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Guillermo Galindo

 
CountryUnited States of America
OccupationComposer, Performer, Teacher
CategoriesAleatoric, Classical, Contemporary, Electronic, Other, Soundtrack/Film Music, Experimental Music, Electroacoustic Music

Guillermo Galindo
composer

Guillermo Galindo’s composition work blurs the conventional limits that define music and the art of music composition itself.
Galindo’s wide approach to concepts such as musical form, time perception, music notation, sonic archetypes and instrumentation span through a wide spectrum of artistic works performed and shown at major festivals, concert halls and art exhibits throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
From symphonic and chamber composition to live performance art and comprising the domains of musical and visual computer interaction, electro-acoustic music, opera, film, instrument building, three dimensional installation, improvisation and sound design Galindo’s work has always remained in constant flux.
His orchestral composition includes two symphonies Ome Acatl premiered in Mexico City by the OFUNAM orchestra (1997) and Trade Routes (2006) commissioned and premiered by the Oakland East Bay Symphony Orchestra and chorus. His operas include two major works: Califas 2000 with text and performance by MacArthur Fellow Guillermo Gomez Peña and Decreation/Fight Cherries f with text by MacArthur Fellow poet Anne Carson.
For many years a member and composer of Guillermo Gomez Peña’s Pocha Nostra, a bay area based international performance art troupe, and a resident composer for the Unbound Spirit AADP Dance Company (1992 to 2004), Galindo has developed his own brand of time based performance/ composition incorporating non Western ritual practices and real time application of musical form and narrative using sonic archetypes, architectural resonance and live audience interaction.
Galindo’s chamber and solo electro-acoustic works includes : TX3 (2008) (for cello and recorded tiger sounds) and Haiku II (2003) (for flute and recorded natural ambience) with text by Michael McClure which opened the first series of Latin American experimental music in the US at the The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Red Cat Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles California

Based on musical practices of indigenous American civilizations Galindo conceives and builds what he calls cyber-totemic sonic objects. Thus focusing on the relationship of sound and meaning occurring between physical objects and the sound they produce. His sonic object MAIZ is first used in the piece Post Colonial Dicontinuum (2006) for chamber and commissioned by the Earplay Ensemble premiered at the Herbst Theater during the inauguration activities of the new DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, California.
An article published by Galindo himself in Leonardo Music Journal 17 (2007) explains the theory behind the fabrication of this first cyber-totemic sonic object.
Galindo’s wind quintet Voces del Desierto commissioned by Quinteto Latino takes the idea of his cyber-totemic sonic objects a step higher as he writes a piece including instruments made out of personal objects abandoned by the migrants at the U.S./ Mexico border.
Galindo’s work on modification of physical sonic environments, audience interactivity, three dimensional installation, sound spatialization and acousmatics includes; Transmission Series, a series of 9 pieces focused on the transmission of culture through the information media of sound and radio in collaboration with composer Chris Brown; Glance, an interactive sound and video installation in collaboration with Gustavo Vazquez commissioned by the ISEA/Zero One international science and art festival; DIVOX a multi channel audio piece installation written for the Oasis Sonoro project which included twelve 2 hour pieces to be played 24/7 at the Bellas Artes concert hall esplanade in Mexico City and various new pieces that manipulate the resonant qualities of specific architectural spaces.
Guillermo Galindo presently is a senior adjunct professor at the California College of Arts where he teaches courses on sound art, electronic music, applied composition, action art and musicology.

Guillermo Galindo