Julio d’Escriván
Welcome to my blog!! (of sorts)
I make (and have made since about 1983) electronic music, that means electronica, electroacoustic, acousmatic, tape music (which I have actually done on tape way back when) and anything that uses electronics. I also do straight acoustic orchestral and chamber stuff but not much recently, I don’t really find it as exciting as all the computer enabled stuff I do now. I have been involved with music for tv, film and radio in The Americas for a long time, yet since my move in 2003 to the UK, It’s like a second, double!, life I have as a composer. I like doing that because it makes me a better craftsman and I get to do lots of mixing and mastering which helps with my teaching. It also gives me a working musician’s view of academia, in which I am deeply involved nowadays. I have written a few papers and articles as well as chapters for books and co-edited a Cambridge Companion with my friend (English) Nick Collins. I write mostly on electronic music or sound art (or sonic art, or etc) in film, but I am also interested in musical semiotics and thus in Plunderphonics and how it may be used to link up everything we hear with everything else. Anyway, some serious googling can uncover more so I won’t dwell on this. I’m keeping some stuff here for my own records, including my music which can be accessed on request for interested performers by contacting me at this email: < julio [at] bitbongo.com > then I can let you into my private area. I intend to put some edited samples out here soon… I’m also hoping to post here more of the stuff I have been posting on my teaching blog: juliocmt.edublogs.org
