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José Menor & RMSonce Project Mathematical Concert
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José Menor & RMSonce Project is an audiovisual proposal that brings together two Spanish artists coming from different fields (classical music and experimental electronics), who share a passion for mathematics and related musical experimentation, which are the basis of this Project. José Menor (classical pianist and composer) and Francesc Martí, aka RMSonce (mathematician, electronic music composer and video artist) explore the interaction between the acoustic sound of the piano, electronic music and video art, using the mathematical approach as a starting point. Mathematical techniques determine both the musical and visual content of the performance. Each of the works is built on a base of mathematic equations, which generate sequences of pseudo-aleatoric numbers that serve as a ‘DNA’ of the piece. These successions of numbers are used freely to determine the parameters of all the piece’s elements: the piano score (sometimes creating sequences and patterns of extreme virtuosity), the electronic rhythms and sounds, the real‐time visual projections, as well as the overall structure of each piece, determining how each of the elements is related to the others, and therefore defining the overall musical form. Within this framework there are also spaces for improvisation, both musical—in the piano and the electronics—and visual. However, these spaces are always subordinated to the mathematic essence of each piece.
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