Horacio Vaggione

Horacio Vaggione (born in 1943 with Córdoba) is an Argentinian type-setter of music electroacoustic and Concrete music which is specialized in the Micromontage, the granular Synthèse, as well as the Microson. Its parts are often made up for mixed music (interpreters and band generated by computer).

Biography

He studied the composition at the national university of Córdoba and the Université of Illinois, where he could have for the first time access to computers.

Vaggione lives in Europe and visited all the electronic studios during the years 1970. From 1969 to 1973, he lives with Madrid, Spain and he belonged to the RISK. He Co-founded an electronic studio and the Musique project and computer at the autonomous university of Madrid with Luis of Pablo. In 1978, it goes to France where it resides at it still nowadays and starts to work with the GMEB in Bourges, INA-GRM and IRCAM) Paris where its music passes from the loops samplées and synthesized (as in Maquina de Cantar , produced on an IBM computer) to the micromontage. Since 1983, he is professor with the Université of Paris VIII and organizes the CICM.

Compositions

Maquina de Cantar (French: " the machine which chante". 1978, arisen in 2002, Ampersand 11)
Thema for saxophone low & band generated by computer (1985, WERGO WER 2026-2)
Tar (1987, Song of the World, LCD 278046/47)
Kitab for low clarinet, piano, double bass & sounds created and controlled by computer (1992, Centuar CRC 2255)
Schall (1995)
Nodal (1997)
Agon (1998)
Sçir (2001) for contrabasse, flute in ground & band preregistered
Atem for Cor, low clarinet, piano, double bass and device electroacoustic (2002)
Gymel music electroacoustic (2003)
Taléas for recorders and electroacoustic (2002/2004)

Source

Landy, Leigh (1994). Experimental Music Notebooks . ISBN 3-7186-5553-5.
Horacio Vaggione: Composition theory (Contemporary Music Review flight 24 leaves 4+5)
Makis Solomos (ED), Espaces composables: tests on the music and the musical thought of Horacio Vaggione , Paris, Harmattan, 2007, ISBN 978-2-296-02832-6 (work mainly taking again in French version the texts of " Horacio Vaggione: Composition theory )

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