Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection

Damián Keller (Argentina)


Damián Keller (born in Buenos Aires, 1966) have been developing an interdisciplinary research work on instrumental timbre and formal structures using tools extracted from psychology of perception, signal processing and musical analysis.

Among other pieces, Keller composed: "Canon" in 1987; "Targo" and "Desencuentros" in 1988; "Criasom" in 1989; "Exilios" in 1991"; "Incuasi-Promptum" in 1992; "Duo" in 1993; "Brasil(espacio)ia" in 1994; "La Patente" for CD, "Arrow of time" for trombone and electronics", and "To Lions Gate" for CD, all three in 1997; "Lo femenino en la pena" for CD in 1998; "touch'n'go" (or "toco y me voy") for eight-channel computer-generated tape and hypertext between 1998 and 1999; "Drop" for 8 channels tape, and "Waltz No. 6", installation, collaboration with A.L.F.S. Keller (video, visual design) and Thor Sunde (sculpture), both in 1999; "The Trade/Oro por baratijas" for CD, "Metrophonie" for 4 channels tape, and "La Conquista", installation, collaboration with A. Capasso (video, visual design), all three works in 2000; and "Instábilis", installation, collaboration with K. Lins (visual design), in 2001.

Some of Keller's published articles and reports are: "Theoretical outline of a hybrid musical system", with C. Silva, published in the Proceedings of the Second Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music held in Canela, Brazil, in 1995; "Anitoo: some analysis tools", published in the Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference held in Hong Kong, in 1996; "Ecologically-based granular synthesis", with B. Truax, published in the. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference held in Ann Arbor, United States, in 1998; "touch'n'go: Ecological Models in Composition", Master of Fine Arts Thesis, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, 1999; "Social and perceptual dynamics in ecologically-based composition", published in Proceedings of the VII Brazilian Symposium of Computer Music held in Curitiba, Brazil, in 2000; "Introduction to the ecological approach", included in the accompanying CD-ROM coming with R. Bianchini and A. Cipriani (editors) "Virtual Sound", Contempo Edizioni, Rome, Italy, 2000;."Social and perceptual processes in the installation The Trade", with A. Capasso, published in Organised Sound Vol. 5 No. 2, 2000; "Social and perceptual dynamics in ecologically-based composition", published in Electronic Musicological Review, Vol. 6, 2001; "Accumulation and interaction in an urban landscape: Urban Corridor", with A. Capasso, and S.R. Wilson, published in the Proceedings of the VIII Brazilian Symposium of Computer Music held in Fortaleza, Brazil, 2001; "Everyday sounds: synthesis parameters and perceptual correlates", with J. Berger, published in the Proceedings of the VIII Brazilian Symposium of Computer Music held in Fortaleza, Brazil, 2001.

In collaboration with C. Rolfe he also developed "MacPOD", a real-time granular synthesis software.

(text updated: October, 2003)

Resources available for this composer:
- List of compositions (5 compositions)

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