Doble Concert per a Ones Martenot, 1970
Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny treated his scores as a work of art. Retaining their formal beauty and highly conceptual and experimental nature, they were referred to as ‘visual music’. Such is the case with Aronada (1971) – a word derived from Sanskrit and referring to the ‘circle of audible sounds’ –, a targetshaped score that can be played by any instrument for an indefinite length of time. Written by his friend Joan Brossa, Suite bufa (1966) is a theatrical action of linked sequences between a piano, a soprano and a dancer. In Quartet de Catroc (1962) – the title is again by Brossa –, a graphic score in three movements can be played at different tempos chosen at random by the musicians, thus providing an infinite combination of sound textures. Tres cànons en homenatge a Galileu (1965) uses live electronic media, in which the performer plays a piece that is recorded on tape, and which is then played back introducing different delays, so creating a perfect threevoice canon. Doble Concert per a Ones Martenot (1970) is the first work in Spain – and one of the first in the world – to be written entirely by computer.
Technical details
- Original title:
- Doble Concert per a Ones Martenot
- Registration number:
- 4098
- Artist:
- Mestres Quadreny, Josep Maria
- Date created:
- 1970
- Date acquired:
- 2010
- Status:
- On display
- Fonds:
- MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium
- Object type:
- Graphic material
- Media:
- Ink and pencil on paper and matricial print on continous paper
- Dimensions:
- 57 elements of various dimensions
- Room:
- Meier Building, Level 1
- Credits:
- MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium
- Copyright:
- © Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny
- It has accessibility resources:
- No
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