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Piano Improvisations for the Flamenco Show INSPIRO with:

Jessica Achten (dance)

Tijn van der Sander (guitar)

Claudio Spieler (percussion)

Theater de Schalm (Veldhoven), 12 May 2023

NephSye°

A site-specific electroacoustic, audiovisual and live ceramic performance, exploring the visual and sonic possibilities of the ceramic world.

_live ceramics ::Joris-Jan Bos

_live electroacoustics ::Carlos Ema

_live visuals::Guillermo Martín-Viana

3TREESceramics (Den Haag) 19th March 2023

Feedback research with Ceramic Bowls resonating within its own frequency and overtones (higher tones).

All the sound comes from the bowl itself.

The feedback circuit consists in a contact speaker and a contact microphone both attached to the bowl. The microphone catchs the vibration that the speaker creates on the bowl, wich is the vibration that the microphone is catching. This closed infinite cicle makes the bowl vibrate in its own frequency (+ 3 more overtones) as soon as the circuit is flowing.

Through a MIDI controller I can change parameters of an Equalizer acting between microphone and contact speaker and, like that, I can select the notes I want the bowl to sing, as well as its intensity and duration. The bowl become then an electroacustic musical instrument with its own unique voice (we could also think about the voice that the potter gave to the bowl... and the sonic relation between bowls from the same or different potters).

After analysing all the fundamental frequencies and overtones of each bowl I play short notes with those exact frequencies making the bowl start vibrating in its own frequencies (short notes sequencer programmed with Supercollider).

Similar approach of the bowls applied to a classical guitar. In this case is the wood body of the guitar what vibrates and generates the sound, the strings resonates by sympathy with this body vibration (tuned with the frequency of the body), and the chains creates rhythmical effects.  The guitar is vibrating by itself in its own frequency through a feedback circuit consisting in a contact mic + 1 or 2 contact speakers (a.k.a. transducers or shakers). I tuned the strings with the frequency of the body of the guitar and its overtones and I play the guitar just filtering the overtones controlling several Bandpass Filters from a musical perspective.

Nomads (Promotional Video for the performance on 7th July at the Summertime Festival'19 (Grote Markt, Den haag, Holland)
Music composition and Audio Recording: Carlos Ema & Arturo Ramón (recomposition from an excerpt of "Entre Estatuas")

Piano and Electronics: Carlos Ema

Guitar, Palmas, Djembe: Arturo Ramón

Voice: Erminia Fernández Córdoba

Original Footwork and concept of "Entre Estatuas": Carmen Buitenhuis & Carlos Ema

Video: Carlos Ema. Picture of Jessica Achten by Marjon Broeks

Thanks to Guillermo Martín (Almo :-)

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Enso (Choreography Cora Bos-Kroese, Music Composition and Recording Carlos Ema, Kobe/Japan, October 2017)

Original Music Composition based on Cello Sonata In B Flat, Op. 14/4, RV 45 - 1. Largo (Vivaldi)

Carlos Ema, composition, electronics (the Mangle by SoundGuru & PaulStrecht) piano, recording (Reaper), mixing and mastering

Picture by Wybe Hietbrink

Casiopea (Silvio Rodriguez)

From the house concert "Causas y Azares" Den Haag 2017

Irene Novoa / concept, voice and electronics

Carlos Ema / concept, piano and electronics

Joris Jan Bos / video

La Fábrica (Expeditie Flamenco, V Flamenco Biënnale, Nederland 2015)

Constelación Sonora (Cristina Hall, 2018)

1st prize Certamen Coreográfico de Tetuán, Madrid

Cristina Hall - Concept, Dance and Choreography

Maria Marin - Composition, Singing and Guitar
Carlos Ema - Composition and Live Electronics

Daniel N. Buxton - Audiovisuals and Photography

Jose Maria Tarriño - Customs

 

Electrónica Seguiriya (Carlos Ema, 2015)

Small impro with my PureData instrument Sonik_ET

Picture by Duarte Nobre

Chicago Baby 2021

Dance duet about the blurry line between flirting and harassment.

Concept and performance – Marie Khatib Shahidi, Youri Peters

Music: Carlos Ema

Master: Arturo Ramón.

December 2021.

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Short Summary of the Music

 

Morning Mourning (Choreography by Youri and Marie, Music by Carlos Ema 2016)

Carlos Ema, composition, electronics (PureData, the Mangle by SoundGuru) piano and recording (Reaper)

Emilio Parrilla (clarinet)

Arturo Ramón (mixing and mastering)

Picture Eddy Philipsen

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Excerpt of the music for the Contemporary Dance Piece SELF 2023

Coreographers/Dancers: Maria Zhukova & Liza Zhukova.

