Elsa Justel

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Elsa Justel is an Argentine [1] composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music, and video-artist.

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Biography

Justel was born on February 19, 1944, in Mar del Plata, Argentina. [2] Justel begins her musical education in the conservatory of that city, where she had the degree of Professor of Music Education and Choral Conducting in 1969. During the 1970s and 1980s, she studied Composition in Buenos Aires with Virtú Maragno and Electroacoustic music with José Maranzano. At this period she traveled to Spain and Germany, where she studied with Carmelo Bernaola and Jan Vriend. She moved to live and work in France long-term in 1988. [3] She received a master degree in electroacoustic music from the University of Paris in 1991. [4] She later received a Doctorate in Esthetics, Sciences and Technologies of Arts at the Université de Paris VIII where she was supervised by Horacio Vaggione. [5]

She has also taught at the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, electroacoustic music at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and provided lectures at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [6] She moved to live and work in France long-term in 1988. [5] [3] Her Doctoral Thesis was entitled Les structures formelles dans la musique électroacoustique. In 2007 she created the Destellos Foundation in Mar del Plata [7] and has been the organizer of the Destellos Electroacoustic Music Composition Contest since 2008. [8] Over her career her music was performed in Hong Kong, Canada, Germany, France, Denmark, Spain, [3] and the UK. She has also completed commissioned works for the Government of France. [9]

Justel uses both real sounds and virtual elements in her compositions. [10] Her work has utilized a variety of sound creations, such as her work Fy Mor, which was created in 1991 using only the sounds of kitchen utensils. [4] Deniz Peters described Justel’s work as, "a sophisticated weaving of miniscule [sic] points of contact, in complex constellations of sonic imitations." [11]

Research

Justel’s research in musicology is oriented to the aspects of Formal structure and space in Electroacoustic music; and towards the field of perception and physical parameters on image an sound. [12] She also introduced new technical resources in her piece for harpsichord and electronics La ventana deshabitada. [13]

Recognition

Justel has been awarded the Prix Ars Electronica in Austria, [3] Prix biennal Presque rien in France, and the Prix Ton Bruynèl  [ nl ] in The Netherlands. [5] [14] She has been called “a pioneer” of electroacoustic music composition in Argentina. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ Makis Solomos (2007). Espaces composables essais sur la musique et la pensée musicale d'Horacio Vaggione. Harmattan. p. 15. ISBN   9782296028326.
  2. ↑ Gary Galván and Martha Furman Schleifer (2016). Latin American Classical Composers A Biographical Dictionary. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 322. ISBN   9780810888715.
  3. 1 2 3 4 School of Music Programs. University of Michigan. School of Music. 1998. p. 177.
  4. 1 2 David Cope (2001). New directions in music. Waveland Press. p. 58.
  5. 1 2 3 "Corwin Chair Series Lecture: Elsa Justel | Department of Music - UC Santa Barbara".
  6. ↑ "Corwin Chair Series Lecture: Elsa Justel | Department of Music - UC Santa Barbara". music.ucsb.edu.
  7. ↑ "JUSTEL Elsa (1944)". Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine. June 20, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Entrevista con Elsa Justel". November 1, 2019.
  9. ↑ "BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Cut and Splice 2017, Episode 2, Cut & Splice 2017: Elsa Justel's GWERZ in binaural sound". BBC.
  10. ↑ "CEC — eContact! 3.3 — Electroacoustic Music by Women Composers". CEC | Canadian Electroacoustic Community.
  11. ↑ Andreas Dorschel, Deniz Peters, Gerhard Eckel (2012). Bodily Expression in Electronic Music Perspectives on Reclaiming Performativity. Taylor & Francis. p. 54. ISBN   9781136504877.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ Justel, Elsa (May 18, 2010). "VIDEO MUSIQUE : ILLUSIONS PERCEPTIVES ET DISCOURS ESTHETIQUE" – via halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ↑ Emmerson, Simon (January 1, 2001). "The electroacoustic harpsichord". Contemporary Music Review. 20 (1): 35–58. doi:10.1080/07494460100640051. S2CID   191642473 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
  14. ↑ "prix_2005_en". www.tonbruynel.nl.
  15. ↑ ""El inventario sonoro instrumental me resultaba insuficiente" - Entrevista a Elsa Justel". July 27, 2020.
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