Finding the Score Within
A few years ago, when I was composing a concerto for myself as vocalist, I rediscovered some tapes I had made when I was 6 years old. Back then one of my favorite things was a portable Aiwa cassette recorder and I used it to make non-linear musique concrète — that is a fancy way of saying I recorded weird sounds around the house, rubbing my toy cars against the microphone, alternately growling and counting off numbers in Japanese like some spastic MC.~~~
I am a composer and a vocalist, but not in the traditional classical sense. As a vocalist, I have learned how to make sounds inspired by different vocal traditions from around the world — sub-tone singing and screaming from heavy metal, throat singing from Tuva and Tibet — and have also invented new techniques like singing multi-band multiphonics inspired by jazz saxophonists. In each new piece I compose,
I start by finding a sound that embodies a feeling that I want to be central to the piece. I write pieces for myself and for others to perform. In the pieces written for others, I often use an instrument to discover new sounds. In both instances, I feel that the lab is in the body. When we learn an instrument, when we practice and learn a new piece, we are, essentially, transforming our bodies. It is there that memory can be embedded too.
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When I was 16, I was abandoned in a mountain cabin. I went there on a skiing trip with my brother and his friends, but when I awoke that morning, they were gone. They had ditched me to go fishing. Stranded there all day, and not finding a television to keep me entertained, I snooped around the house. Eventually, I came across a turntable and a box of LPs. I started going through the records, one by one. Crosby, Stills, and Nash; Led Zeppelin; Cream. After about a half-day survey of classic rock, I put on a record with the most earth-shattering, alien sounds I had ever heard. I was converted. For the rest of the day I kept replaying it — Jimi Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced?” I immediately knew I had to learn to play the guitar.
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Hendrix’s electric guitar is visceral. It is somatic in Whitman’s sense — the song of itself — and emphatically American. Hendrix’s guitar is immediately recognizable in the way speaking voices of loved ones are immediately familiar. It taught me that a sound, in and of itself, can embody a feeling and that there is a meaning that can only be expressed with that sound, that voice, that guitar playing in that unique way. It also taught me, by extension, to look for my own voice, my identity, in sounds. Yes, rather than putting on a uniform, or trying to fit in with people around me. To not only embrace my idiosyncrasies, but to amplify them.
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Argentinean composer Daniel Binelli’s Concierto Buenos Aires for two guitars and strings will be given its World Premiere by the Orchestre de l’Opera de Reims, Elizabeth Askren, conductor , on Wednesday, June 22 – 8:30 PM at the Eglise Saint-Maurice, located at Place Museux in Reims, France. Soloists will be the Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo.
The new works’ movements are Noche de Amor (Night of Love), Llegando a Buenos Aires (Arriving in Buenos Aires), Aire de Campo (Countryside Air) and Milonga-tango, Candombe . Other composers on the From the New World program include Leo Brouwer, Paul Moravec, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Arthur Kampela. Visit Elizabeth Askren at http://www.elizabethaskren.com/ and the Newman/Oltman Duo at http://guitarduo.com/ ..
For tickets and more about this concert and the Orchestre de l’Opera de Reims, visit http://www.flaneriesreims.com/c14-concert-du-22-06-2011-20h30-flaneries-musicales-de-reims.html .
Daniel Binelli’s music has been commissioned, premiered and performed by many international orchestras, ensembles, Tango companies and soloists, including the Zurich Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Colorado Music Festival, Montevideo Philharmonic, Colombia Symphony, and Buglisi/Foreman Dance Company as well as Osvaldo Pugliese Orquesta Tipica (Argentina), Tango 7 (Switzerland), pianist Polly Ferman, the Quintet of the Americas and the Binelli-Ferman Duo. Visit his website at http://www.danielbinelli.com .
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