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.
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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.