Mexican-dutch composer Juan Felipe Waller's official homepage. His compositions often
reflect a discourse between harmony and texture put through a 'lens of deformation'.
This section features the sources and inspirations of my own research
within music by comparative means.
In order to illustrate some examples you can listen and compare to some
own Deformative Results against the Original Excerpts from which they
were inspired.
The orginal excerpts are either music extracts from other music genres
or own recordings from what I call sound-specific generators.
In this section, certain aspects from electronic music are applied to acoustic instruments.
1 ) Detone Retune
Acoustic Rhyrhmic-filtering on metal
Acoustic Band-filtering on tiles
• Rhythmic-'filtering' on metal using styrofoam
• Acoustic 'band-fltering' on ceramic tiles
2 ) Plato Plastic Dialogues
Original - electronic improvisation
Result - acoustic improv on a plastic plate
Comparative Mix (Left vs Right channel)
Here is a comparison of an improv I did with electronic means, and a purely acoustic improvisation I made on a disposable plastic plate. The direct analogy of the sounds from scraped plastic with some electronic music trends is quite striking.
Listen to the written composition for percussion quartet here
3 ) Teguala
Tile-scratch and hand filtering
Drumstick filtering
Needle-scratch filtering
In this examples the effects of equalizers and filters are obtained purely by acoustic means, playing on ceramic tiles
4 ) Fenetres
Original - piano lower register
Original - piano mid-register
Result - Final merge
These orginals are recordings I made on a piano,Â
by preparing it with fishing lines and rosin.
5 ) Reconnaissances
Original - Improv on prepared piano
Result - applied within a piece
View score
In this example, I prepared the piano simply by taping all the strings with masking tape. A filtering effect is the result, reminiscent to a woodblock on the highest registers and harp sounding on the middle register.
Mexicanisms
In this section, specific aspects from mexican traditional music and culture are abstracted or enhanced
