Daniel Schachter - Camino Sonoro / Sonic Path (2022)

This CD traces the path that covers a creative period of 18 years through a selection of works composed between 1997 and 2014. These are not the only compositions from this period, but they are undoubtedly representative of the composer's evolution in the way of thinking the sound discourse. Below is a brief overview of the works as they appear on the disc.

1.- Dark Figure (2008-2010)

It is a narrative work that tries to follow the path of our perceptive memory and proposes a universe of underlying tensions that remain in a kind of unstable balance that finds no resolution. This stereo version was created from the octophonic original premiered at the Recolecta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, October 2008.

2.- D-Drawer (2009)

It is an interactive mixed work for Peruvian Cajon, live electroacoustic and pre-recorded sounds, divided into four parts that follow one another without pauses. All the sounds you hear come from the instrumental part. This version by Oscar Grela and the composer was taken at the 2010 Patagonian Biennial of electroacoustic music in San Martín de los Andes, Neuquén.

3.- Blue Light (1999 rev. 2012)

It is an acousmatic work that proposes a reflection on the perception of apparently symmetrical sound structures. The original version for 8 channels was premiered at the 8th Florida Electroacoustic Festival, University of Florida, Gainesville USA, April 1999.

4.- A cane (2012)

It is a mixed work for clarinet processed live and electroacoustic sounds on support, structured in four parts that follow one another without pauses with an arc of increasing-decreasing tension. The version that is heard was recorded live by Alfredo Crespo at the Recolecta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires in November 2015.

5.- Fragile Time (2014)

It is the 5th part of the cycle "Without Time", a collection of reflections on the temporal perception of sound discourse. Fragile Time in its original format on 8 channels was premiered at the EMUFest Festival in Rome in 2014 and explores different situations related to the search for perceptible time that are still recognizable in this stereo reduction.

6.- Bass strings (2006-2007)

For double bass and live electroacoustics, it presents an open dialogue between the instrument and live electronics throughout its five sections. The version corresponds to the record obtained in concert, recorded by Gustavo Toledo and the composer at the UNLa Sonoimágenes Festival 2007, August 2007.

7.- …distant roots maybe… (1997) –in memoriam Luis Zubillaga

It is the acousmatic piece that begins the sound path of this album. It was composed from two fragments of works by Zubillaga "Ambientes" and "Directionals" plus a series of specific sounds from recordings of ethnographic music. The work was premiered in October 1997 at the Recoleta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires.