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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Lucero
Michael Rosas Cobian
We are in a harsh environment yet a very beautiful one. It is cold yet sunny, the air is pure but thin. Our only resources are the ones of our imagination and of our spirit. The Lucero guides us. We endure.
In this work I felt I needed to express the harshness and timelessness of the landscape and people, the apparent desolation and the hope. 1 felt I couldn't just write a piece, I needed many. I wanted 'voices', ancient voices, images of thoughts, recollections, feelings and distant awareness all in a kaleidoscopic collage of tightly woven aural images, harsh, uncompromising, rasping sounds and the beauty of the Charango leading us through it all.
‘Lucero’ was commissioned by the Sonic Arts Network on behalf of Augustin Fernandez for the ‘Electrifying Exotica’ concert series at the Purcell Room, South Bank Centre.
‘Lucero’ was composed and realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studio, City University London, 1992.
In this work I felt I needed to express the harshness and timelessness of the landscape and people, the apparent desolation and the hope. 1 felt I couldn't just write a piece, I needed many. I wanted 'voices', ancient voices, images of thoughts, recollections, feelings and distant awareness all in a kaleidoscopic collage of tightly woven aural images, harsh, uncompromising, rasping sounds and the beauty of the Charango leading us through it all.
‘Lucero’ was commissioned by the Sonic Arts Network on behalf of Augustin Fernandez for the ‘Electrifying Exotica’ concert series at the Purcell Room, South Bank Centre.
‘Lucero’ was composed and realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studio, City University London, 1992.
Michael Rosas-Cobian (RA), born 1953, lives and composes in London. Besides orchestral, chamber and electroacoustic music he has worked in the fields of experimental film-making, dance, theater and multimedia projects. He studied at various universities in North and South America, then worked as an arranger and Studio musician at CBS Argentina.