Miguel Frasconi - Traces

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Miguel Frasconi is a composer and improviser who has created through-composed operas, ensemble music, scores for modern dance, and also performs concerts of improvised music, both solo and ensemble.
Miguel specializes in 20th and 21st century repertoire music, and has been playing experimental glass instruments for over 45 years. He also plays keyboards, but these days in addition to composing, likes to improvise on modular analog electronics, most often controlled in other ways than using a keyboard.

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Traces began as an exploration of melodic ideas for use in a short opera I was asked to compose for the NYC collective, Experiments in Opera. None of the ideas in this study ended up in the final vocal work but I later found the incorporation of the breath-controlled acoustic melodica to be quite refreshing and a good balance to the machine-controlled melodies generated by my BugBrand/Buchla hybrid setup. The piece begins with a low frequency rhythmic interplay between sound and silence, then adds pitch intervals as the low pass filter opens up. The piece then evolves into an exploration of different scales, ending with gamelan degung inspired melodies.

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from Modulisme Session 077, released December 17, 2022

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