Johan Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gyorgy Ligeti, Martin Matalón, Roberto Bolaño, Yan Maresz, Luciano Berio, Julio Cortázar, Andrés Ferrari, Fausto Romitelli, Alejandra Costamagna, Underworld, Lennie Tristano, Cecilio Carmona, Felisberto Hernandez, Luis Buñuel, Bill Evans, Alicia Inostroza, Glenn Gould, Javier Tomeo, Yanett Yañez, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aurore Reichert, Cesar Aira, Claudio Arrau, Salvador Dalí, Francis Ford Coppola, Sergio Valenzuela, Alifair, Gaston Leroux, Bruno Mantovani, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, Aphex Twin, MarcAndré Dalbavie, The Gotan Project, Ramiro Molina, Pierre Boulez, The Coffe Pinguean Orchestra, Claude Debussy, Antonio Carvallo, Maurice Ravel, Fritz Lang, Emir Kusturica, Frederic Chopin, Raffaele Grimaldi, Philippe Hurel, Sergei Prokofiev, El Bosco, Enrique Vila-Matas, Magnus Lindberg, Ximena Jara, Erick Satie, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Malher, Anton Bruckner, J.R.R.Tolkien, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Marta Argerich, and many, many others,...
Sounds Like
During 2007 Oscar Carmona (Piano and prepared piano) founds with Andrés Ferrari (Live electronics) and Ramiro Molina (electric guitar and intervened guitar) a group of free improvisation.
Here you can listen some examples of our improvisations. The first one is a long improvisation based in rhythm and color; the second one is an excerpt of a improvisation, maybe more structured, unconsciously more structured, and the last one, is a very short improvisation where each musician show an individual material that is interrupted by the other. After three has shown a brief different material, all are united to give to form to the sum of all the materials, looking for coherence, or looking for who knows what.....
Oscar Carmona was born in 1975 in Santiago of Chile.
Starts his piano studies when he was 14 years old at the Almirante Barroso Experimental School of Music, entering two years later into the Music National Conservatory to study piano with Fernando Cortés. In 1994 he enters at the Facultad de Artes de la Universidad de Chile to get a degree on Music Licentiate. In 1997 he studied Music Composition, in the same college, attending classes with masters Aliocha Solovera in composition and counterpoint, Cirilo Vila in stylistic harmony, and Juan Amenábar in electro-acoustic music, among others.
In 1998 he gets the Second Distinction in the XXIII Chilean Music Festival with his work "2 Piezas Negras" for solo piano. During this same year he wins the Composition Competition in homage to the fifty years from the death of the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro with his work "Horizón Carré" for female voice, piano and two percussionists.
In 1999 Carmona enters to the National Composers Association of Chile. In 2001 he received the Andes Foundation Scholarship to finish his studies in Chile. In the same year his String Quartet was selected and performed in the ISCM World Music Days Festival in Yokohama, Japan, by the Excelsior Quartet. In 2002 he received the Special Prize in the Composition Competition at the Universidad Católica de Chile for his work "Poema Crucificado" ("El Abandonado") for 16 voices a capella, and his electro-acoustic work "Kinesis" was selected in "IV International Biennale of Electro-acoustic Music" in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In the same year his String Quartet was performed in the Festival “Two Days and Two Night of New Music” in Odessa, Ukraine.
In 2003 his work "Configuraciones" was selected and performed by Hinko Haas, Bojan Gorisek (pianos) and Les Percussions de Strasbourg in ISCM World Music Days Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2004 his work "Cygnus X - 1", for piano and tape, was finalist in the INTERNATIONAL GAUDEAMUS MUSIC COMPETITION 2004, and his work "Nebula IV", for flutist with amplified flute, was selected and performed by Matthias Ziegler in the ISCM World Music Days Festival in Switzerland.
During 2005 his works has been performed in the festivals ISCM World Music Days Festival in Zagreb, Croatia; “Two Days and Two Nights of New Music” in Odessa, Ukraine, Music Encounters at the DePaul University in Chicago, USA; Festival Encuentros in Buenos Aires, Argentine, and ArtCologne, in Cologne, Germany.
