Creation : 03 June 1983, Strasbourg (M.A.L./T.J.P.), Festival Musica, France
Composition : 1982
Comissioner : Percussions de Strasbourg
Duration : 17′
Intensidad y Altura is a work that, in addition to percussion instruments, requires an electro-acoustic device that plays a recorded tape, synchronised with the percussionists’ playing. It is a brilliant, captivating piece whose design – partly repetitive – is organised around a chord of four sound elements that is reminiscent of the traditional seventh chord. The instrumental sounds extend or enrich the colour of the electronic sound, whose pitch is identical to the instrumental sound. The clarity of the score is easily perceptible, and the sound density is all the more present as the recorded tape is diffused in space.