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Jorge Sad  was born in Buenos Aires in 1959. He obtained his degree in music composition from the “Facultad de Artes y Ciencias Musicales” of the Argentine Catholic University, in 1988.
        
         During 1988/89 he was awarded with scholarships from institutions of Argentina (Fundación Antorchas, Fondo Nacional de las Artes) to study electroacoustic music composition at LIPM ((Laboratorio de Investigación y Producción Musical) with composer Francisco Kröpfl

         Between 1992 and 1993 he made post-graduate studies of electroacoustic music and musical semiotics under the guidance of Marcelle Deschênes and Jean Jacques Nattiez respectively at the “Université de Montréal”(Canada).

During 1995 he took part, as an associated composer to L.I.P.M. (Laboratorio de Investigación y Producción Musical, Buenos Aires), of the “Visitors Exchange Program,” a research program granted by the Rockefeller Foundation, at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (Stanford University).

His work “Vox II” for computer-generated tape   had been awarded with the “Juan Carlos Paz " Prize  (1995) granted by the "Fondo Nacional de las Artes," (Argentina), and had been selected finalist at Bourges International Contest
(1999, France) and Luigi Russollo (1995, Italy).

“Aspavientos” has been awarded with the “Juan Carlos Paz " Prize  (1999, Argentina), has obtained a mention at Pierre Schaeffer International Contest 
(Italy) and has been selected finalist with other 5 works at the "Métamorphoses d'orphée" International contest (2000, Belgium).

He has awarded the first prize at the 3rd Forum and contest of electroacoustic music (Córdoba, Argentina, 2000) for his work “El alma mula “ (for cello and live electronics) and the first prize at the “Tribuna Nacional de compositores”
(Argentina, 2001) for his work “Los pájaros siempre estuvieron ahí…” for 13 instruments.

His piece “La vuelta hacia arriba del aire de la mañana” for flute and tape obtained a mention at the Second contest for Latin American music “XICOATL” ( Salzburg, Austria, 2005).

His chamber, electroacustic    and instrumental music including live electronics, have been played in concerts  (Digital Music under the Stars 1995 Stanford Univ., Concert de l’Atelier de Musique Contemporaine de l’Universite de Montreal, Teatro Colón Argentina) and festivals (International Symposium on Electronic Arts 95, Festival Musica Nova, Festival de Caracas, Festival Synthèse, World Music Days 97, Festival "L'espace du son”, Festival Boliviano de Música Contemporánea, Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2003 , Aspekte Festival 2005) in  Argentina, Austria , Belgium , Bolivia, Brazil , Canada,  France, Korea, Spain, Venezuela, Uruguay and USA.

He has received comissions from Teatro San Martín (Argentina), Studio Musiques & Recherches (Belgium), Fundación Música y Tecnología (Argentina), Ensamble Pierrot Lunaire (Austria). Centro Cultural Rojas (Argentina).

As conductor  of Gest (u) alt   Ensamble, a group of 5 musicians devoted to improvisation and interaction with live electronics he is working in a live version of “Pour en finir avec le jugèment de Dieu ”,  multimedia piece including edited and  real time processed video images, based on the later radiophonic work of Antonin Artaud.

He composed the music for the interactive multimedia spectacle  “ZOOM IN LOOK OUT” of choreographer Margarita Bali, premiered on May 2003 at Winsconsin University at Stevens Point and on December 2004 at Teatro Alvear of Buenos Aires.

He is currently the director of the “Instituto de Investigación en Sonido y Música por Medios Digitales" of   the Universidad de Morón, and professor of the Atelier of Electroacoustic Music of the “Conservatorio de Morón”.

Discography:

Sad, J. (1995). Monocordios (1986) para piano. Panorama de la Música Argentina. Buenos Aires, Fondo Nacional de las Artes/IRCO 317. Compositores nacidos entre 1959-1964.
        
Sad, J. (2000). Aspavientos. Métamorphoses 2000. M. e. Recherches. Bruselas, Musiques et Recherches.
        
Sad, J. (2000). La ida hacia abajo de la tierra de la tarde. Foro de Comunicaciones Electrónicas. U. P. Fabra. Barcelona.
        

Sad, J. (2000). Músicas de una étnia imaginaria. C. d. C. Sonora. Buenos Aires, CCS.

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Works

  • The birds were always there.... 1999 (Mp3 5,5 Mb) 
    for 13 instruments. Used for the first time in the CETC of the Theater Colon the 27/6/99 
    Conducted for Alejo Pérez Pouilleux 

  • Averock (Mp3 1,9 Mb)

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