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Lecturer: Music
|  Felipe Otondo |
Sound and Audio Theory (MUSC 124)
Sound and Space (MUSC 270)
Dissertation (MUSC 340)
Composition 1 (MUSC 251)
Composition 2 (MUSC 351)
Sources study in contemporary arts (LICA 401) (MA CONTEMPORARY ARTS RESEARCH)
Research Methods (LICA 402) (MA CONTEMPORARY ARTS RESEARCH)
Contemporary arts research project (LICA 403) (MA CONTEMPORARY ARTS RESEARCH)
- Electronic music
- Sound art
- Spatial sound
- Interdisciplinary projects involving sound
- Sound installations and site-specific work
I am interested in exploring the creative possibilities of sound in different kinds of acoustic environments. My main research output is my compositional work which incorporates elements of electroacoustic music and field recordings. I am also interested in investigating creative approaches to the use of the physical space in performance in collaboration with practitioners from different disciplines. Currently I am exploring the potential of integrating mobile sound sources with movements of dance performers for concerts. See project's blog here.
Irama (2012)
This piece explores notions of pulse and microrhythmic developments using as timbral framework a set of recordings of a Javanese gamelan orchestra. The work is an aural journey through a rich palette of individual sounds that contribute to the overall sound of the gamelan. The piece is inspired on various temporal and timbral relationships between subdividing parts of gamelan music.
Piece to be premiered at the Leeds International Festival for Innovations in Music Production and Composition.
Teocalli (2011)
This piece is roughly inspired by the short story The night face up by Julio Cortázar in which a man driving a motorbike is involved in an accident and ends up in the hospital. In the middle of his hazy fever, he dreams he is a fugitive trying to hide from the Aztec Indians, who are active in their annual man hunt for the ritual human sacrifice. The short story alternates between the hazy environment of the hospital and the intense environment of the jungle and the sacrifice temple 'Teocalli'. The composition borrows from the story the idea of parallel narrative structures using as source material various percussion rhythms recorded in the streets of Mexico City, field recordings and interviews with Zapoteco Indians in various locations in Mexico. This work was conceived and composed while working as a composer in residence at the Visby International Centre for Composers in Sweden. The piece is dedicated to Xicotencatl Martinez-Ruiz and all the Mexican friends that helped me to collect the field recordings and interviews for this piece.
Sarnath (2010)
This piece was created as part of the project The Buddha's Footprint using field recordings from Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India. The field recordings, made by Francis Booth, include bells, drums and chants from the places where the Buddha lived and taught. The composition explores the use of textures and rhythmic passages to create different types of sonic environments linked to intense and subtle states of mind experienced through meditation practice.
Pacífico (2009-10)
This piece was developed as a collaboration with the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita who provided me with a poem that he regularly reads in poetry recitals. I then re-arranged parts of the text and asked the Chilean singer Cecilia García-Gracia to record it using different types of intonations and reading styles. The piece aims to capture the musicality of the Spanish spoken in Chile by concentrating on particular aspects of the text like the use of open vowels and specific consonant letters. This piece was premiered at the GLEAM festival in Glasgow and performed in concerts in Mexico, Argentina and Chile.
Ciguri (2008)
Fixed media composition performed at the San Francisco Tape Music festival (United States), Mantis festival (Manchester), Oscilación (Santiago, Chile), Contemporánea festival (Udine), Musica Viva (Lisbon), Soundscape and Horspiel festival (Zurich), SCD (Santiago, Chile), Ai-maako festival (Santiago, Chile), Nuit Bleue festival (Besancon, France), Vagform festival (Gavle, Sweden), Australasian Computer Music Festival (Sydney), Late Music Festival (York), Synthese festival (Bourges, France) and Leeds College of Music. This work received the 2008 Citta di Udine prize for electroacoustic composition, was shortlisted for the 2008 Soundscape and Horspiel prize and received the second place at the 2nd International Electroacoustic Music Competition CEMVA in Brazil.
Global Accent (2008)
Sound installation created for the Late Music Festival at the National Centre for Early music in York in June 2008.
