Etude du relief des chants des Hyla cinerea

Reimagined by Juan Guillermo Dumay.

"This piece is inspired by some of the sound principles found in nature. Mainly the model of animals' sound signals. Their rhythmic order by call and response, specific to frogs and other animals and insects, as well as the phenomenon of the sensation of spatiality. I wanted to bring out these elements, for example by isolating the voices of frogs from the background sound, through a dynamic computer process. Thanks to the use of "gates", I can then use these signals to trigger other musical elements such as sound samples or textures as pink noise, which generate evolving and unpredictable rhythmic patterns. In this way, I take the opportunity to immerse my composition in a certain logic specific to the elements of Nature as a whole, to the detriment of the logic of musical rhythmic subdivision, specific to the contemporary (mainstream) Culture. I could say that this is the basis of the composition, but in addition I would say that the architecture and sound morphology of the piece respond to additions of sound layers influenced by a certain atmospheric mood, built by a couple of sequences de jeux and some audio samples, which were treated by filters and other process, keeping a sensible dialogue with the repetitive leitmotiv done by the electric guitar."

Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature