Music
Partial list of my compositions and musical projects. Most are available for download. The description of some of the pieces includes the program notes for concert performances.
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Presented at the MiTo Festival, Milan 2009.
A work in which a live pianist (Nanou) interacts with complex musical patterns generated by two disklaviers (mechanical pianos) physically located at CCRMA in California but played in real-time from Milan by the composer himself. The co-presence of multiple pianos within a single concert hall is made possible by the use of JackTrip: a network technology that permits better-than-cd quality audio to be streamed across the internet to allow performers on both traditional and non-traditional instruments to perform live with remotely located musical partners. In the case of Canned Bit Mechanics, the interplay between remote controlled disklaviers and a live piano is further shaped by a pair of avatar-performers, present only within the virtual world of Sirikata.
In this rendition of the piece, the avatar interacts with the virtual world generating sound based on its coordinated. The sound is duffused in a multichannel (8-channels) system with the use of Ambisonics. In the future, when Sirikata develops further and add extra features, it will be possilbe manipulate machinery controlled by the piano and disklaviers in a digital post-industrial landscape, the avatars will be able to bend (pitch shift) and interfere with (glitch) the musical patterns of the composition.
Chryssie Nanou (piano) - Milan
Juan-Pablo Caceres (jacktriped-disklaviers) - Milan (with the 2 disklavier at CCRMA)
Robert Hamilton (Sirikata interactions) - Milan
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Mixed Reality Performance: una serata in Sirikata.
Presented at the MiTo Festival, Milan 2009.
Dei Due Mondi explores the use of virtual space as both communal instrument and dynamic meeting space, bringing together musical performers from around the globe who interact with the environment as well as themselves as the piece unfolds. Worlds collide and become one as motion and gesture in the virtual world are realized as audible sound and music in the physical world. The audience itself teeters on the edge, positioned between two worlds, as a multi-channel sound system surrounds and envelops the concert hall, placing virtual performers and their musical gestures around and directly within the listening space.
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Mixed Reality Performance: una serata in Sirikata.
Net vs. Net Network Collective
A local pianist on a grand piano performs with two cat players, one on a remote networked Disklavier and the other with four sampled pianos. 1+2+4=CAT.
Chryssie Nanou (piano), CCRMA
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (the cat) - CCRMA
Juan-Pablo Caceres (jacktriped-disklavier) - CCRMA (with piano in a different room)
More info at Net vs. Net Collective
and full details on the
PROGRAM NOTES.
Net vs. Net Network Collective
Net:Disturbances is a structured improvisation that explores multi-channel feedback delays on the network. The delay path between Stanford (California, USA) and SARC (Belfast,Northern Ireland) is used as a variable feedback comb filter for each of the eight channels of audio linking the two sites. The rhythmic meter of the piece follows the delay path as a way of synchronization/a-synchronization between the two performers. Chaotic echoes move on a space embedded in the network path. A custom visualization tool shows the activity of the musicians on each location and also cues the different parts of the piece. The visualization helps the audience and the performers to identify performative roles. The piece uses the Jacktrip audio streamer, the SuperCollider programing language, Processing visuals and The Network. It will be performed simultaneously in two locations.
Performed at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), August 25th, 2008. [mp3]
Reviews:
» ICMC 2008 Report
Net vs. Net Network Collective
An improvisatory exploration of drones, phrases and feedbacks crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
» Perfomance at CCRMA, April 4th, 2008.
[mp3]
» Distributed Studio Recording, June 5, 2008 [mp3]
Net vs. Net Network Collective
This piece is a structured improvisation that explores a 3-ways synthesizer (2 real analog, one fake analog) extravaganza. On top of that, feedbacks an delays are explored network acoustic path, using a 4-channel Feedback Delay Network. This piece takes also inspiration in the original Lopez-Lezcano's "El dinosaurio habla", for analog synthesizer and superlooper. We use Jacktrip, SuperCollider, a lot of analog and digital circuits, and The Network.
Performed in the Technische Universität Berlin, May 22nd, 2008. [mp3]
A real-time improvisational distillation of a previous project, 'orquesta', where I "pieced together zillion little orchestral instrument samples." This time I am using the same idea, but real-time and sound processing (forbidden ingredients of the previous project) are permitted and most welcome.
This piece was performed at the CCRMA Modulations concert at the CELLSpace, San Francisco, November 30th 2007.
More pictures of the event on Flickr.
Net vs. Net Network Collective
This piece is a structured improvisation that explores multi-channel feedback delays on the network. The delay path between Stanford (California, USA) and SARC (Belfast, Ireland) is used as a variable feedback comb filter for each of the four channels. The rhythmic meter of the piece follows this delay path as a way of synchronization / a-synchronization between the two performers. Echoes move on a space embedded on the network path. A custom visualization tool shows the activity of the musicians on each location and also cues the different parts of the piece. We use Jacktrip, SuperCollider, Processing and The Network.
Net vs. Net is a collective of musicians exploring the potential of high-speed networks as a real-time performance medium. Founded by Juan-Pablo Cáceres and Alain Renaud, it takes its inspiration from the comic strip “Spy vs. Spy” as a metaphor of the “delay battle” that happens on the network between two or more geographically displaced musicians.
The video showcases a Net vs. Net performance (Juan-Pablo Cáceres @ CCRMA & Alain Renaud @ SARC), November 9, 2007, 8:00 (PST) pm. CCRMA Stage, Department of Music, Stanford University, Stanford, CA & Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. [VIMEO (login to download)]
Carlos Costa (Chile) created this video and art for the last piece of the 'orquesta' album (PPL-3) as an artistic parallel to the metaphor of creation from self contained debris.
The video features the creation process of one of Costa's artistic installations. [VIMEO (login to download)]
This video has been presented at SEAMUS conference, CCRMA concert series, Arizona State University.
'orquesta' (released through
INNOVA records),
a paradox in itself, an album
of strictly acoustic sounds, but entirely produced in a computer. The
composer wanted to approach electronic music from a different perspective,
using algorithmic composition to sketch several sonic realizations,
and based on the results, 'manually' craft each piece.
The album was constructed using hundreds of samples (generally of no more
than one second each) of chamber instruments executing extended techniques.
Each piece was then painstakingly hand crafted from these, without further
processing of the samples. This straightforward approach required that
each sound be place—by hand—in a metaphorically gigantic staff score
on the computer screen. This procedure gives a wink to the beginnings of
concrete music, but in this case using an unaltered acoustic instrumental
source. The CD comprises individual compositions that explore either a
sonority family or an instrumental behavior. 'orquesta' is a sonic and
rhythmic reflection on the nature of contemporary music and its 'relation'
with popular or electronic music.
You can get a physical copy of the record at Amazon or at INNOVA records.
Track listing and download
1. la cuerda [mp3]
2. lo gaseoso [mp3]
3. la multiplicidad [mp3]
4. lo metálico [mp3]
5. lo tenido [mp3]
6. la orquesta [mp3]
Reviews:
» EMOL (Chilean newspaper)
» El Mercurio (Chilean newspaper)
» All Music Guide
» Rockaxis (Chilean magazine)
» MUS.cl (Chilean online music portal)
Co-Author: Bruno Ruviaro
The piece is a collaborative compositional work. Both composers had a fundamental role in every step of the creative process, from sound design to final production. Physical control of various sound generators was used to shape musical gestures, which were then structurally organized mostly according to timbre and rhythm. Space was conceived as an extension of the inner rhythm of sounds, emphasizing their relative speed or immobility within the musical texture.
Listen to a stereo reduction [mp3] (this file not for concert performance)
This piece was awarded the First Prize in the Digital Art Awards 2005 (Japan)
Yonhosago is a Chilean avant-rock band in which I performed drum set, trumpet, synthesizer and tape support for several years before moving to the US to start my PhD.
We edited this album through the Italian label Lizard Records, which I also mixed and produced.
Track listing and download
1. Depósito Ausente [mp3]
2. Enrique [mp3]
3. Entomólogo [mp3]
4. Sr. Osago [mp3]
5. Treme [mp3]
6. Evangélico [mp3]
Band Members:
Santiago Astaburuaga, bass
Santiago Blanca, guitar
Juan Pablo Cáceres, drums, trumpet, synthesizer, tape manipulation
Nicolás Carrasco, synthesizer, tape manipulation
Felipe Maino, violin
Reviews:
» EMOL (Chilean newspaper)
» Rockaxis (Chilean magazine)
En la obra [sic] quise trabajar sobre la transformación a nivel del instrumento, y como esta puede llevarse más allá hasta cambiar los roles entres sonidos acústicos y electrónicos. Además, desde la realización electrónica, pude transformarme también en “interprete” de mi propia obra. La pieza es sencillamente un juego de encuentros y equivocaciones.
Score [pdf]
Performance at the XIII Festival of Contemporary Music, Santiago, Chile.
[mp3 |
wav]
Celso López, Violoncello
Juan-Pablo Cáceres, Electronics
Performance at the Catholic University, Santiago, Chile [mp3 | wav]
Performance at the Catholic University, Santiago, Chile [mp3 | wav]
NEWS
» Aug/6-10/2012: CCRMA Summer Workshop Network Sound and Data Workshop
MUSIC QUICK LINKS
Canned Bits Mechanics (2009)
For Grand Piano, two JackTriped-Disklaviers, and visualizations/interactions in Sirikata
Dei Due Mondi (2009)
For Virtual World Perfromers in Sirikata.
CAT bits mechanics, Study Num. 1 (2009)
For Grand Piano, Cat player, and JackTriped-Disklavier
NET:DISTURBANCES (2008)
For Synthesizers, Alto Saxophone and One Acoustic Network of Four Channels
Drony Feeds Back (2008)
For Synthesizer+Laptop, Soprano Saxophone and Feedback Delay Network (4 channels)
The Dinosaur At War (2008)
for Three Synthesizers, Three Locations, and One Acoustic Network of Four Channels.
Divertimento Ritmico (2007)
For Two Synthesizers , Two Locations, and One Acoustic Network of Four Channels
orquesta+PPL3 (2006)
Video Art
orquesta (2005)
Acousmatic Album
Chamber of the late half hour (2005)
Electroacoustic sounds, 4-channels Acousmatic
Yonhosago - Album 1 (descuento) (2005)
Avant-Rock Album
[sic] (2002)
For Violoncello and Electronics
SINTOME+ (2002)
For oboe, violin and soprano
La última morada del... (2001)
For baritone saxophone, trombone and timpani
ABOUT JUAN-PABLO CACERES
I am a composer and an engineer born in Santiago, Chile. I am currently a PhD candidate in Computer Music
at Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
(CCRMA).
LINKS
2008-2009 by Juan-Pablo Cáceres (jcaceres [at] ccrma [dot] stanford [dot] edu)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.