Paiuk, Gabriel

Res Extensa

Label: Sedimental Country: USA

"Res Extensa is a tape piece based on the superposition and juxtaposition of different layers of sound "registers". These registers are layers of sound materials related to our everyday sound environment and coming from different origins: marginal sounds from electric devices, analogue sources, field recordings, amplification of microsounds, recordings of machine noises, digital "errors" and "heard" musics. These sounds do not carry a traditionally codified expressive meaning but rather an emotional register linked to our everyday experience, an affective and tactile charge related to what we are exposed to. Within them, a great variety of articulations and nuances are connected to our feeling and understanding (of the world). The aim of the piece is to unfold, friction and break up this matters to expose them in their affective characters and our connection to them.

Gabriel Paiuk, composer, pianist and improviser was born in 1975 in Buenos Aires. He has taken part in groups devoted to free improvisation performing regularly in Buenos Aires, Europe and USA, together with Andrea Neumann, Jason Kahn, Axel Doerner, Burkhard Beins, Rhodri Davies, Matt Davis, Ricardo Arias, Lucio Capece, Robin Hayward, Julia Eckhardt, Sean Meehan, John Russell, Sergio Merce, Manuel Mota and Ernesto Rodrigues. He took part in Keith Rowe`s Electroacoustic Ensemble. The project, coordinated by Keith Rowe and organised by the Belgian ensemble Q-O2, focused on the performance of Cornelius Cardew`s graphic piece "Treatise"."-Sedimental