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Download a free CD by Puerto Rican sound artist Claudio Yituey Chea
Sound artist Claudio Yituey Chea:
I am a composer of experimental music. My work is a free search that fuses different ways of producing sound. My compositions are the product of merging organic and digital components. I record sounds in places I visit; then this sounds are digitalized and arranged to create a "soundscape" that mixes reality with the abstract sounds derived from the original recording. To this soundscape are added other manipulations, melodies and instrumentations created in my studio, partially inspired by those first sounds captured.
Besides Yituey, I have formed, with Jorge Castro, the duet Cornucopia. Throughout the years we have composed many pieces in multiple formats that explore the nuances of noise.
Yituey and Cornucopia have played my work in Puerto Rico, the United States, and Europe. Our compositions have been heard world-wide via the Internet.
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Concept:
This proposal contains four tracks in .MP3 format for unloading, and the art for the CD-R cover in PDF format. With this components you will be able to record and package your own CD-R.
Conversing directly and indirectly with the concept of "public art", we have selected four locations: the Enrique Martí Coll Lineal Trail at San Juan Central Park; the "small square" of Plaza Las Américas; the Cave of the Swallows in Manatí, and the parking lot of a "walk-ups" complex in Guaynabo. These spaces communicate with each other in the language of everyday life; they are the soundscapes that surround us daily, although we ignore them most of the time. In these pieces I try to enhance an awareness of such sounds.
I have combined sounds recorded in said spaces, and mixed them with digital music compositions partially inspired by them. The dialogue between appropriate sounds, microsounds and tonal music is partially related to the process of observation, intervention and appropriation with which you, the visitors of this page, are going to engage these pieces.
Instructions for use:
Save the .MP3 files (the sounds) and the .PDF files (pocket cover art for the CD-R) from the download area to your desktop.
Most applications for recording music on a CD-R (generally included with your computer in the form of a CD-R creator) make automatically the format conversion that enables the recording of these files on a music CD-R.
If your CD-R recording application does not make such a conversion, we suggest that you unload the software Easy .mp3 (www.download.com). Follow the instructions of this application to convert the files to .wav format (.aiff in macintosh).
The CD-R cover art may be printed on a letter or legal sized paper (according to your printer), cut along the borders, and assembled by pasting the flaps to create a pocket cover for the CD-R.
