Wednesday 23 August 2017, 7.30pm
“GRM veteran Beatriz Ferreyra is carrying Pierre Schaeffer’s utopian musique concrète into the future.” – The WIRE
Delighted to host Argentinian electro-acoustic composer, Beatriz Ferreyra for the first time - performing tonight through an eight-channel diffusion system. Following the performance there will be a Q&A with Ferreyra hosted by Frances Morgan (The WIRE).
“For all Beatriz Ferreyra’s use of technology, something vivid and wild about her music gives the suggestion of the organic, even as the music is composed and controlled with extreme precision... Ferreyra manages to occupy an idiosyncratic position where she almost stands alone. Her pieces are possessed by an almost phantasmagoric intensity.” – Richard Thomas, The WIRE
A member of the original Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), Beatriz Ferreyra moved from her native Argentina to study with Nadia Boulanger and Edgardo Cantón in Paris in 1962. Ferreyra contributed to Pierre Schaeffer’s book ‘Traité des Objets Musicaux’ (1966), collaborated on the realisation of Schaeffer’s ‘Solfège de l’Objet Sonore’ (1967), and went on to take composition lessons with Earl Brown and György Ligeti at Darmstadt. As an independent composer, Ferreyra has received major international commissions, also composing for film and ballet. In 2014 she was elected as an Honorary Member of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music.
