Throughout history composers have found in birds the music they wished to create. It is impressive the amount of birds you can indentify in so different periods, including even the most extreme contemporary ones!  On last Wednesday (March 14) I gave the lecture “Birds in Music – a walk with Janequin, Stravinsky and Messiaen” at the Oviedo Higher Conservatory of Music, Spain, and in this lecture I outlined the way birds appear in music. I could identify three main strategies. The names I gave t

A full immersion in an incredible world of sonic exploration! This new concert of Edson Zampronha will take place next Tuesday (March 20) at 8:00pm at the Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto – Gijón, Spain. Edson Zampronha performs this concert with eight speakers around the audience and four other speakers strategically placed in the concert room to offer a unique sound experience. The pieces performed belong to some of the most innovative composers of today. The concert program includes the

Recycling Collaging Sampling is a work for percussion and electroacoustics that reveals a unique sound world to the listener. A huge set of instruments occupies all the stage, 1 to 6 percussionists play intensely, and the electroacustic sounds are projected to completely surround the listeners. This work is a 23 minutes of a thrilling experience, and its live performance is unforgettable. The next live performance of this work is on April 21st (Saturday), 10pm. It is being performed the Simantr

The magazine Antro Positivo, Edition 02, dedicates one of its sections to the work of Edson Zampronha. (Antro Positivo, published 16/04/2012 on pages 14-15). It includes a link to the work Modelagem X-a, for vibraphone, performed by Augusto Moralez. This is a very good example of what I call Advanced Music. It also includes a short text by Adolfo Núñez, dean of LIEM-CDMC at the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid, Spain), about the music of Zampronha.  As the text of Adolfo Núñez is published in Portugu

Daniel Serale is a great percussionist, and he wrote a very good paper on Recycling Collaging Sampling which is worth reading indeed. Serale  analyzes the collaborative interaction between composer and performer to generate a musical work, focusing on guided improvisations. He concentrates his analysis on the work  Recycling Collaging Sampling,  a composition of Edson Zampronha for percussion and electroacoustic.  The paper's title is   Recycling and Collaging: the roles of composer and the pe

On May 9 th 2012 Duplum was premiered in Spain and the composition of this work is very interesting indeed. The premiere was at the Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto (Gijón, Spain), by the Tuba Ensemble of the Higher Conservatory of Music of Oviedo (Spain). It was a great performance including 2 tubas, 1 euphonium, 1 piano and electroacoustics that I performed live. I first created the electroacustics for the work Justo antes de los bosques (Just in front the forest), a performance that blend

Power, adventure, and overcome by transforming obstacles into opportunities! Heroes is about that: a work that struggles to grow by giving concrete forms to bold ideas! More than 90 performers on stage! Heroes was composed by Edson Zampronha for the Symphonic Band CONSMUPA (Oviedo Higher Conservatory of Music) conducted by Rafael Zanón. The premiere is at the CONSMUPA Theater (Oviedo, Spain) on May 16, 2012. A second concert will take place in La Laboral, in Gijón, Spain, on May 17, 2012. Her

A stage is not neutral regarding music: a rich dialogue can emerge between performances and stages. In this post I concentrate my comments on one specific case in which a stage becomes a key part of a performance. Justo antes de los Bosques (Just next to the Forest - see a promotional video here) was performed inside an Olympic swimming pool during the CENT 2012 (Cisterniga New Trends in Performing Arts) in the city of La Cisterniga (Spain), on May 16, 2012 (9pm). This is a performance of Teatr

The XIII Festival Internacional de Teatro y Artes de Calle de Valladolid (XIII International Festival for Theater and Street Arts of Valladolid) includes the work Justo Antes de los Bosques  (Just next to the Forest) to be performed inside a rebuilt slaughterhouse now fully dedicated to arts! Today (May 26, 2012) at the Sala Blanca – LAVA, Valladolid, Spain. Created by TeatroDRAN with Original (Advanced) Music composed by Edson Zampronha . See more about performances inside alternative stages

Acqua alle corde! (Water to the strings!) is a 16thCentury expression which refers to a courage and greatness of spirit that someone shows in the face of an extreme difficult situation, even when his/her own life is exposed to a significant risk. Edson Zampronha wrote Acqua alle Corde! to the cellist Trino Zurita, who is premiering it at the Ateneo Barcelonés (in Barcelona, Spain) next June 08, 2012 (8:00 pm), as part of the "Concerts-Phonos 2011-2012". The expression Acqua alle corde! appeare

The next concert of Edson Zampronha is part of the K-maleón Festival in Spain! More than a concert this is a multimedia experience on stage! Electroacoustic music – Dance – Piano – Video – Liquid Light Show All together they give shape to an innovative performance that expand our experience of music. The music of Edson Zampronha are presented in collaboration with extremely gifted artists: Saúl de la Fuente – he is a magnificent dancer that dances the work Fénix and improvises with Zampronha

Could we ground a musical system on qualities of feeling? Could we use qualities of feeling as a ground for a compositional method? How to deal with qualities of feeling expanding them, instead of going back to subjective, coded emotions or banal clichés? De Produndis is one of the works in which  Edson Zampronha  first tried to answer to these issues. This work is being performed by the excellent Brazilian choir Camerata in Fuga and Thiago Cazarim (piano) in a series of  really consistent, con

How is possible to unfold music into space? Is it possible to unfold musical syntax, musical texture of even musical signification into space for the construction of an innovative musical work? Zampronha wrote a new paper called Musica desplegada en el espacio (“Music unfold into space”) in which he develops some ideas about this unfolding and shows three concrete examples of that. This paper is published by Espacio Sonoro review (nº 27, June 2012) and it can be read online! And it’s free! Click

Los relicarios para cenizas humanas y de mascotas se utilizan para conservar los restos cremados de seres queridos. Esta práctica ha ganado popularidad, ofreciendo una forma respetuosa y personalizada de recordar a quienes han fallecido. En el mercado actual, existen relicarios de distintos materiales y estilos, como madera, cerámica, metal y vidrio. Además de su función conmemorativa, estos objetos permiten mantener viva la memoria de la persona o mascota en el hogar o el cementerio. La entrad

En este emotivo artículo, exploraremos el significado detrás de las joyas para cenizas humanas y de mascotas. Descubre cómo estas hermosas piezas de joyería nos permiten mantener vivo el recuerdo y el amor hacia nuestros seres queridos, ofreciendo consuelo y cercanía en momentos de duelo. Acompáñanos en este viaje lleno de emociones mientras exploramos la belleza y el significado detrás de estas joyas conmovedoras y significativas. La entrada ¿Qué son las joyas para cenizas humanas y de mascota

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La pérdida de un ser querido es una de las experiencias más desgarradoras y desafiantes en la vida. La forma en que enfrentamos este dolor y buscamos consuelo puede variar enormemente entre una persona y otra, pero hay recursos que pueden ofrecer una perspectiva valiosa y transformadora. Uno de estos recursos es el libro «La rueda de la vida» de Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, que me ha acompañado en mi propio proceso de duelo tras la reciente pérdida de mi querido padre. En este artículo, exploraremos e

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