DejaVu88~ for piano and live electronics.

This work was composed thanks to a Ciber@rt award, consisting of a residency prize at LEA labs in Spain.
Taking advantage of early experiences in the use of live electronics in pieces such as 'Strings too sort to tie', 'Dsp-bop' and 'Trombonsis', I decide to approach the composition of this piece in a completely different manner.

In DejaVu88~ the performer has absolute control over the electronic part and there is no need for a technician / performer apart from issues of general mixing.

The pianist experiences cycles of stimulation reaction over sonorities and gestures of electronic. This approach lead me irremediably to question and re-think of the role of the live electronics in the compositional environment .
The nature of the timbral explorations of the piano are mainly focused on four areas of research; the integration between acoustic piano sounds and its real-time sonic manipulation, degrees of combination of these two elements, the juxtaposition of parts (non processed versus processed) and the acceptance-integration of both identities (real and transformed sound).

It has three continuous movements.

DejaVu88 has been performed in four different international music festivals in only ten months by the pianists Simon Mawhinney and very sortly by Yudekis Mayola García at the ICMC.