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COMPOSER LOUIS AGUIRRE WROTE:
“Being a contemporary composer and find players who want to play your music is in itself a very difficult task . But getting the possibility to work with the rare kind of players who are fully prepared, the ones who understand and give the utmost for the music that they are performing, thats when you feel that a real miracle has occurred!
That is the way I feel about my working relationship with the percussionist Enric Monfort and the DuoMetrie: a meeting that has allowed me to write the music I really like without limitations regarding to technical, musical or intellectual matters. It is a blessing for a composer to work under such favourable circumstances because it makes it possible to create the most satisfactory results. In the already long collaboration between Eric Monfort and me, there has been a kind of musical -spiritual understanding between us which has given birth to many of my latest works, directly inspired by his capacity as an instrumentalist and his understanding of my music. In my opinion Enric and Carlos Gálvez belong to the type of soloist that Luciano Berio has described as the best players of our time: modern in intelligence, sensibility and technique. Capable of moving in a very broad historical perspective and solve the tension between the creativity of today and the past, always using their instruments as a medium of expression and search.”
Louis Aguirre has written the following pieces for Enric Monfort:
-Kabiosile (2003) percussion, flute and recorder (Ned McGowan and Arwieke Glas)
-Obba Kosso (2004) percussion solo
-Añá (Liturgia de la transmutación) (2005) Percussion concerto with (Axyz) ensemble
-Ayágguna II (2006) bass-clarinet and percussion – Duometrie (with Carlos Gálvez)
-Orun de Igbodú (2006) percussion sextet – KIMBALA
-Yalodde II (2006) percussion duo – xpercussionduo
-Egungun (2007) percussion sextet - KIMBALA
-Yalodde III (2007) percussion sextet - KIMBALA
-Among flowers (2007) 4 songs based in poems by Basho, for voice, bass clarinet and percussion - Duometrie meets Kristina Fuchs
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Spanish percussionist Enric Monfort is an experienced musician in the classical, contemporary and crossover music scenes. After his studies with the Amsterdam Percussion Group and Emmanuel Séjourné, Monfort has stablished himself as a versatile musician that creates and works in a very wide variety of fields.
He has worked with Koninkijk Concertgebouw Orkest, Nederlands Philharmonish Orkest or Orquesta del Palau de les Arts de València, Ziggurat Ensemble, the Barton Workshop, Percussion Group The Hague. He is percussionist with the Axyz Ensemble and N Ensemble.
As a soloist, Monfort has performed in The Netherlands, Spain, Luxemburg, Denmark, Germany, Turkey, premiering many pieces written for him. In 2006 he founded Duometrie, with bass clarinet player Carlos Galvez, and since 2005 he is artistic leader of Kimbala, percussion sextet and Percusons Festival (Spain).
Enric Monfort has been also in contact with different percussive traditions from all over the world (african, indian, south-american, japanese, korean and of course spanish and european) whose influence can be found in both his playing and his creative side.
With shows like Egungun, Kaleidoscope, Gears, Miniatures or Añá, Monfort creates new musical and visual experiences working with composers, dancers and visual artists. In summer 2008, for an audience of more than 3000 people, he premiered A la Terra, his last show for Kimbala, where Monfort invited world famous spanish flamenco dancer Antonio Canales and the basque duo of txalaparta players Ttukunak to this global song to the Earth.
Hola Enric Gràcies. Cuan puguis en fas arrivar per el meu correu a la web de www.insolitmusic.com alguna proposta que te interesi portar a Barcelona. Tots els teus treballs els trobo molt bons. Una cordial salutació Odracir Lavid
Encuentro Internacional de Arte Sonoro TSONAMI Buenos Aires 2009 Una ola de diversidad sonora contemporánea llega a Buenos Aires nuevamente
Del 20 al 25 de octubre en el Centro Cultural Recoleta de la ciudad de Buenos Aires tendrá lugar una muestra de las más diversas expresiones sonoras de la escena contemporánea en la 2ª edición del Encuentro Internacional de Arte Sonoro Tsonami Buenos Aires 2009
8 conciertos, performances, obras multimedia y una exposición permanente de Instalaciones Sonoras, convergiendo así trabajos de artistas Nacionales e Internacionales de diversas estéticas y trayectorias que toman el trabajo del sonido como eje principal.
El Encuentro de Arte Sonoro TSONAMI es una plataforma Independiente, de difusión del trabajo de artistas Latinoamericanos y de intercambio con producciones del resto del mundo vinculadas a las Artes Sonoras. TSONAMI es además un punto de encuentro transdisciplinario en torno al arte contemporáneo y la temática del sonido.
The “Encuentro de Arte Sonoro Tsonami” calls for sound artists, composers, performers, instrumentists and ensembles, to submit Works to be performed at the Encuentro de Arte Sonoro Tsonami 2009 that will take place October 20th-25th 2009, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The “Encuentro de Arte Sonoro TSONAMI” its a showcase and exchange platform for the work of national and international artists that gather around sound in its many manifestations; Music, Performance, Multimedia, Sound Installations, and other manifestations that don..t have a place in mainstream or traditional communications media, and that does not pursue commercial or lucrative ends.
