CULTURE

Schidlowsky

Prénom León Nom Schidlowsky Compétences -Electronic Music. Description courte Born in Santiago, Chile in 1931; composed “Nacimiento” in 1956, a concrète music piece structured in three parts: “Exposición - Desarrollo - Catástrofe”. Bio About “Nacimiento” Schidlowsky recently was saying (December, 2002): “It was an experimental piece, a functional work, a piece for the Mime Theatre of Nois Vander. The production equipment were two tape recorders where the different sound materials were recorded. A tape loop running all through the piece with the sound of a heart beat was the basic element used, combined with musical materials and nature sounds then changed and distorted. I had the original idea and it was realized with the assistance of Fernando García and my wife Sussane Schidlowsky that already died”. Composer Fernando García, who helped Schidlowsky to produce the tape of “Nacimiento” remembers: “… it was composed in 1956 as incidental music for the homonymous piece by Mime Company of Nois Vander. My participation on that essay was only as an assistant of León, giving to him the tools that he asked me and that we were collecting …”.

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