{"id":270,"date":"2020-05-08T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josegmartinez.com\/?page_id=270"},"modified":"2023-09-08T07:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T11:18:06","slug":"ay-oi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/josegmartinez.com\/es\/music\/instrumentsandelectronics\/ay-oi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a1Ay, O\u00ed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marimba y Electr\u00f3nica (2014). Comisionada por Alejandro Ru\u00edz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Estrenada en el Festival Zeltsman de Marimba en 2014. Appleton, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despu\u00e9s de nuestra primera colaboraci\u00f3n con Alejandro Ruiz<\/a> we both realized that he needed a\u00a0highly contrasting piece in his recital and that perhaps a way of doing that was by adding electronics to his proposal. Also,\u00a0I had always had a personal debt to the traditional \u201cmarimba de chonta” from Colombia and wanted to use some of its music to write a new piece. With all of these in mind, I started simply improvising on the marimba and on the piano using traditional melodies I heard during my childhood. This music is typically performed by traditional ensembles that use “marimba de chonta” accompanied by traditional drums and shakers. \u00a0The electronic part encompasses the sounds of water, wood, and samples from traditional music, to create \u2013 together with the marimba\u2013 a general soundscape that takes the audience into the warm and colorful Colombian Pacific coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n