Horacio Vaggione has been living and teaching in France for more than 25 years. He has taken part in the GRM and the IRCAM before founding the CICM (Data-processing Center of Musical Creation) at the university of Paris VIII. La Maquina de Cantar ("The Singing Machine") certainly remains the best known piece of the composer, since few others are available on CD. Composed in 1971 and 1978 (respectively the two titles of face A and B from the original vinyl), this music is an agglomerate of quite compulsive and repetitive sound layers, with an exclusively synthetic texture, quite under the influence of its time and its technology (amateurs of Moog organs will love it). One obviously thinks of Terry Riley or Steve Reich, but the hypnotic buzz prevails and goes on towards an uncanny and almost entomologist exploration of musical creation.
La Maquina de Cantar
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