Graciela Castillo facts for kids
Graciela Castillo (born in 1940) is a talented composer from Argentina. She creates a special kind of music called electroacoustic music. This means she uses electronic sounds and recordings to make her musical pieces.
Life and Career
Graciela Castillo was born in Córdoba, a city in Argentina. She studied music in her hometown at the Conservatorio de Musica Juan Sebastian Bach and the National University of Córdoba. Her teachers were famous composers like César Franchisena and Francisco Kröpfl. She also learned from violinist Zlatko Topolsky and composer Nicolás Alfredo Alessio.
In the mid-1960s, Graciela was part of a group of composers who started the Experimental Music Center (Centro de Música Experimental). This center was at the National University of Córdoba. She created many musical pieces there. Later, she became a professor at the National University, teaching how to compose music and analyze it.
Works
Graciela Castillo has created many interesting musical works. Here are some of them:
- Concreción 65: This was a "concrete music" piece made in 1965. Concrete music uses recorded sounds from the real world, like everyday noises, to create a musical composition.
- Y así era: A piece for tape recorder, made in 1982.
- Diálogos: This piece was for two voices, typewriters, radios, and percussion instruments.
- Homenaje a Eliot: An "open work" from 1965. This means the performers have some freedom to interpret it. It used voices, concrete sounds, and actions like a play.
- Colores y masas: Made in 1966, this was concrete music inspired by paintings from José De Monte.
- Estudio sobre mi voz: A tape piece from 1967, focusing on her own voice.
- Estudio sobre mi voz II: Another tape piece from 1967, also using her voice.
- Tres estudios concretos: Three concrete music studies for tape, from 1967.
- El Pozo: The first version of this piece from 1968 used voices, wind instruments, typewriters, and percussion. It was even published in a book by famous composer John Cage. A second version for instruments and tape came out around 1969.
- Memorias: A series of three electroacoustic pieces for tape from 1991. They were called "La casa grande," "Memorias," and "Memorias II."
- Tierra: A tape piece from 1994.
- Iris en los espejos: A tape piece from 1996.
- Iris en los espejos II: Also from 1996, this version was for piano, keyboards, and sounds that were changed electronically.
- De objetos y desvíos: A tape piece created between 1998 and 1999.
- Los 40 pianos de San Francisco: From 1999, this piece used a "prepared piano" (a piano where objects are placed on or between the strings to change its sound) and processed sounds.
- Alma mía: A tape piece from 2000.
- Ofrenda: For flute and processed sounds, from 2001.
- Ofrenda II: Another piece for flute and processed sounds, also from 2001.
- Retorno al fuego: A tape piece from 2002.
- La vuelta (Tango): A tape piece from 2002, inspired by the tango dance.
