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Refracciones Porteñas, April 28, 2023

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Notation for performance:

Concert treble | Alto Flute | Bass Clef | Alto Clef | Bb

SCORES

Despertar en la Ciudad (Ariel Pirotti) | Refracción 1 | Refracción 2 | Refracción 3

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Despertar en la Ciudad (Ariel Pirotti) | Refracción 1 | Refracción 2 | Refracción 3

SOUND (Ugly MIDI Mockups)

Despertar en la Ciudad (Ariel Pirotti)

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Refracción 3 Level 2

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Midi Practice Grids for Thursday, June 6, 2019

We’ll be accompanying 2 choruses.  One with a beloved Puerto Rican song, Verde Luz, the other a song El Amanecer, by El Taller’s founder Bernardo Palombo.  Verde Luz was sung by its composer Antonio Caban when El Taller opened in 1979. Also on the list are converse arches and rough hue>.

For
EL AMANECER

This is a recording of Bernardo Palombo singing the song. Although my arrangement is different, except for the core matrix episode, it follows the same sequence of events:

Here is a model of the actual
Arrangement.for advance rehearsal:

I’ve developed a core matrix extension of the sound.  It involves a cross layering of a salsa 3-2 clave system with a 6/8 clave system.

The first midi practice grid sounds the
Complete Core Matrix.

This is the
3-2 system, which anchor in the piano & one drummer.

This is the
6/8 system, which anchor in the bass, guitar & another drummer.

For
VERDE LUZ

This is a recording of Bernardo singing the song. Our arrangement follows what the cuatro, the plucked string instrument, is playing. There will be a cuatro player on the gig.

Here’s an MIDI mockup of the CORE MATRIX sound:

CONVERSE ARCHES
is a simultaneous 3,4 & 5.
This a basic practice grid:

SLOWer than usual

UP to TEMPO.

ROUGH HUE
old news for many of us, but here’s a basic practice grid:

Core Matrix

“Tune” Interface

\\/\////\\/\\/ \\\\/\\\ ///\///\ /\//\/

rough hue

New material, April 2017: Sliding Scales

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midi sound samples

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notation

sonic maquettes

rough hue: sampler of EXPLODES, in order from #6-11:

For April 14: rough hue: PALMADORES variation:

For May 12: rough hue: Crosscut Explode skeleton:

conduction signals

circumspect

Trio recording of circumspect from which was what CD — reasonably clear image of the core patterns:

virtual rehearsal

FOR JAN 12 & then some:

see script e-mailed out to you

This is a sonic maquette of parts
1. A-2 loop
2. Intro Spread
3. ABCB exposition:

This is section 4, VAMP ON A
examples of Explodes:

This is section 9, CODA (played once in performance, repeated 4x for listening):

ADDITIONAL MAQUETTES:

bass thread with even 2 counterplacement:

“rhythm section” elaborations:

complete ABCB score with 5 principal parts repeated over & over:

permeations gumvindaboloo

Rough midi representation of possible patterns & motion in permeations gumvindaboloo:

You already know the gumbo. This is the source for some of the vindaloo: Shyam Brass Band, Jabalpur, India.

This is the
3-2 system, which anchor in the piano & one drummer.

This is the
6/8 system, which anchor in the bass, guitar & another drummer.

CONVERSE ARCHES
is a simultaneous 3,4 & 5.
This a basic practice grid:

SLOWer than usual

UP to TEMPO.