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Solo
1993
Fixed Media Audio
Trombone
- Program Notes
- During my days as a youngster I did a lot of travelling in my native Mexico by "hitchhiking" rides at motorway entrances. On a certain occasion, late at night, I was offered a ride on a large timber-carring truck across the mountain ridge which lies between the states of Puebla and Veracruz. Shortly after I settled down on my seat, and having exhausted the expected small talk, the truck driver immersed in great detail into his lifelong predilection for Mambo music ( which we heard incessantly for the next 5 hours on the radio). It had been a long day and I was very tired, so I spent the strangest of nights trying not to fall asleep, yet waking up from wild dreams invaded by the sounds of engine acceleration and the air brakes of the enormous machine, the blaring radio and the over enthusiastic conversation of the driver... It is on the basis of that trip that I drew the psychological frame for Mambo Vinko. The piece is thus a deconstruction of this experience, organised as personal "road movie", complete with quotes from the different sonic characters who inhabited my dreams, including the unmistakable grunts of the 50's great king of mambo music, Dámaso Perez Prado. The work was composed for Vinko Globokar on a commission from the Groupe de Récherches Musicales (INA-GRM) in Paris in 1993. Vinko gave the première in Radio France on May 1993 to a fully awake audience.
- Record Label
- Casete, 2014
- Performer Credits
- Vinko Globokar
- Publisher
- Black Dog Editions