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The Musical Time project began in the
2001 as a proposal for creating a web site for the History of Music
class at the Milan Conservatory in Italy. The purpose was to create
a database or a kind of online library with the student’s analysis
of 20th century musical works, studied during each year monographic
course. The idea was to make these dissertations accessible for the
whole class, creating in a near future a big database with a lot of
material for the curious musical researcher and for future course students.
At first everybody agreed and was happy about it, but at the end nobody
did anything about it. Never the less, I began working in the first
Musical Time site (by the way, it was my idea, so I thought: if nobody
helps me, anyway I will go on with the project), collecting every interesting
analysis or article that I could find in the internet regarding contemporary
music, art and science.
Little by little the word spread out and I started to receive some feedback
from the visitors. Encouraged by this interest in MT, a year after I
decided to update the site and to let everybody in the contemporary
music community to know about the project (I thought: why not make a
difference; most of the people think only to themselves, so why not
make something useful for a whole musical community that is fragmented
around the world, instead of making something just for myself). To my
surprise I started to receive an overwhelming response from all around
the world.
Some colleagues of mine started then to get interested in the project,
but at the end (like in the beginning) everybody agreed and was happy
about it, but nobody did a real move (nobody wanted to risk: no money
no risk).
Never the less, today Musical Time has reached a lot of people and has
created a big contemporary music community that continues to grow, more
and more (at this point an interesting reflection pops up: there is
an interest for contemporary music all around the world). This has encouraged
me to continue with the project, and to extend it also to some other
projects of some serious colleagues that are aware that for creating
something big, first you have to take a risk.
Mauricio Vázquez
about
Mauricio Vázquez
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A composer, music teacher and sound
engineer, Mauricio Vázquez was born in Mexico City in 1971.
He began his musical studies at the age of 10.
In the summer of 1986 he attends the five week program course at
the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
From 1991 to 1998 he studies music composition at the faculty of
music of Mexico City’s National University (U.N.A.M.). At
the same time from 1994 to 1998, he studies privately with Javier
Torres Maldonado, José Suárez and Juan Trigos.
From 1998 he continuous his studies at the “Giuseppe Verdi”
conservatory in Milan, Italy, with Pippo Molino, Guido Guida, Alessandro
Melchiorre and Alessandro Solbiati, were in 2003 obtains his Degree
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He has attended courses by Franco Donatoni in Mexico
City (1995- 1996), Karlheinz Stockhausen, in Kürten, Germany
(2001-2002), Luca Francesconi at the musical research centre Agon,
in Milan (2002), seminars by Luciano Berio at the Accademia Chigiana,
in Siena, Italy (2001), Stephen McAdams at the Scuola Civica of
Milan (2002), Luis De Pablo (2002) and Salvatore Sciarrino (2003),
both at the Milan Conservatory.
From 2002 to 2003 he studies computer music and technology
with Alvise Vidolin, Michele Tadini and Pietro Polotti at the IRMus (Musical
Research Institute) in Milan. Also in 2002 he attends the computer music
course by Giuseppe Di Giugno, at Rome.
From 2004 to 2005 he teaches Musicianship, Harmony and Music Theory at Bormio’s Music School in Italy and collaborates
as a sound engineer with the Dynamis Ensemble.
On 2005 Mauricio Vazquez transfers to New York City to deepen his studies in audio engineering at the IAR (Institute of Audio Research).
Since 2000 he directs the project Musical Time.
Since 2004 he has worked as a sound engineer in: multi-media projects like the creation of the CD-Rom “20th century Italian
Music” for the Italian Association of Musicology, in classical music projects using live electronics or live digital signal processing, and on mobile recordings of classical music ensembles and orchestras.
audio samples
Below you will find some samples of my musical works:
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