Nicolás Esteban Hernández

Nicolás Esteban Hernández
Biography	Nicolás Esteban Hernández (*1991) is a composer and academic musical researcher. He holds a master's Degree and a Doctorate in Music Composition at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Hernandez’ works comprise the areas of instrumental and electroacoustic music and his research focuses on the creative process, studying mainly concepts such as creative imagination, musical material and technique. His compositions have been performed in Colombia, Mexico, United States, Argentina and France by prestigious musical groups such as the CEPROMUSIC ensemble, the Colombian Symphony Orchestra and the Alquimia Ensemble. Part of his work is currently published by Cayambis Music Press in the United States. He holds a professorship at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (Colombia). ABOUT Nicolás Esteban Hernández / Luis Miguel Delgado: «Cartografía de un espacio oculto» «Cartografía de un paisaje oculto» (Cartography of a hidden landscape), is an electroacoustic work for stereo fixed tape created by two composers in different locations (Bucaramanga, Colombia and Pittsburgh, United States). This work synthesizes Barry Truax's concept of soundscape composition and free electroacoustic improvisation, taking as its theme the interrelation of the listener with the soundscape, and our role as recorders and sound agents alongside the landscape multiple agencies. Ideologically, this work presents the traditional concept of soundscape as a genre of fiction and proposes a different way of perceiving the landscape, from the interaction with (and within) different layers of the audible and inaudible soundscape, and the presence of the landscape capturer as a "maker" of Sound. This work enacts relations between field recordings made in the rural and urban sectors of both locations, including the soundscape and electromagnetic landscape of each site, and emerges through an entanglement with live tele-improvisation played by each composer with electroacoustic instruments and electronic processes via Zoom.
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Biography

Nicolás Esteban Hernández (*1991) is a composer and academic musical researcher. He holds a master's Degree and a Doctorate in Music Composition at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Hernandez’ works comprise the areas of instrumental and electroacoustic music and his research focuses on the creative process, studying mainly concepts such as creative imagination, musical material and technique. His compositions have been performed in Colombia, Mexico, United States, Argentina and France by prestigious musical groups such as the CEPROMUSIC ensemble, the Colombian Symphony Orchestra and the Alquimia Ensemble. Part of his work is currently published by Cayambis Music Press in the United States. He holds a professorship at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (Colombia).

ABOUT Nicolás Esteban Hernández / Luis Miguel Delgado: «Cartografía de un espacio oculto»

«Cartografía de un paisaje oculto» (Cartography of a hidden landscape), is an electroacoustic work for stereo fixed tape created by two composers in different locations (Bucaramanga, Colombia and Pittsburgh, United States). This work synthesizes Barry Truax's concept of soundscape composition and free electroacoustic improvisation, taking as its theme the interrelation of the listener with the soundscape, and our role as recorders and sound agents alongside the landscape multiple agencies. Ideologically, this work presents the traditional concept of soundscape as a genre of fiction and proposes a different way of perceiving the landscape, from the interaction with (and within) different layers of the audible and inaudible soundscape, and the presence of the landscape capturer as a "maker" of Sound. This work enacts relations between field recordings made in the rural and urban sectors of both locations, including the soundscape and electromagnetic landscape of each site, and emerges through an entanglement with live tele-improvisation played by each composer with electroacoustic instruments and electronic processes via Zoom.

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