Composition, Guitar and Recording: Carlos Ema

Master: Arturo Ramón.

April 2023.

Gulliver's Reizen (Music Theatre, 2024)

Text and direction: Marije Gubbels
Acting and Singing: Iris Bakker, Pádraig Turley, Nick Renzo Garcia
Musical Direction, Composition, Piano, Samplers & Live Electronics: Carlos Ema
Composition & Ud: Nizar Rohana en Kamal Hors
Violin, Viola & Singing: Anne Bakker
Composition: Leah Uijterlinde
Dramaturgy: Manon Wittebol, Daniël van Klaveren
Direction assistance: Nienke Tjallingii
Costume design: Leoni Pirenne
Set and video design: Catharina Scholten
Lighting design: Gé Wegman

Sound design: Tom de Haas
Technicians: Johan de Koeijer, Bo van Vliet, Christian Toonk, Tom de Haas, Jeroen van Terheijden
Production: Betsy Postma
Education: Verle Wijering, Nynke Vermuë
Managing director: Lieke Bisseling, Nora Duijf
Publicity: Elselien Leemhuis, Ben Brouwer
Campaign image: © Benning & Gladkova
Consultancy: Daniël Cohen
Acquisition and tour planning: Bureau Berbee & Jansen & STIP Theaterproducties

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NEL BOSCO

Dance: Yusuke Tsutsumi

Music: Carlos Ema

Video: Alberto Peraldo Performance for BIARTECA - FESTIVAL DELLE ARTI MULTIDISCIPLINARI

Oretto e San Paolo Cervo (Biella) 27 august - 2 september 2017

 

Developed from the end fragment of the piece ENZO (Choreography by Cora Bos-Kroese, Kobe/Japan, October 2017)

 

Withering (Choreography Fernando Troya, Music Composition and Recording Carlos Ema, 2016)

2nd prize for best performance at the Solo-Tanz-Theatre Festival in Stuttgart,

3rd prize for choreography at the Warsaw Zawirowania Choreography Competition,

1st prize at ’10 Sentidos’ festival in Valencia, Spain

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Essential Rights (Choreography by Fernando Troya, Live Music by Carlos Ema, 2015)

BNG prize, Dans Click 20, 2018 Korzo Productions, Holland

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Uncertain Distance (Choreography by Fernando Troya, Music by Carlos Ema, 2016)

Made for Ballet Finland in 2016, which world premiered on October 21st, at the Finnish National Opera.
Carlos Ema, composition, electronics (PureData, the Mangle by SoundGuru, Argotlunar by Michael Ourednik) piano, guitars and sound recording (Reaper), Den Haag september-october 2016
Arturo Ramon (mixing and mastering)
Thanks to Aurimas Bavarskis (for borrowing his 12 steel-string guitar) and Arturo Ramón (for borrowing his nylon guitar)

Picture by Duarte Nobre

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The Animal that takes you (Choreography by Fernando Troya, Music by Carlos Ema, 2017)

Created for Budapest Dance Theatre and premiered at the National Theatre in Budapest on 27th February 2017.
Carlos Ema, composition, piano, framedrum (thanks to Sabine Ter Steeg) electronics and recording
Arturo Ramón (mixing and Mastering)
Picture by Rudolf Herbst

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Reminiscente (Choreography by Fernando Troya, Live Music by Carlos Ema, 2018 work in progress, DansMakers, Cloud Danslab / Holland, Turkey, Open Look Festival / St. Petersburg)

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Gardening Birds

(made for the festival and summer intensive, OpenFLR, Florence 2016)

Fernando Troya / choreography

Carlos Ema / music composition, piano, percussion, electronics and recording,

using also ‘Original Rainforest Sound Environments recorded and edited by composer Francisco López’

(www.franciscolopez.net)

Picture by Frédérique Van Dijk

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Soleá por Bulerias (Flamenco Dance Annemarie van Drecht, Voice Erminia Fernández Córdoba, Piano Carlos Ema, Percussion Claduio Spieler. Lleno de Flamenco, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 2014)

El Toro (Carlos Ema Piano & Composition, Greg Smith drums & composition, Manel Salas dance, Holland 2014)

Sounds of Silence 2014

(Silent Films / Live Music Festival,

de Nieuwe Regentes, Den Haag)

He who gets slapped (1924)

Yiannis Tsirikoglou, electronics & objects

Carlos Ema, piano