To have done with the judgment of Artaud (2007)
Devised dance-theatre piece created in collaboration with Base Theatre. Performed at the 2007 Edimburgh Fringe festival and the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. Read a review of the work here.
O reche modo (2007)
Interactive music-theatre work with circus artists premiered at the 2007 International Computer Music Conference in Copenhagen.
Peer-reviewed articles
"Rediscovering Artaud's sonic order", F. Otondo. Journal of Music and Meaning, 1, 9, Winter (2010).
"Contemporary trends in the use of space in electroacoustic music", F. Otondo. Organised Sound, 13(1), 77-81 (2008).
"Creating Sonic Spaces: an interview with Natasha Barrett, " F. Otondo. Computer Music Journal, 31(2), pp. 10-19, Summer (2007).
"A New Method for the Radiation Representation of Musical Instruments in Auralizations, " F. Otondo and J. H Rindel. Acta Acustica united with Acustica Journal, vol. 91, pp. 902-906 (2005).
"The Influence of the Directivity of Musical Instruments in a Room", F. Otondo and J. H. Rindel, Acta Acustica united with Acustica Journal, 6, vol.90, pp.1178-1184 (2004).
Research reports in online journals
"Three Strategies for a Diagonal Sound Installation," F. Otondo and J. Soto. Journal of Music and Meaning, 2, 6, Fall (2004).
"Using the Convolution to Blend Brass Timbres," F. Otondo. Journal of Music and Meaning, 1, 4, Fall (2003).
Conference articles
"Flexible spatial design for dance performance," F. Otondo. Proceedings of the 2011 International Computer Music Conference, Huddersfield, UK, pp. 303-307 (2011).
"Deconstructing the urban soundscape of Mexico City," F. Otondo. Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference of Music since 1900 (2011).
"Mobile sources in two music theatre works," F. Otondo. Proceedings of the 2010 International Computer Music Conference, New York, pp. 446-449 (2010).
"Recent SpatialisationTrends in Electroacoustic Music," F. Otondo. Proceedings of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference, Leicester (2007).
"Shaping sounds in York Minster," F. Otondo. Proceedings of the Doctoral DRMN Conference, London (2006).
"Some considerations for spatial design and concert projection with surround 5.1," F. Otondo. Proceedings of the Digital Music Research Network Conference, Glasgow (2005).
"The combination of visual and sonic generative processes in a digital landscape", F. Otondo and T. Petersen. Proceedings of the 2005 International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, pp. 299-302 (2005).
"The interaction between room and musical instruments studied by multi-channel auralization", J. H. Rindel and F. Otondo. Proceedings Forum Acusticum, Budapest, CD-ROM (2005) .
"Sobre la realización de Zapping Zappa," F. Otondo. Webpage of the Chilean Electroacoustic Music Association (2004) (in Spanish).
"Sobre la realización de TRAMA," F. Otondo. Webpage of the Chilean Electroacoustic Music Association (2004) (in Spanish).
"Sound Source Representation for Auralization," J. H. Rindel, F. Otondo and C. L. Christensen. International Symposium on Room Acoustics: Design and Science, Hyogo, Japan, CD-ROM (2004).
"Comparison of Directional Sources in Simulating a Soprano Voice," L. Parati and F. Otondo. Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustic Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 487-490 (2003).
"Perceived Influence of Changes in Musical Instrument Directivity Representation," F. Otondo and B. Kirkwood. Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustic Conference, Stockholm, Sweden , pp. 655-658 (2003).
"Directivity of Musical Instruments in a Real Performance Situation," F. Otondo, J. H. Rindel, R. Caussé, O. Misdariis and P. de la Cuadra. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA), Mexico City, Mexico, pp. 312-318, CD-ROM (2002).
"Directional Representation of a Clarinet in a Room," F. Otondo and J.H. Rindel. Proceedings of the Nordic-Baltic Acoustical Meeting , Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, pp. 113-116 (2002).
"New Method for the Directional Representation of Musical Instruments in Auralizations," Felipe Otondo and Jens H. Rindel. International Computer Music Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, pp. 248-251 (2002).
