The Visiones Sonoras (Sound Visions) festival has become established as the main event of its kind in Mexico and one of the most important in Latin America. It is designed to forge ties between artists and students, create new audiences and foster the creation of new works that incorporate the use of new technologies. By bringing together composers and through a series of lectures and workshops and commissions from Mexican and foreign creators, this festival seeks to help contribute to fostering sound creation involving the use of new technologies in a manner that encourages reflection on the implications of the use of these tools in the creative processes of today’s artists.
Visiones Sonoras also provides spaces for learning about and discussing specific aspects of the composition and performance of music incorporating cutting-edge technology, as well as the presentation of facilities and concerts with the ideal infrastructure for putting interested audiences in contact with the performers, composers and most representative expressions in the electroacoustic field today.
AC/E collaborated towards this year’s festival by supporting the participation of Carlos David Perales, who gave an address on ‘The conquest of time, reflections on the electroacoustics of the camera’.
He analysed in detail the computing tools and processes available for producing pieces for acoustic and electronic instruments and the consequences and impact they have on the resulting piece of music, pointing out that it is often found that certain features that are a priori highly desirable, such as the freedom of live electronics as opposed to the apparent restrictions of recorded electronics, have important repercussions on the execution and result of a composition. He likewise shared a few thoughts on both live and recorded electronics in connection with acoustic instruments, analysed creative and performance mechanisms in relation to this repertoire and discussed the so-called ‘electronic chamber music’.
Visiones Sonoras also provides spaces for learning about and discussing specific aspects of the composition and performance of music incorporating cutting-edge technology, as well as the presentation of facilities and concerts with the ideal infrastructure for putting interested audiences in contact with the performers, composers and most representative expressions in the electroacoustic field today.
AC/E collaborated towards this year’s festival by supporting the participation of Carlos David Perales, who gave an address on ‘The conquest of time, reflections on the electroacoustics of the camera’.
He analysed in detail the computing tools and processes available for producing pieces for acoustic and electronic instruments and the consequences and impact they have on the resulting piece of music, pointing out that it is often found that certain features that are a priori highly desirable, such as the freedom of live electronics as opposed to the apparent restrictions of recorded electronics, have important repercussions on the execution and result of a composition. He likewise shared a few thoughts on both live and recorded electronics in connection with acoustic instruments, analysed creative and performance mechanisms in relation to this repertoire and discussed the so-called ‘electronic chamber music’.