Compositor, música para cine, danza teatro y diseño sonoro
MUSIC
"DELICADOS is a noise, improvisation and experimental music project by Daniel Goldaracena, Hernan Hecht and Andrés Solis born in 2006. It was done during a series of recording sessions made in a "cuasiambulant psico-funky" studio, installed for a few months under the shades of an abandoned house at San Jerónimo, a neighborhood in Mexico City. In this proposal lies a mixture of electric and acoustic instruments in combination with everyday objects like ashtrays, coins, adhesive tape or hammers, merged through rough analog recording techniques, in an age where computers have degrade the true and almost lost craft of the original audio recording arts." [Daniel Goldaracena]
"Daniel Goldaracena: Electric and acoustic guitars, pedal effects, ashtrays, coins, adhesive tapes, gaffers, waffles and bafles.
Hernán Hetch: Drums, percussions, SuperCollider programming, lap-top, toys, fruits, vegetables and one apple on every Wednesday.
Andrés Solis: Piano, prepared piano, accordion, MAX-MSP programming, lap-top, popp-tarts, pot-pie, prepared pear pie and more..."
Recorded at San Jerónimo, Mexico City 2005. Sound engineer: Daniel Goldaracena. Mastered by Nathan James , NYC.
Special Credits: Melesio, his dogs, el Abuelo.
SULFATO FERROSO
FEATURING: GALINDOG & ANDRES SOLIS
SULFATO FERROSO is an ongoing colaboration with composer and sound artist Guillermo Galindo intended for live performance in which the duo plays an electric guitar and bass sets with a series of analogue efects in a context of free musical structure experimentation.
.PIG is a Mexico City based duo formed by Andres Solis and Rogelio Sosa which focuses in live sound experimentation. In this album, the duo explores different instrumental and electronic sets mixing voice and recorder, harmonicas, accordion, harmonium, acoustic guitar and piano with analogue feedback networks and computer programmed processing stations.
Limited edition of 500 LP vinyl copies and packaged in a deluxe screen printed jacket with a clear spot gloss print. There are 5 different cover color variations each limited to 100 copies and containing a different color of vinyl. Packaged, like all Important releases, in a handy resealable Japanese poly-bag. Printed by Neil Burke at Monoroid.
Steven Wilson - guitar / laptop
andres solis - turntables
rogelio sosa - voice
daniel goldaracena - devices
Recorded live at laboratorio de arte alameda in mexico city on 27th feb 2008. Collaboration with the live action / improv group from Mexico City PIG. This will only be available on vinyl and is the companion release to the Bass Communion record Moltov And Haze being issued on Important Records simultaneously.
PLANETA KENNEL video piece is part of Daniel Landau´s "Grid City" project - a unique mixed media platform, fusing installation art, character animation, documentary film and live action.
Created for DAM´s "Altenative Sessions" project, the piece has had numerous presentations in Europe and the Americas, premiered at the RADAR festival as part of Mexico City´s "Festival de México en el Centro Histórico" [April, 2003].
PLANETA KENNEL reveals its sordid nature through the conjunction of surveillance footage and designed realities, exposing iconic figures in a post-realistic behavioural endeavour. A place where desire and fear collide into poetic encounters in the peripheries of a hyper-futuristic dystopia. You can watch the video in the video section of this site.
VIDEOS
Excerpt of XLIII A Contemporary Requiem.
Fragments from different choreographies
Kassim The Dream Trailer. Dir Kief Davidson, Music Andres Solis, Leo Heiblum and Jacobo Lieberman.
The Devil´s Miner Trailer Dir Kief Davidson, Music Andres Solis and Leo Heiblum.
.PIG (Andres Solis and Rogelio Sosa) at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
N.O.N.E. ENSEMBLE. Featuring: Pauline Oliveros/Manrico Montero/Julio Clavijo/Eduardo Meléndez/Carlos Icaza/Arthur Henry Fork/Andrés Solís.
BASS COMMUNION & .PIG, Live in Mexico City. Featuring: Steven Willson, Andres Solis, Rogelio Sosa and Daniel Goldaracena.
PLANETA KENNEL video piece is part of Daniel Landau´s "Grid City" project - a unique mixed media platform, fusing installation art, character animation, documentary film and live action.