"Directional Patterns and Recordings of Musical Instruments in Auralizations," F. Otondo, J. H. Rindel and C. L. Christensen. Proceedings of MOSART workshop on Current Research Directions in Computer Music, Barcelona Spain, pp. 230-232 (2001).
Reviewer activities
Reviewer for the Acta Austica united with Acustica journal.
March 2012 - Irama to be premiered at a concert at FIMPaC, UK.
January 2012 - Zapping Zappa showcased at the Art's Birthday project in Austria.
December 2011 - Teocalli and Sarnath played at the Streaming Festival in The Hague, Holland.
October 2011 - Sound installation at the Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, UK.
October 2011 - Teocalli and Sarnath played at Ai-maako festival in Santiago, Chile.
September 2011 -Teocalli and Sarnath played at the Reworks festival in Thessaloniki, Greece.
August 2011 -Teocalli featured at the Stuffinablank project in Barcelona, Spain.
August 2011 - Ciguri performed at the 2011 International Computer Music Conference in Huddersfield, UK.
July 2011 - Teocalli played at the Futura festival in Saint Denis, France.
July 2011 -Teocalli premiered at the Reina Sofía contemporary art museum in Madrid, Spain.
May 2011 - Sarnath featured at the Ohrenhoch Sundays project in Berlin, Germany.
May 2011 - Ciguri played at the concert UK Electric at the University of California, San Diego, USA.
April 2011 - Ciguri performed at the 2011 Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, Belfast, UK.
March 2011 - Ciguri performed at UNIRIO in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
March 2011 - Ciguri included in the CD Panorama Electroacústico 2010, released by Pueblo Nuevo netlabel.
January 2011 - Composer in residency at Visby International Centre for Composers, Sweden.
December 2010 - Sarmath among finalists at SYNC2010 electroacoustic music competition, Yakaterinburg, Russia.
November 2010 - Ciguri performed at the EMUFest international festival in Rome, Italy.
October 2010 - Launch of LICA SOUND: series of concerts and events at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, UK.
October 2010 - Ciguri played at the 23. Tage Neuer Musik in Waimer Festival, Waimer, Germany.
September 2010 - Ciguri included in the DVD Oscilación, Santiago, Chile.
Sept 2010 - Finalist of the 2010 Luc Ferrari Hörspiel competition, France.
March 2010 - Ciguri performed at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, USA.
March 2010 - Pacífico performed at GLEAM festival at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
March 2010 - Pacífico performed at the Festival de Música Electroacústica y Arte Sonoro in San Martín, Argentina.
March 2010 - Pacífico premiered at the event Habitación del Ruido in Mexico city, Mexico.
March 2010 - Ciguri performed at the event Sonic Artists in Wales, Cardiff, Wales.
February 2010 - Ciguri performed at the Festival Internacional Primavera en la Habana, Havana, Cuba.
January 2010 - Zapping Zappa played on the National Spanish Radio.
January 2009 - Ciguri played at the NoiseFloor Festival in Staffordshire, England.
November 2009 - Global Accent and Ciguri played at Zeppelin 2009 Festival in Barcelona.
September 2009 - Ciguri performed at Vinosonic at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, USA.
April 2009 - Ciguri performed at the JSEM/MSJ Festival in Nagoya City, Japan.
March 2009 - Contemporánea 2008 CD released with the piece Ciguri by Taukay records in Italy.
February 2009 - Ciguri performed at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, United States.
January 2009 - Featured composer in the radio program La casa del sonido, Spanish National Radio (RTVE).
December 2008 - Ciguri performed at the Art of Sounds festival in Belgrade, Serbia.
Dec. 2008 - Ciguri receives the second prize at the International Electroacoustic Music Competition CEMVA, Brazil.
October 2008 - Peformance of Ciguri at Ai-maako Festival in Santiago, Chile.
October 2008 - Ciguri performed at the Contemporánea Festival in Udine, Italy.
October 2008 - Performance of Ciguri at the Music Viva Festival, Lisbon, Portugal.
October 2008 - First prize at the international composition competition Citta di Udine 2008 with the piece Ciguri, Udine, Italy.
Full list of performances here.
