Gustavo Chab - Big Freeze

Biography

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, and composition and musical analysis with Francisco Kropfl y Oscar Edelstein. Was an active member of Otras Musicas Group, and FARME of Buenos Aires. He composed his first electroacoustic piece Mirada Roja in 1993, specializing in composition techniques in electroacoustics . He has received-among many awards- a special mention of the municipality of Buenos Aires, first prize of the FNA, and honourable residence in the International Electroacustic Music Competition at Bourges. His compositions, including works for instrumental, digital, and mixed media, acousmatic art, visual poems and sound installation.

Recent works are: Eterea (violin and electronics sounds (2004-2005) Lever-k, Dedálico, Dibujos sobre un plano I, II (acousmatic 2007-2012), and many work
s for voices: M-Blog, Extended words, Paranatellon (2009-2014) and performances that include experiences with Theater Music like Free Death (clarinet and cd-tape recorder), Big Freeze I (piano), II (electronic music)

From 2014 is active member of “Alternativas sonoras” of Buenos Aires.

Attended Stockhausen Courses in Kurten 2011, 2013 and different seminar like Intuitive Music (Ensemble Weimar) - Sound Projection (Bryan Wolf) – Stockhausen, workshop and lectures.

Was attended at Internationales Music Institute Darmstadt IMD in 2012

Big Freeze for GlassWorlds

(by the composer himself)

As a Kaleidoscope that operates on the principle of multiple reflection, 

mirrors create and duplicate images of the objects

Arbitrary and symmetrical clouds as an initial abstract design 

like a basic form that exhibit similar characteristics at every level

A player looks inside the clouds..

Objects as clouds is applied and are transformed

Differents possibilities of geometry appear and the design structures 

are incorporate like new elements that always change their length in time