'orquesta' (released through INNOVA records), a paradox in itself, an album of strictly acoustic sounds, but entirely produced in a computer. The composer wanted to approach electronic music from a different perspective, using algorithmic composition to sketch several sonic realizations, and based on the results, 'manually' craft each piece.
The album was constructed using hundreds of samples (generally of no more than one second each) of chamber instruments executing extended techniques. Each piece was then painstakingly hand crafted from these, without further processing of the samples. This straightforward approach required that each sound be place -by hand- in a metaphorically gigantic staff score on the computer screen. This procedure gives a wink to the beginnings of concrete music, but in this case using an unaltered acoustic instrumental source. The CD comprises individual compositions that explore either a sonority family or an instrumental behavior. 'orquesta' is a sonic and rhythmic reflection on the nature of contemporary music and its 'relation' with popular or electronic music.
Carlos Costa (Chile) created the video and art for the last piece of the suite (PPL-3) as an artistic parallel to the metaphor of creation from self contained debris.