Created for DAM´s "Altenative Sessions" project, the piece has had numerous presentations in Europe and the Americas, premiered at the RADAR festival as part of Mexico City´s "Festival de México en el Centro Histórico" [April, 2003].
PLANETA KENNEL reveals its sordid nature through the conjunction of surveillance footage and designed realities, exposing iconic figures in a post-realistic behavioural endeavour. A place where desire and fear collide into poetic encounters in the peripheries of a hyper-futuristic dystopia.
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BIO
Andres Solis [MEXICO CITY, 1971] is a composer and sound artist. His work has focused on exploring free musical forms that intend to dilute the rigid constraints imposed by traditional musical structures. He has sought to assimilate his environment to find his own language through computer assisted composition, improvisation and interdisciplinary artistic collaborations.
A special attraction for the performing and cinematic arts has led him to collaborate on dif- ferent projects of theatre, dance, video art, sound design and film music. He has also worked with prepared turntables and modified acoustic instruments in combination with analogue and digital processing tools. His work has been performed in Europe, U.S.A., India and México.
His academic training starts in 1989 in Mexico City at the C.I.E.M. (Musical Studies and Re- search Centre). Then he moved to Holland to continue at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he studied with Clarence Barlow. Later, in Paris, with the support of a grant from the French Government he concludes a postgraduate degree (D.E.A.) under the supervision of Horacio Vag- gione in the department of Sciences of Performing Arts in Paris 8 University, Saint-Denis. He was co-director of the experimental music festivals AURAL and RADAR in Mexico City. In 2012 he en- ters the National System of Art Creators of FONCA, México.
Currently he is a fellow in residence at the Montalvo Arts Centre in California. He was recently commissioned by the Montalvo Arts Center and the Santa Clara University, to compose and stage a requiem for choir, organ, live electronics and dance in memory of the 43 disappeared students in Ayotzinapa and the victims of violence in Mexico. This work was premiered in January 15, 2016 at the Mission Santa Clara de Asis, California, U.S.A. Along with colombian choreographer Sandra Milena Gómez, he co-founds “UDÂNA Plataforma de Creación Escénica”, a collective platform intended to research and promote works in the fields of performing arts such as dance, theatre, music and performance.
PROJECTS
- XLIII: A Contemporary Requiem; original music and sound design of choreographic and cho- ral work. Premiere at Mission Santa Clara de Asis, San Jose, California, United States [2016].
- Autoimmune; Composition and sound design. Stage play directed by Sandra Casale and Sandra Gomez. Mexico City [2015].
- Öffnen; music composition and sound design, Mexico City [2015].
- Choreographic tribute to Luis Barragán; original music and sound design. Address Sandra
Gomez, Germinal Festival, Casa del Lago, Mexico City [2015].
- Pollir Shabdo Remix x 2; sound installation, 8th Night of Theater, Borotalpada, West Bengal, India [2015].
- Motus Kinesis Part 3: In Center; original music and sound design. Choreography by Sandra Gomez. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, as part of the seventh annual festival of arts "Bay Area Now" (BAN7) San Francisco, California, United States [2014].
- Babel; original music and sound design with the company Bruja Danza. Work participant in Gui- llermo Arriaga prize held in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Address: Alejandra Ramirez [2014].
- Motus Kinesis Part 2 - Serendipity; original music and sound design. Choreography by San- dra Gomez. The 7th Night of Theater, Borotalpada, West Bengal, India [2014].
- La Malinche que Todas Somos; original music and sound design of the piece directed by Co- lombian choreographer Sofia Mejía. Mexico City and Bogota, Colombia [2013].
- Motus Kinesis Part 1 - Synchronicity; Original music [2013].
- Extraña; original music and sound design Bruja Danza dance company. Direction: Alejandra
Ramirez [2012].
- El Viaje; Choreography and direction: Sandra Gomez. Shows of Performing Arts in Mexico City, Iberescena cycle [2012].
- The Unalterable Certainty of the Samovar; original music and sound design. Direction: Jor- ge A. Vargas. Adaptation: Noé Muñoz Morales. Theater University Center (CUT), UNAM [2011].
- Festival of Electronic Arts and Video Transitio_MX 04; Electroacoustic conditions 1. Con- cert with George Lewis and Remi Álvarez. Arts Theater, National Center for the Arts, Mexico DF [2011].
- En Pausa; live original music and sound design, Bruja Danza dance Company. Direction: Alejan- dra Ramirez [2010 to date].
