Mesías Maiguashca (born 24 December 1938) is an Ecuadorian composer and an advocate of '' Neue Musik'' (New Music), especially

electroacoustic music Electroacoustic music is a Music genre, genre of Western art music in which composers use recording technology and audio signal processing to manipulate the timbres of Acoustics, acoustic sounds in the creation of pieces of music. It originated a ...

Biography

Born in

Quito Quito (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, P ...

, Maiguashca studied music at the Conservatorio Nacional de Quito, at the

Eastman School of Music The Eastman School of Music is the music school of the University of Rochester, a private research university in Rochester, New York, United States. Established in 1921 by celebrated industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman, it was the ...

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(1958–65), with

Alberto Ginastera Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (; April 11, 1916June 25, 1983) was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century classical music, 20th-century classical composers of the Americas. Biography G ...

at the Instituto di Tella in Buenos Aires, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. In 1965–66 he returned to Quito to teach at the National Conservatory, but then moved back to Germany to attend the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, and the Fourth Cologne Courses for New Music in 1966–67 where he studied with

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groun ...

. He is regarded as one of the central figures of the Cologne School, active since the mid-1970s. Maiguashca worked closely with Stockhausen in the Electronic Music Studio of the

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in Cologne from 1968 to 1972, and joined Stockhausen's ensemble for performances at the German Pavilion at

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in Osaka. He also prepared the recording of the collective composition '' Ensemble'', organized by Stockhausen for the Darmstadt Courses in 1967. In 1971 he became a founding member of the Oeldorf Group of composers and performers, as well as beginning work at the Centre Européen pour la Recherche Musicale in

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, at

IRCAM IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of Avant-garde music, avant garde and Electroacoustic ...

in Paris, and at the ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe. He has taught in Metz, Stuttgart, Basel, Quito, and

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, amongst other places. From 1990 to 2004 he was Professor of Electronic Music at the Musikhochschule of

Freiburg im Breisgau Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...

, the town where he has lived since 1996.

Works

Compositions

*''Iridiscente'', for orchestra, sound objects & electroacoustics, 2009 *''Ton-Geographie IV'' for sound installation, violin, cello, flute, trombone & sound objects, 2007 *''Boletín y elegía de las Mitas'', scenic cantata on the text by César Dávila Andrade, 2006–2007 *''El Tiempo'' for 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 cellos, 2 percussionists & electronics, 1999–2000 *mini-ópera ''Los Enemigos'', premiered: 31 October 1997 Karlsruhe, Germany. *''The Spirit Catcher'' for cello & live electronics, 1993 *''La Seconde Ajouteé'' for 2 pianos. 1985 *''Fmelodies II'' for cello, percussion & tape, 1984 * ''...y ahora vamos por aquí...'' for 8 instruments & tape, 1977 * ''ÜBUNGEN'' for violin & synthesizer, 1972 * ''AYAYAYAYAY'' concrete music & electroacoustics, 1971 *:Note: for a complete catalogue refer to th
composer's website

Writings

*Maiguashca, Mesias. 1975. "Information zu ''Übungen'' für Violine, Klarinette und Violoncello." ''Feedback Papers'' 9 (Summer): 228–32. *Maiguashca, Mesias. 1985. "Zu FMELODIES" ''Neuland Jahrbuch'' 5:288–96. *Maiguashca, Mesias. 1987. "Espectro—armonía—melodía—timbre". ''Opus Magazine'', no. 13 (June, edited by Arturo Rodas and translated by Ramiro Salvador Roldán): 10–19. *Maiguashca, Mesias. 1991. "Spectre—harmonie—mélodie—timbre." In ''Le timbre, métaphore pour la composition'', edited by

Jean-Baptiste Barrière Jean-Baptiste Barrière (2 May 1707 – 6 June 1747) was a French people, French cello, cellist and composer. He was born in Bordeaux and died in Paris, at 40 years of age. Musical career Barrière first studied the viol, and published a set of vi ...

, Catherine Delaruelle, and Anne Grange, translated by Esther Starkier and Alain Galliari, 402–11. Paris: Bourgois.

Discography

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' ( Wergo 20252): ::Mesias Maiguashca, ''Fmelodies II'' and works by :: J. Harvey, G. Loy,

Kaija Saariaho Kaija Anneli Saariaho (; ; 14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During the course of her career, Saariaho received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet and from IRCAM for the En ...

, D. Smalley *
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' (Wergo 20532): ::Mesias Maiguashca: ::''The Spirit Catcher'', ''The Tonal'', ''Sacatecas Dance'', ''The Wings of Perception II'', ''El Oro'', ''The Nagual''. *''FEEDBACK STUDIO KÖLN'' CD 2: ::Mesias Maiguashca, ''Übungen'' for violin & Shynth. Other works by D. Johnson, ::K. Barlow, S. Foretic, P. Eötvös y John McGuire. ::K.O. Studio Freiburg *''ORGEL MUSIK UNSERER ZEIT IV'': ::''Zs. Szathmáry spielt Werke'' from Mesias Maiguashca (Nemos Orgel) ::und W. Michel, Zs. Szathmáry, H. Otte, C. Lefebvre. *SurPlus Contemporáneos: ::Published by Sumak, ''Música académica ecuatoriana del Siglo XX'' ::Mesias Maiguashca, ''La Noche Cíclica'' and works by ::J. Campoverde, P. Freire, A. Rodas, L. Enríquez, E. Flores & M. Estévez. ::''CCEN del Azuay''

References

Sources * * *

External links

Composer’s homepage
(in German)

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