Artist description Electroacoustic chamber music? Mexican? Political? Give a chance for something different!!!

Music Style Electroacoustic chamber music

Musical Influences Cage, Nono, Saariaho, Dohmont, Alavrez, Smalley

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Group Members Great performers: Harrie Starreveld Duane Cochran Pablo Gomez Lagarto Ensemble

Instruments Computer, Environmental sounds, live electronics, Chamber instruments

Albums Manifiesto

Press Reviews RODRIGO SIGAL - MANIFESTO This is "on the edge stuff" and I love it. A mesmerizing blend of classical chamber music and avant garde, replete with ambient noise, synths, loops and sampled real life noises. The opening track has an Edgar Varese vibe going with a steely flute and lots of curious strangeness. Track 2 starts with piano themes and then dives into the deep end. There are flashes of melancholic strings and other orchestral timbres amid the collage of sounds. Stereo effects abound, and I dare you to pull on the headphones! Sigal comes from Mexico and the liner notes are in Spanish and English. If you were like me and listened to Revolution No. 9 on the Beatles White Album all the way through, everytime, and actually enjoyed it -- you will surely enjoy this brilliant CD immensely. Very cool. Very moving. Very 20th century. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~hmag/demo1.html RODRIGO SIGAL - MANIFESTO '...I would like - if I may, to take you on a strange journey...' So begins a rather interesting project which takes in a whole range of styles, from classical, to eclectic electronic & sampling & beyond. Over a period of a little more than 70 minutes, Rodrigo, who originates from Mexico, shows you his rather unique world of sound which encompasses some interesting & challenging sounds. Accompanied along the way by a orchestral group, solo flute, piano & guitar in different tracks, he manages to arrange the music to become a sort of aural scenery if you like. Although there are only 5 tracks here, the album is full of very interesting sounds which accompany the instruments. My pick of the tracks vary, according to individual sections of each, the sampling of opener "Babel", the western movie soundtrack styling of "Dolor En Mi" & the piano musings of closer "El Firmamento", which is an excellent rendition of (as the liner notes say) how the night sky might sound with piano. Should be a very interesting follow up to this project, should the direction of the music continue. http://www.SonicCircuits.com/98notes.html Rodrigo Sigal - BABEL Bio: Rodrigo Sigal Sefchovich is a Mexican composer born in 1971 in Mexico City. He studied at the Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Musicales (CIEM) with Profesor Composer Alejandro Velasco, at the Centro Nacional de las Artes (National Center for the Arts) with Profesor Composer Mario Lavista and Profesor Composer Franco Donatoni, and at the Short Composer1s Seminars at the Morelia Conservatory with different teachers, including Peter Garland, Maurizio Barbetti, Donald Martino, etc... After finishing the music university he started an electroacoustic and mastering music studio where he works on his own projects and composing commissioned works for dance, radio, and poetry shows in Mexico City. He has works for different ensembles with and without tape, and alos has some solo pieces. His string quartet Altai has been recorded on the Tower Records label. He has been honored with the Banff Centre for the Arts and Fondo para la Cultura y las Artes grant for an artistic residency in Banff, Canada, the National Council for the Arts and Culture1s national composers grant in 1997 (for composers under 35), and three more grants from the Morelia Conservatory, Mexico; the Agon electroacoustic studio in Milan, Italy, for another artistic residency; and the LIEM electronic music studio in Madrid, Spain. His main interest is to work with acoustic ensembles and tape, and the interaction between live performers and electronic devices.

Additional Info Mexican currently composing in London.

Location London - United Kingdom

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