Interferencias

Premiered by University of Missouri Philharmonic. Conducted by Edward Dolbashian.

Commissioned by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.

As winner of the Sinquefield Prize in the University of Missouri they gave me the chance to write a piece for the University Philharmonic. The first step towards this piece was a numerical approach. For this, I put frequency numbers through the calculations of FM synthesis and used the resulting sidebands as the “interferences.”

This process was rational, intricate, and systematic and it was greatly productive and motivating. At times, I felt there was a bit of a dry result and being aware of this, I started to add some flexibility to the creative process and skipped some of the preconceived sounds. Visually, the interference result can be easily explained by this great image by the American artist Berenice Abbott on this link.

“Two sources collide and create Interferences: Sounds (pitches) collide and create new sounds and timbres, as they are created this sounds also interact and create more and a endless chain reaction is developed.”