Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt - Batallas para Allende

Batallas para Allende (1979) “I understand composition as an expressive ordering of acoustic elements in space and time - among these, all noises, sounds and possible mixes, including music making procedures, depending or not on human actions and decisions. There are automated systems and systems requiring human beings to make decisions. Armed with this background, I’ve faced the endless possibilities electroacoustic music, freed from pitch or speed limits, provides to the ones who produce it. It can be composed in every language level. The “producer“ can decide each and every time how to organize every sound and silence in a piece, or if new or traditional rules are going to be used, in part or as a whole, in its structure. Also, if the “piece“ will be improvised or passing thru notation systems before “sounding“ or if it is going to be directly transferred to any reproductive --player- medium. Personally, I feel this freedom is what attracts me the most towards this paradise of creative alternatives, whose sole boundary lies in the listening and associating capacities of the ones receiving the products made thru these media and other, not only visual, concurring its presentation. Among its many possibilities, the development of a new “symphonism“ can be found, freed from our traditional concert hall, a dawn giving us warmth already, letting us enjoy its growing light.“ Gustavo Becerra - Schmidt (Oldenburg, Sept. 2008) Art by Mimmo Paladino