"Primexa" A WET Score for Oboe, Soubrette, Lyric Soprano, Spinto and Contralto Tessitura

"Crater 38" For Soprano Voice A WET (Words, Events and Text) Score

"Crater 38"

For Soprano Voice

A WET (Words, Events and Text) Score

Compositional Obstructionist Theories of Otto Werner (1927-2008)

Compositional Obstructionist Theories of Otto Werner (1927-2008), Professor of Music at Colorado State University.

Werner shared a profound theoretical manifesto only to his students (and never to external practitioners) based on Sebastiano Timpanaro and Jeremy Benthem's Panopticon writings. I studied with him for two years.

His outstanding gifts of textual criticism took the form of adversaria and punctual annotations that eventually yielded over a thousand pages of meticulous dissection of musical passages.

Werner cites a “plurally fraught metaphysical universe,” and a refusal of an authoritative “panoptic vision” of the world, spoiled both his own attempts at composition and the efforts of music critics looking for a tidy interpretive framework through which to engage and explain him. But as students of Werner, we echo his intent of a loose definition of young composers, the so-called “speculative realists.”

From Professor Werner... "the Panopticon is not merely, as Foucault thought, “a vicious, ingenious cage” (Werner misquoted this), in which subjects collaborate in their own subjection, but much more—constructing the Panopticon produces not only a prison, but also a god within it. The Panopticon is a machine which on assembly is already inhabited by a ghost."

Timpanaro

Werner's Redactionist approach to composition and performance was revolutionary and an absolute inspiration to a small, intimate group of composers.

Here is my response to my teacher/mentor...a purely Wernerian work employing all of his compositional coordinates.

This work of mine, "Organization Interpenetrate" for Obstructionist Solo Organ (Duration 1:43:34"), has been reviewed as "vexatious, galling, maddening, impossible, antagonistic, mundane, irritating, plagued, pestiferous :: subversive, insurrectionist, profound, political, extremist, 'provocateurian', hilarious, brilliant and untouched."

"Organization Interpenetrate" for Obstructionist Solo Organ on Soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/organization-interpenetrate

"Magnetic Winnebago" for Quartet. The PDF Score Link.

"Magnetic Winnebago" 

for Quartet

Bil Smith Composer

A Commissioned Work From Lydall

The Full PDF Score Link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByXT8veODB_TdEdISFRnWW44RU0/view?usp=sharing

Richard Barrett's Knot (2). Rethought & Refurbished by Bil Smith Arranger.

Laboratorie Experiments

Composer Profile: Gustavo Chab

Gustavo Chab, Composer

Gustavo Chab born in Buenos Aires, 1964

Attended the Juan Jose Castro Conservatory. Studied guitar with Dolores Costollas; harmony, counterpoint and piano with Daniel Montes; composition and musical analysis with Francisco Kropfl y Oscar Edelstein.

He was an active member of Otras Musicas Group and FARME of Buenos Aires and composed his first electroacoustic piece Mirada Roja in 1993, specializing in composition techniques in electroacoustics. 

Among Gustavo's awards:   a special mention of the Municipality of Buenos Aires, first prize of the FNA, and honorable residence in the International Electroacoustic Music Competition at Bourges. 

His compositions, include works for instrumental, digital and mixed media, electronic music, acousmatic art, visual poetry, music theatre, performances and sound installation. Frequently explores the spacialization of sound in composition mixing electroacoustic sounds, vocal sounds and acoustical instruments.

Chab is an active member of Sonoridades Alternativas of Buenos Aires.

Gustavo's Blog:  

http://gustavochab.blogspot.com/