In 2006 he participated in the Encuentro de Composición INJUVE, in Spain, where taked master classes with Kaija Saariaho, Martín Matalón and Mauricio Sotelo. In addition, his work “Nebula VII” for amplified violin, was played by Irvine Arditti, in the festival ISCM World Music Days in Stuttgart, Germany.
In February of 2007, he was selected to attend the composition workshop at Centre Acanthes, with a new orchestral piece. The work, "EN DEHORS II", was played by the Orchestre National de Lorraine conducted by Jacques Mercier.
In 2008 he was chosen to participate in the first year of composition and computer music course 2008-2009 organized by IRCAM, from September, and his work "EN DEHORS II" was selected to be played by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Juozas Domarkas (http://www.wmd2008.org/en/info/40) in the ISCM World Music Days Festival, in Vilnius, Lithuania.
In 2007 he founds with Ramiro Molina (electric guitar, electric prepared guitar), Andrés Ferrari (live electronics and live images), and he himself (piano, electronic keyboard, objects,) to the "DR. Equilátero", a group dedicated to free music improvisation (http://www.myspace.com/doctorequilatero)
He also teaches music composition at the Facultad de Artes of the Universidad de Chile and at the Escuela de Música ARCIS.
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Felicidades Oscar, veo que te va muy bien, y no es para menos, ya que tu trabajo esta increible, y ha sido muy bueno poder escucharlo por este medio. Bueno, felicitaciónes y prosperidad en tus proyectos presentes y futuros.
Hola Oscar, Ojala te encuentres muy bien en todo sentido. Bueno aunque se que no podras estar presente, te extiendo de todas formas la invitacion al concierto Copiu. Como tu sabes, es primera vez que presentare una obra y estoy un poco ansioso, pero hasta ahora va todo bien con los ensayos. Un abrazo y luego te envio la grabaciòn. Gracias. Richard M.
Hola Oscar, lamentablemente no pude despedirme de ti, Te deseo lo mejor en tus clases, y exito en todos tus nuevos proyectos. Un abrazo Richard-. Te envio la grabacion del ensamble despues que se monte, para que veas como quedo. Exito.
Gracias por agregarme Oscar!!! Te doy mis más honestas felicidades. Enormes son los trabajos que nos ofreces escuchar. Con tu permiso, seguiré espiando. Muchos saludos desde Madrid
nuevos conciertos kamken: --> miercoles 6 de agosto - sala Estudio Master Miguel Claro 509, Providencia - $2.500
--> miercoles 3 de septiembre - Rock&Guitarras macul/duble almeida - $2000
-->kamken se presenta en la SCD de vespucio jueves 4 de septiembre 20.30 hrs mostrando algo del nuevo material. entradas en feria ticket - $2.500 -teloneros: Disonancia-
--> jueves 9 de octubre - Rock&Guitarras macul/duble almeida - $2000
Hola Óscar! Felicidades por tu trabajo, en especial por la obra para flauta sola Nébula IV, me pareció impresionantemente atractiva, en $una época en la q tan dificil resulta innovar...De nuevo felicitaciones!
WOW - love your sound, especially the song "Le Jeu Suivant" - great tune. Really love your production and tonal choices too - takes a lot of balls to mix the influence like do and make it work!!!
Hope you dig our sound - this week we've uploaded the acoustic-based songs from our catalog. Check out "It Was You" or "Come With Me" - I think you'd enjoy them even if they are pure pop!
Feel free to download and share our music with your friends. If you want to hear more you can listen and download more than 24 songs from our catalog at our sister site at:
Olá Oscar,obrigado por me adicionar..demorei a ouvir todo seu trabalho, por isso só agora posso lhe escrever. Estou encantado com suas composições, tanta riqueza rítmica e melódica, gosto muito do seu estilo. Poucas vezes ouvi um jovem compositor com tanta inspiração..Bravo! Abraço (espero q compreenda em português)
