Julio Estrada

Julio Estrada Velasco was born in Mexico City, April 10, 1943. His family was exiled from Spain in 1941. He is a composer, theoretician, historian, pedagogue, and interpreter.

Life

He began his musical studies in Mexico from 1953-65, where he studied composition with Julián Orbón. In Paris from 1965-69 he studied with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen and attended courses and lectures of Xenakis. In Germany he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1968 and with György Ligeti in 1972 He completed a Ph.D in Musicology at Strasbourg University from 1990-1994.

Since 1974 he became researcher in music at the Instituto de Estéticas, [ [http://www.esteticas.unam.mx/ IIE/UNAM] ] where he was appointed as the Chair of a project on Mexican Music History and as the head of "Música, Sistema Interactivo de Investigación y Composición", a musical system designed by himself. [ [http://www.prodigyweb.net.mx/ejulio/musiic%20descripcion%20english.html MúSIIC] ] He is he first music scholar to be honored as member of the Science Academy of Mexico [ [http://www.amc.unam.mx/ Science Academy of Mexico] ] , and by the Mexican Education Ministry as National Researcher since 1984. He created a Composition Seminar at UNAM, where he has been teaching compositional theory and philosophy of composition. He has written about a hundred articles based on his research. Some have been translated into English, French, German, Italian and Japanese. He is the General Editor of La Música de México [Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, IIE / UNAM, México 1984, ca. 2000 p.] He wrote with Jorge Gil [ [http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Musica_Y_Teoria_De_Grupos_Finitos-ISBN_9688370053.html?isrc=b-search Música y Teoría de Grupos Finitos, 3 Variables Booleanas, with an English abstract] ] (IIE UNAM, Mexico 1984). He has postulated a General Theory of Intervallic Classes, applicable to macro and microintervallic scales of duration and of pitch. In the field of the continuum Estrada has developed new methods of multidimensional graphic description of several parameters of sound or rhythm. His research on the continuum field will be published in 1998 in France : Ouvrir l’horizon du son : le continuum.

He has been a visiting professor at Stanford, California, San Diego, New Mexico, Musikwissenschaft Institut, Rostock and Darmstadt.

Work

Music

His music is associated to compositional research on diverse domaines

scales:
*Suite, piano 1960;

improvisational processes:
*Persona, vocal trio 1969

compositional mechanos:
*Memorias for a Keyboard 1971

finite Group Algebra:
*Melódica, 1973
*Canto mnémico 1973-83;

networks:
*Canto tejido, piano 1974
*Canto alterno, cello 1978
*Ensemble'yuunohui, strings 1983-90

intervallic identities:
*Canto naciente, brass octet 1975-78

continuum macro-timbre and sound spacialisation:
*eolo'oolin, six percussionists 1981-90

new instrumental developments:
*Canto oculto, violin 1977
*the four yuunohui

continuum:
*eua'on

multiparametric poliphony:
*the yuunohui 1983-90

topological continuum variations:
*ishini’ioni, string quartet 1984-90

continuum-discontinuum modulation:
*yuunohui’tlapoa, harpsichord 1994-97

Prehispanic ceremonial conception of music:
*opera Pedro Páramo : "Doloritas" 1992-2006

cores

His works are mainly published by Editions Salabert, France.

Articles

Books

"Musica Y Teoria De Grupos Finitos: 3 Variables Booleanas Con Un Resumen Al Inglés", Estrada, Julio, Jorge Gil. UNAM, 1st edition , (1984). (Format: Book (Illustrated), 221 pages, ISBN-10: 9688370053,ISBN-13: 9789688370056)

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* [http://julioestrada.net/?page_id=210 d1 Theory] , Teoría d1

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The techniques and theories I have developed are based on mathematics and acoustics ; the more neutral they remain, the better they serve the description of the imaginary : it is my ear---there everything is allowed---that gives birth to my music, which becomes the accurate, almost phonographic representation, of every detail coming from my inner hearing experiences.

Awards

* [http://serpiente.dgsca.unam.mx/rectoria/htm/premuniv.html Premio Universidad Nacional] (2000)
* Ordre des Arts et des Lettres awarded by the [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/artsetlettres/ French Ministry of Culture] , (1981, 1986)

Notes

External links

* [http://www.julioestrada.net/ Julio Estrada]
* [http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=16702&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Estrada:UNESCO Culture Sector]
* [http://julioestrada.net/wp-content/Julio%2520Estrada01.jpg]