Roque Rivas

Composer

April - May / September 2022

Black and white image of composer Roque Rivas playing the piano

Anna Katharina Scheidegger

Roque Rivas wearing black standing behind white background

Elisabete Da Silva Fernandez

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  • Boston
“I have been studying the transposition of the principles of perspective in music in order to enrich my musical writing and our perception of sound in space.”
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I am a French Chilean composer who completed his higher education in France. For the past fifteen years or so, my compositional work has been focused on mixed music, with the aim of establishing a fusional dialogue between instrumental writing and electroacoustics. I am also interested in the sciences and other arts, especially plastic arts and architecture, which are major influences in my creative approach.

 

My projects to date reflect my taste for exchange and interdisciplinarity. In 2007, for example, I wrote a piece for bassoon and electronics, Conical Intersect, which was inspired by the 1975 meeting, or rather the strange juxtaposition, between Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, who designed the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the American “anarchitect” Gordon Matta-Clark. The following year, I collaborated with video artist Carlos Franklin on Mutations of Matter, a piece for five voices, electronics, and video. This piece, which was produced by IRCAM/Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, is a study of texts produced by Rem Koolhaas and various architectural theorists, that strove to re-create the mixity, simultaneity, and accumulation that can be found in New York City through a visual medium.

 

Over the past few years, I have been studying the transposition of the principles of perspective in music in order to enrich my musical writing and our perception of sound in space. My project for Villa Albertine is an extension of this reflection influenced by architectural design in music.

 

Born in Santiago (Chile) in 1975, Roque Rivas studied electroacoustic composition and computer music at the Conservatoire national de musique et de danse (CNSMD) in Lyon, and went on to join Emmanuel Nunes’ advanced class in composition at the CNSMD, in Paris. From 2006 to 2008, he attended the composition and computer music program at IRCAM and in 2011 he participated in the “Atelier Opéra en creation” workshop at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. His works are played by prestigious ensembles and performers and presented at major international festivals. His music scores are published by Durand Salabert Eschig.

 

 

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IRCAM, the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music directed by Frank Madlener, is one of the world’s largest public research centers dedicated to both musical expression and scientific research. Home to over 160 collaborators, IRCAM is a unique place where artistic sensibilities collide with scientific and technological innovation.
 

 

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