Research and creation residency.

The result of a collaboration between percussionist Tomás Moital and sound artist Pierre Carré, Membrana is a musical exploration in contact with skins: those of drums and those of loudspeakers. The membrane is a meeting point for percussion and electronics, since it is, for both, one of the elementary components of sound production - as much a tool for acoustic reproduction as a musical instrument. Thus, through organic porosity, percussion becomes a chimera of sound, while electronics becomes an embodied instrument: new hybrids are born from the interpenetration of two musical archetypes.

The musical program, featuring several contemporary compositions, is conceived as a continuity that maintains the porosity between electronics and acoustics, materiality and virtuality, reality and mirage. The multiplicity of articulations from a single starting point creates an ambiguity of musical categories, while instruments and bodies gradually merge.

Composed especially for the Membrana concert program, Convolution, a piece for augmented bass drum, seeks to bring out an unheard-of world of sound from the instrument's skin. The skin, taken as an interface between the acoustic and electronic worlds, is augmented by an electronic device using piezoelectric microphones and contact loudspeakers. This device, integrated into a feedback loop, increases the expressive palette of the instrument, which becomes capable of producing pitches, chords, switching continuously from one sonority to another and responding to the simple touch of the instrumentalist.

Biography(s)
Membrana
Pierre Carré, Tomás Moital
Residence
Mon. Sept. 2 -- Fri. 13, 2024
Distribution

Pierre Carré
composer and performer

Tomás Moital
percussionist

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