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Guillermo Eisner
Biography	PROGRAMME NOTE Guillermo Eisner: «Esculturas temporales» (2022) The work is arranged as a continuum of sound fragments that seek to construct diverse ways of sculpting time; diverse gestures; diverse paths of accumulation and distension of energies. Esculturas temporales, composed exclusively from double bass samples, takes sound as a moldable material, and proposes to sculpt on it as if we could grasp it, take it, feel it with our hands. In short, it is a vain attempt to make tangible an ephemeral material such as sound, of which we can only verify the temporal and spatial experience that its fleeting presence leaves us with. BIOGRAPHY Guillermo Eisner Sagüés (*1980, Uruguay) holds a doctor in music composition by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He studied music and composition in Chile, Spain, Portugal and Mexico with the support of fellowships from chilean, spanish and mexican goverments and institutions. He has developed acoustic and electroacoustic concert music, participating in festivals in South America, North America and Europe. In 2021 he released the album Música para guitarra (Chile Clásico). In 2019 he released the acoustic music recording Música de Barrio (Cero Records). In 2017 he premiered the chamber opera Titus at the Teatro Helénico, Mexico City. In 2015 he published the book and album Guitarrerías. 10 monotemas para guitarra (Microtono) and premiered the chamber opera, La Isla de los peces at the GAM Cultural Center, Santiago. In 2012 he released the electroacoustic music recording Habitar el tiempo. Along with this, he has developed intense creative work in the field of performing and audiovisual arts, composing the music and sound design of various theatre plays, for radio theatre, dance, video dance and video art. Since 2019 he is a full-time professor in the Department of Sound of the Faculty of Arts at the Universidad de Chile.
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Guillermo Eisner

Biography

PROGRAMME NOTE

Guillermo Eisner: «Esculturas temporales» (2022)

The work is arranged as a continuum of sound fragments that seek to construct diverse ways of sculpting time; diverse gestures; diverse paths of accumulation and distension of energies. Esculturas temporales, composed exclusively from double bass samples, takes sound as a moldable material, and proposes to sculpt on it as if we could grasp it, take it, feel it with our hands. In short, it is a vain attempt to make tangible an ephemeral material such as sound, of which we can only verify the temporal and spatial experience that its fleeting presence leaves us with.

BIOGRAPHY

Guillermo Eisner Sagüés (*1980, Uruguay) holds a doctor in music composition by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He studied music and composition in Chile, Spain, Portugal and Mexico with the support of fellowships from chilean, spanish and mexican goverments and institutions. He has developed acoustic and electroacoustic concert music, participating in festivals in South America, North America and Europe. In 2021 he released the album Música para guitarra (Chile Clásico). In 2019 he released the acoustic music recording Música de Barrio (Cero Records). In 2017 he premiered the chamber opera Titus at the Teatro Helénico, Mexico City. In 2015 he published the book and album Guitarrerías. 10 monotemas para guitarra (Microtono) and premiered the chamber opera, La Isla de los peces at the GAM Cultural Center, Santiago. In 2012 he released the electroacoustic music recording Habitar el tiempo. Along with this, he has developed intense creative work in the field of performing and audiovisual arts, composing the music and sound design of various theatre plays, for radio theatre, dance, video dance and video art. Since 2019 he is a full-time professor in the Department of Sound of the Faculty of Arts at the Universidad de Chile.

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