NOjac_m
NOJAC_M - (Cajon ‘prepared’ and mixed electronics)
Year: 2024
This composition is a tribute to the victims of the terrible flood that affected the entire Valencian community in October 2024. The piece is based on the constant dialogue between ‘prepared’ Cajon (a tree branch and a Splash) and amplified electronics that transforms the sound material, through processes of granular synthesis, evolutionary morphing, timbral glissandi and noise.
These three elements create a constant dialogue where, at certain moments, the perception of roles is lost; at some points, an inversion seems to take place, the Cajon emulates the electronics, producing noise, random rhythmic patterns, and vice versa the electronics seems to want to recreate rhythmic textures previously performed by the Cajon, then in the finale seeking a common dialogue through the unison between instrument and electronics.
The rhythmic patterns and the manipulation of the electronics are largely improvised, this to generate a fair amount of unpredictability of events, with no predefined patterns, the only previously defined parameters being the ‘tempo’ (BPM), which is fixed within the piece, and the formal-dynamic structure that the instruments and electronics must follow.