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Pantaleón
Juan Sebastián Lach Lau - slach@koncon.nl
 mp3 (4.3 mg)
program notes
Pantaleón for custom drumset and two computers. Written and dedicated to The Electronic Hammer.
In this piece I break down and transform elements of Dub music and distribute them among the musicians. The percussion plays the central role and is accompanied and processed in real-time by the computers, one of which generates accompaniment material alogorithmically and the other which tranforms its sounds in a dub-like manner.
bio
(Mexico City, 1970)
Began his musical career playing piano and keyboards in the experimental jazz band Psicotrópicos and later in rock band Santa Sabina with whom he recorded 6 CDs and made multiple tours. He studied Mathematics at the National University in Mexico City. Later he obtained a Bacherors in Composition in CIEM, Mexico and achieved a high level in classical piano. He has the degree of Bacherlors (2003) and Masters (2005) in Composition from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, The Netherlands, with a specialization in Sonology, all supported by FONCA, Mexico. Presently pursuing a Doctoral degree in Arts Research at the Orpheus Insitute in Ghent, Belguim and following a pre-doctoral training in Systematic Musicology at Ghent University. He has studied composition with Juan Trigos, Víctor Rasgado and Ignacio Baca-Lobera (Mexico) and Gilius van Bergeijk and Clarence Barlow (Holland). He is assistant professor at the Electronic Studio of the Composition Department at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
His pieces have been played in Mexico, Holland, Ireland, England, Cuba, United States, Germany and Spain.
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