Horizonte ondulado illustrates the application of the creative thinking of Madrid composer José Manuel López López (1956), of a personal and suggestive poetic and sonic imagination, to the timbral and dynamic potential of percussion instruments and their implications in the temporal dimension of the musical material. This album, performed by the Valencian percussionist Miquel Bernat and the Portuguese ensemble Drumming, is the upshot of many years’ collaboration between López López and Miquel Bernat, and reflects a process of creation in a close partnership which has enabled the composer to develop complex aesthetic aspects impossible to accomplish without direct, continuous work with the performer. José Manuel López López was involved with the works, whose interpretative demands are within the grasp of very few, throughout the recording and post-production, conceived in stereo, 5.1 surround sound and 3D formats for sound installations.
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released November 14, 2017
Recorded at
Sala Mozart, Auditorio de Zaragoza
Zaragoza, Spain
February 2016
Composed by
José Manuel López López
Performed by
Drumming: Miquel Bernat, Rui Rodrigues, João Tiago Dias, Pedro Oliveira, Pedro Gois, João Cunha
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