Experimental and electroacoustic music incorporating gestures and dance. Some of the many influences are artists such as Pierre Bastien, Matthew Herbert, Fátima Miranda and Mederith Monk among others and creators such as Cage, Pärt, Reich, Varèse and Stockhausen. Hypnotic compositions such as infinite loops, sound installations where an electro-acoustic orchestra adds to this exciting world of invention and reinterpretation from a robotic, dehumanised, futurist point of view via a host of references with a nod towards different moments in the history of art and minimalism.
Experimental and electroacoustic music incorporating gestures, voice, video and dance. Hypnotic compositions such as infinite loops, sound installations where an electro-acoustic orchestra adds to this exciting world of invention and reinterpretation from a robotic, dehumanised, futurist point of view via a host of references with a nod towards different moments in the history of art and minimalism.
wozzeck 2009
“Wozzek” by Alban Berg. Visual show of a world in decline. Nuevo Contemporaneo observe the harsh laws of human exploitation through the work of Alban Berg using everyday images. Tom Waits’ music provides the background to an image-less prelude – the expressive force of words and silence – then three visual acts with extracts from Berg’s opera, “Wozzek”
periferias 2009-2007
Electroacustic music and images for percussion with electronics in real time. Music by Javier Álvarez (Mexico), Daniel Almada (Argentina) and Jose Manuel López López (Spain) and premieres by Aurelio Edler (Brazil) and Jesús Navarro (Spain).
Pascal Auger (France) and Juan Luis Campoy (spain) videocreations to the Jose Manuel López López music “La Celèste” and Javier Álvarez “Temazcal”. Yago de Mateo video jockey in real time, Adolfo García sound engineer, and César Peris percussion are the artists who make up Periferias Sonoras.
gohan meeting 2007
The Percussion Group of CSMA conducted by César Peris performed with the international video artist Casey Reas and the DJ Chelis on electronics. The Gohan project was introduced by David Cuartielles, telecommunications engineer and artist and this brought the three artists together for the first time in “work in progress - John Cage music” with lectures, performances and real time video interventions at the Eduardo del Pueyo Auditorium in Zaragoza-Spain.
stockhausen globokar 2006
Bertol Brecht’s texts with compositions of Vinko Globokar and elctronic music from the friday and saturday Light Operas from Karlheinz Stockhausen first time in Spain was performance with electroacustic music and visuals in real time.
diffuse light 2005
Old time recreation from the beginnings of cinema in a Japanese theatre, with electronic and oriental music. The visual possibilities available to the first explorers of light in movement, re-interpreted by the visual creations of Juan luis Campoy.
chiaroscuro 2005
Light intervention sponsored by Ayuntamiento de Hijar at the XX Jornadas de Exaltación del Tambor y Bombo (The 20th Congress for the ‘Exaltation of the Drum’”), Clairoscur is a musical recreation with pieces by the composer Xenakis and Tom de Lew’s electronics with light architecture projections conducted by César Peris inspired by some of James Turrel’s pieces.
drumming 2004
The difficult rhythmic piece “Drumming (part 1)”, composed by Steve Reich with choreography by Myriam Agar and conducted by César Peris. Video intervention, dance, and music are mixed with time transformation through movement and percussion.
to the earth 2003
Japanese music, electronics, old texts, dance, and video arts in real time. Twenty musicians present the first multidisciplinary work of Nuevo Contemporaneo in Zaragoza. Juan Luis Campoy, visual direction, and Guillermo Sanchez, artistic scenic direction, show this first promotional video clip with images of the Iberica Sales (“old salt mine”) in Remolinos-Zaragoza with the dancers Estefania Aineto and Antonio Muñoz with choreography by Miryam Agar, and conducted by César Peris in the “Music through the time festival” at the History Centre in Zaragoza-Spain.
