Solo for computer & feedback (2023)
Multiform electronic music with open duration
Inspired by Steve Reich’s Pendulum Music, this piece uses the same mechanism as a metaphor to exhibit the loss of freedom through the pendulum movement of the microphone, which will be slowly extinguished by gravitational force. As a result of this, the sound feedback will gradually increase. Simultaneously, the pure sound will be altered through electronic processes in real time until its complete destruction. This symbolizes how our socio-political environment manipulates our freedom of expression and thought to the point of nullifying it. Dedicated to all the victims of the abuse of power through states of absolute domination.
Remmy Canedo is a digital alchemist that transmutes mechanical waves into experimental electronic art. He studied composition and computer music at the University of Chile, Musikhochschule Stuttgart and later at IRCAM.
His work is heavily influenced by cultural transnationalism, evolutive new forms of societies and the causality of technological development. It exposes a dynamic and critical view of our environment and the way we perceive it, achieving an authentic conceptual language based in experimental metacognition, psychoacoustics and visualization.
Since 2006 he composes music, audiovisual works and interactive installations for instruments, voice & multimedia. In the beginning, he explores the manipulation and deformation of sound in real time, being the experimentation and dialog between machines and performers his central point. Later, he focuses his work on the implementation of live algorithmic composition as an expansion of the concept of sound manipulation, but in this case applied to the score, generating interactive networks that involve the compositional process, performers and visual elements for the creation of multiform music. In 2012 he start making audiovisual installations with AVAF collective for interactive art, winning the 1st prize in the International Lanxess Composition Competition at Acht Brücken Festival, Köln.
Besides his creative output, he works as a computer music designer, programming and performing others works with music, video and electronics. Since 2012 head of Reactive Ensemble, an ensemble specialized in computer music design and live electronics for the interpretation, preservation and expansion of multimedia art and electronic music tradition.
