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    The document summarizes information about two contemporary guitar pieces: Undulations by Yori-aki Matsudaira and Tres Momentos Microtonales by Agustin Castilla-Avila. It provides background on the composers and describes the musical concepts behind the pieces. For Undulations, it explains how the piece has one unified process but also six different processes within that create sounds changing shape like waves. For Tres Momentos Microtonales, it shares that Castilla-Avila created his own microtonal system on standard guitar to explore microtonal music and used influences from Spanish and Arabic folk music.

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    The document summarizes information about two contemporary guitar pieces: Undulations by Yori-aki Matsudaira and Tres Momentos Microtonales by Agustin Castilla-Avila. It provides background on the composers and describes the musical concepts behind the pieces. For Undulations, it explains how the piece has one unified process but also six different processes within that create sounds changing shape like waves. For Tres Momentos Microtonales, it shares that Castilla-Avila created his own microtonal system on standard guitar to explore microtonal music and used influences from Spanish and Arabic folk music.

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    The document summarizes information about two contemporary guitar pieces: Undulations by Yori-aki Matsudaira and Tres Momentos Microtonales by Agustin Castilla-Avila. It provides background on the composers and describes the musical concepts behind the pieces. For Undulations, it explains how the piece has one unified process but also six different processes within that create sounds changing shape like waves. For Tres Momentos Microtonales, it shares that Castilla-Avila created his own microtonal system on standard guitar to explore microtonal music and used influences from Spanish and Arabic folk music.

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    Joseph Perez Mirandilla Presskit

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    Joseph Mirandilla
    The document summarizes information about two contemporary guitar pieces: Undulations by Yori-aki Matsudaira and Tres Momentos Microtonales by Agustin Castilla-Avila. It provides background on the composers and describes the musical concepts behind the pieces. For Undulations, it explains how the piece has one unified process but also six different processes within that create sounds changing shape like waves. For Tres Momentos Microtonales, it shares that Castilla-Avila created his own microtonal system on standard guitar to explore microtonal music and used influences from Spanish and Arabic folk music.

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    josephperezmirandilla

    A Filipino guitarist, received his first training at the University


    of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music under the guidance
    of Ruben F. Reyes. In 2005, Joseph went to Japan to pursue
    his post-graduate studies focusing on contemporary guitar
    music with Norio Sato, a world renowned leader of the
    contemporary music group Ensemble Nomad, at the
    Elisabeth University of Music. Currently, he is a
    professor for guitar performance at the Sichuan
    Conservatory of Music in China.
    Joseph has performed in numerous concerts in
    Japan, Germany, China, Singapore, Thailand,
    Vietnam, and the Philippines, where he continues
    to inspire many by teaching in masterclasses
    and workshops.
    [email protected]
    http://www.josephperezmirandilla.tk

    About the music

    About the music


    Undulations (Yori-aki Matsudaira)
    Waves grow, burst and change shape.
    Millions of droplets become one with the wave.
    And then each droplet changes shape again, energizing a new wave.
    This process is repeated, again and again.
    We hear something similar in the piece Undulations for solo guitar.
    As a whole, the piece has one unified process; at the
    same time, having six different processes, and within
    those sixty more processes exists; Sounds changing shape, like waves.
    -Yori-aki Matsudaira
    Yori-aki Matsudaira was born in Tokyo on March 1931. He studied biology at Tokyo Metropolitan
    University and was self-taught in both piano and composition. Throughout the span of his
    musical career he has employed various compositional techniques serialism, indeterminacy,
    combines and new modal music.

    Tres Momentos Microtonales (Agustin Castilla-Avila)


    Agustin Castilla-Avila is one of Spains prolific composers of his generation. He first began his career in
    music as a guitarist while composing on the side and eventually focusing more in composing later on.
    His works to date comprises of works for orchestra, solo instruments, chamber music and theatre music.
    Many years ago, during my guitar studies, I fell in love with microtonal music on the guitar. I wanted
    to play microtones but I could not afford either to get one of the existing microtonal guitars or to
    learn a special technique to play them. In addition, the repertoire for those instruments was very limited.
    So, mainly because of practical reasons, I created my own system on the ordinary guitar using six G
    strings tuned at sixths of a tone. By doing so, I dont only solve the problem of getting a new instrument or
    learning a special technique for it but also create a beautiful and very particular resonance having the
    different microtones on open strings.
    As a composer, I like very much to use this instrument as a bridge between folk and contemporary music.
    While in Tres Momentos Microtonales, one could hear strong influences between Southern Spain and Arabic
    Music; Sakura (dedicated to Joseph Mirandilla) is an arrangement of the Japanese Folksong.
    -Agustin Castilla-Avila

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