- .PIG; CNMAT concerts at the University of Berkeley and cultural center 21 Grand in Oakland, Ca- lifornia [2009].
- Improvisation; Opening Nights Forum Theatre and MUAC in U.N.A.M. [2009].
- Live in Mexico City; Bass Communion / .PIG. Important Records 194 [2008].
- Kassim the Dream; original music documentary by Kief Davidson [2008-2009].
- Feto Talk; CD, RAYS 001 [2007].
- Feto Talk; publication in the compilation of the San Francisco Music Festival [2007].
- .PIG; Catholic Isabela # 70, Forum 3x6, Museo El Eco, Festival Scene San Miguel de Allende, University of the Cloister, Festival of San Luis, Ex Teresa Arte, Museum of the City of Queretaro, Fuxion Underground in Morelia, Cell Contemporary, Hayastan and Border in Mexico City, Festival Internacional Cervantino and San Francisco Music Festival [2006- 2007].
- Formal Flood; composition and sound design of the audiovisual piece of artist Guillermo Roel [2007].
- Sweep 60n; electronics module for MAX / MSP, STEIM Netherlands, The Clarence Barlow Fare- well Event and Kölner Musiknacht 2006 Feedback Studio [2006].
- Sin Retorno; original music of the film by Marcela Nava [2006].
- Improvisation with Pauline Oliveros; Open Source Live CENART, Mexico City [2006]. - Delicados; CD [2006].
- Süßkartoffel Geschält und in der Mund; sound intervention, real-time processing of two sweet potato cart ovens, Ex Teresa Arte, Mexico City [2005].
- Belle Rogue; Kraakgeluiden, Amsterdam [2005].
- Son Condoy; sound walker, Instrumenta Oaxaca [2005].
- The Devil s Miner; original music documentary by Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkany [2004-2005].
- No Hay Tiempo; original music documentary by Eglantine Charbonnier, Paris, France [2004]. - Improvisation; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City [2004].
- Hiperhidración Paliativa; Conservatorio de las Rosas, Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts of Morelia, International Forum of New Music Manuel Enriquez [2004, 2006 and 2008].
- Planeta Kennel; International Sitges Film Festival, Korzo Theater, De Ysbreker Theater, San Pe- dro Hospital Antigup [2003-2004].
- Yanta; Sonic Arts Network Expo, Sonorities Festival, Catholic University of Lima, LOGOS in Gent forum [1999-2006].
- Dehipo; The Nutcracker Tour Orkest De Volharding, Holland [1998-1999].
- Miserere, Metamorphosis of a Variation by Clarence Barlow of a piece of the same name by Nathaniel Giles; The Enharmonic Organ Concert, The Hague, Netherlands [1999].
CURRICULUM VITAE
Profile:
Composer and sound artist.
Studies:
Postgraduate (DEA diplome d'etudes approfondies) Doctoral School of University Paris 8, Saint Denis, [2000]. Department of Aesthetics, Science and Technology for
the Performing Arts. Thesis: The Multidimensional Scaling Methods as tools for Music Composition (mention très bien). Profesor Horacio Vaggione.
Bachelor of Music (BM), Department of Instrumental Music and Electronics Royal Con- servatory in The Hague, Netherlands [1996-2000]. Specialty: Computer Assisted Composition. Teachers: Clarence Barlow and Gilius van Bergjik.
Music Theory at C.I.E.M. (Musical Study and Research Center) Mexico City with María Antonieta Lozano [1989 - 1995].
Professional Development:
Free lance composer and sound designer for various projects of theater, dance, film and multimedia projects in the United States, France, Holland, India, Peru and Mexico [1995 to date].
Co-founder of “UDÂNA Plataforma de creación escénica”; Mexico City [2014]. Co-director of Aural (formerly RADAR), area of contemporary and experimental music
Festival of Mexico in the Historic Center A. C. [2007 to 2013].
Awards:
- Member of Mexico ́s Art Creators National System [2012 - 2015].
- Composers Fellowship Award at the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Pro-
gram in the Montalvo Arts Center, California [2012 - 2015].
- Fellow, holder Promotion Program of Cultural Projects and Joint Ventures, FONCA, Mexico [2005].
Practical skills and languages:
Programmer MAX / MSP.
Music notation software, audio editing and production, management of Excel and Word.
Languages: Spanish, English and French.