Tara Dragos
(1976)
Genre: Classical Music
Biography
* 1976.
Composer, double bass player and electronic musician, Dragos Tara spends his time between composition and improvisation.
His musical and extra-musical collaborations are motivated by an interest in the game theory, the diversion of social rituals and the extension of instrument and body by technology.
Co-founder and member of Association Rue du Nord .
Co-founder and member of Compagnie du Phonoscope.
Member of Compagnie CH.AU
Studies: Composition: Michael Jarell, Eric Gaudibert, Emmanuel Nunes, Nicolas Bolens; Electroacoustic: Luis Naon, Rainer Boesch; Sound technology and informatics: Eric Daubresse, Emile Elberger, Thierry Simonot, Jean Keraudran; Orchestration: Xavier Dayer; Analysis: Philippe Albéra; Doublebass: Michel Veillon
Composer, double bass player and electronic musician, Dragos Tara spends his time between composition and improvisation.
His musical and extra-musical collaborations are motivated by an interest in the game theory, the diversion of social rituals and the extension of instrument and body by technology.
Co-founder and member of Association Rue du Nord .
Co-founder and member of Compagnie du Phonoscope.
Member of Compagnie CH.AU
Studies: Composition: Michael Jarell, Eric Gaudibert, Emmanuel Nunes, Nicolas Bolens; Electroacoustic: Luis Naon, Rainer Boesch; Sound technology and informatics: Eric Daubresse, Emile Elberger, Thierry Simonot, Jean Keraudran; Orchestration: Xavier Dayer; Analysis: Philippe Albéra; Doublebass: Michel Veillon
Work list
Horde (2011)
Instrumentation: for ensemble, voices and electronics
Texts: Alain Damasio
Influenced by Alain Damasio's science-fiction novel "La Horde du Contrevent" (2004) that was extremely successful in France, Tara has composed a kind of musical battle for survival, in which the different groups (voices, instruments, electronics) fight to be heard and articulate themselves. Groups are formed, or extreme registers visited in order to be better understood. In this social game, a continuum that existed at the outset is increasingly torn apart and transformed into individual, tension-filled, musical and societal events.
Duration: 9' 00"
Manuscript
Pixel (2011)
Instrumentation: for solo double bass enhanced with a pickup and live electronics
Manuscript
Diskographie
Grammont Sélection 5 (Musiques Suisses Nr. MGB CTS-M 137, 2012)
Brotbeck, Conradin
Kernjak, Anton
Näf, Fritz
Henneberger, Jürg
Scheidegger, Mats
Leimgruber, Urs
Blum, Dominik
Basler Madrigalisten
Cattrall
Roth, Michel: Räuber-Fragmente (2011)
Keller, Max E.: Die Schwestern (2011/2012)
Henking, Christian: Keine Zeit ist zeitig mit der Sehnsucht Zeit (2011)
Glaus, Daniel: Passacailles fugitives (2011)
Weissberg, Daniel: Hausmusik für H.G. (2011)
Profos, Felix: Real Fire (2011)
Holliger, Heinz: Zwei Stücke nach Mani Matter (2011)
Schneider, Urs Peter: Dieselben (2009-2010)
Tara, Dragos: Horde (2011)
Fachard, Antoine: L'instant c'est déjà la solitude... (2011)
Satapati, Rajiv: Im Keim der Liebe erschlagen (2011)
Interpreters:
Gubler, RicoBrotbeck, Conradin
Kernjak, Anton
Näf, Fritz
Henneberger, Jürg
Scheidegger, Mats
Leimgruber, Urs
Blum, Dominik
Basler Madrigalisten
Cattrall
Works:
Wüthrich, Hans: Peripherie und Mitte (2009-2011)Roth, Michel: Räuber-Fragmente (2011)
Keller, Max E.: Die Schwestern (2011/2012)
Henking, Christian: Keine Zeit ist zeitig mit der Sehnsucht Zeit (2011)
Glaus, Daniel: Passacailles fugitives (2011)
Weissberg, Daniel: Hausmusik für H.G. (2011)
Profos, Felix: Real Fire (2011)
Holliger, Heinz: Zwei Stücke nach Mani Matter (2011)
Schneider, Urs Peter: Dieselben (2009-2010)
Tara, Dragos: Horde (2011)
Fachard, Antoine: L'instant c'est déjà la solitude... (2011)
Satapati, Rajiv: Im Keim der Liebe erschlagen (2011)
Info: www.fonoteca.ch
Bibliography
Kenneweg, Friederike: Grammont Sélection 5, in: Dissonanz 122 (2013), S. 76-77 [Internet]
Brotbeck, Roman: Grammont Sélection 5. Uraufführungen aus dem Jahr 2011, in: Kuratierung und Kommentierung der CD, Musiques Suisses, Zürich 2012