Électroprésence

Mambo à la Braque

Javier Álvarez

Mambo à la Braque has been performed in Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Berkeley, Birmingham, Bristol, Brussels, Cagliari, Crest, Essen, Glasgow, Grenoble, Huddersfield, Mar del Plata, Montpellier, Montréal, Morelia, San Francisco, San Luis Potosí, São Paulo, Valdivia and Vienna…

Like words made out of cutting letters from a newspaper, I have used in Mambo à la Braque [Braque-style Mambo] short musical segments which come from the well known mambo Caballo Negro by composer Dámaso Pérez Prado to whom this short piece pays homage. I have reassembled them into a sound mosaic and used a few other sounds to ‘glue’ them together. My aim was to create a sort of cubist music, or put in other words, a mambo of my own invention made out of mambo cuttings.

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Premiere

  • November 2, 1990, Montréal musiques actuelles / New Music America, Acousmonium: Concert 6: Électro clips, Théâtre Les Loges, Montréal (Québec)

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Mambo à la Braque (1990), 3:02
Javier Álvarez
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