this work].
the electroacoustic music created by lanza includes city noises gathered by the composer in the street and metro stations of New York City, using a Uher 4200 portable tape recorder and Sennheisser MD420 microphones. The voices of the Argentinean painter Alejandro Puente and of lanza himself are at times barely audible against a drone naturally generated by a diesel truck motor. penetrations I was commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, in New York, for their exhibition entitled"SOUND", in 1969.
Score and instructions published by SOURCE, double issue 7/8, 1970, California.
tape part published by SHELAN Publications
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