Bird pour saxophone et électronique (Torre, Salvador)

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Publisher Info. Salavdor Torre
Performers Claude Delangle, Boulogne-Billancourt 11/27/1987
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Misc. Notes For electronics please ask the composer
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Publisher Info. Salvador Torré
Performers Salvador Torre
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Misc. Notes Recorded at Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory on 05/25/1988
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

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Arranger Salvador Torre
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Misc. Notes You can make an arrangement for any instrument regarding the Score and Soundtrack
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General Information

Work Title Bird pour saxophone
Alternative. Title Btrd pour saxophone
Composer Torre, Salvador
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. None [force assignment]
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1987
First Performance. 1987 (May)
Dedication Claude DELANGLE
Average DurationAvg. Duration 14 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Modern
Piece Style Modern
Instrumentation alto saxophone (E), tape

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Bird for alto sax & tape “Beauty will be convulsive otherwise it won’t be” André Bretón

…I had the intention of using all the means and methods that were available at that moment (1987) in the electro-acoustic studio of Boulogne, France, where I worked composing a work for instrument and tape. To achieve homogeneity, the sound in the tape would have a tight relation with the instrument, hence the sounds in the tape were taken almost completely from the saxophone. The unity came from this fact; the variety would come from the multiple sound that the studio offered at the time (1987). The punctuation would come from elements coming not from the sax, but available, from an old analogic synthesizer, to concrete sounds of multiple sources diversely filtered, transformed, “saxophoned”…’ The piece establishes the interplay between two extremes and their different intermediate degrees: the affinity on one side and the antagonism on the other, between the instrumentalist and the tape; sometimes a dialogue with itself, like a mirror of the same saxophone; sometimes a fight between both. Bird? You can’t escape the great Charlie Parker and his high saxophone, who revolutionized the way of playing this instrument. Also, in the last section, there’s a reference to Olivier Messiaen and his ornithology, just that in here, the bird represents the electronic “heavy bird”, a sort of malefic being who challenges the other bird: the saxophonist himself. Both form a metaphor of the duel between the “caged” bird, and the lively, free bird, who is the instrumentalist, keeper of spontaneity in his execution.