Ángel Faraldo (ES, 1980) is a composer and improviser working mainly with new technologies.
He has premiered and presented works in Madrid (diario de Cualquiera [2006-2007] interactive sound installation for corridor and one loudspeaker, musique de l’indifférence [2001] for guitar, Apropiación [2006] for two computer-processed narrators, pre-recorded music and choir), Seville (Apropiación -electroacoustic version- [2006]), Cadiz (...y el hombre es el azar [2004] for chamber ensemble) and Mexico (Narciso ante un espejo cóncavo [1999], for two guitars). His electroacoustic piece Talla [2005] was selected in the 1st Radio Art Context “En el aire”, organized by Hablar en Arte (Madrid). He is the author of the soundtracks for the shortfilms Stadt-Fisch (Patrizia Monzani, 2006) and Café Solo (Naiara Seara y Estíbaliz A. Ruiz, 2002).
As an improviser he has performed in Amsterdam, Athens, A Coruña, Bilbao, Dresden, The Hague, Leon, London, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Seville and Utrecht, with improvisers such as Günter Heinz (DE), Eiko Yamada (JP), Matthias Schwabe (DE), Joe Tornabene (USA), Ricardo Tejero (ES) Mike Majkowski (AU), Laura Altman (AU), John Dikeman (USA), Raoul van der Weide (NL), Yolanda Uriz (ES), FOCO Improvisers Orchestra conducted by Didrick Ingvaldsen (NO), The Royal Improvisers Orchestra and as member of GIV (Vocal Improvisation, 2003-2007, Madrid).
He teaches courses and workshops on improvisation and new technologies.
Sounds Like
Short excerpt performing at STEIM (Amsterdam) May 29th, 2007.
You encounter people (and sometimes without knowing them or even having seen them) but also movements, ideas, events, entities. All these things have proper names, but the proper name does not designate a person or a subject. It designates an effect, a zigzag, something which passes or happens between two as though under a potiential difference: the «Compton effect», the «Kelvin Effect». We said the same thing about becomings: it is not one term which becomes the other, but each encounters the other, a single becoming which is not common to the two, since they have nothing to do with one another, but which is between the two, whic h has its own direction, a bloc of becoming (Deleuze & Parnet: Dialogues. 1977: 5).
