Javier Alvarez's “Papalotl” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 1988, category Digital Musics & Sound Art. Javier Alvarez has 2 more works in this atlas.
“Papalotl” is concerned, as in other works of mine, with rhythm, but rhythm understood not as a mere calculation of duratons but rather as movement in time very much as in dance. Specifically, “Papalotl” is built with nearly 200 short rhythmic patterns which are combined to form longer strands of music, these in turn…
About Javier Alvarez
Born 1956 in Mexico City. 1968–73 Private studies, guitar, flute and dance. In 1981 he came to the UK as a British Council Scholar to the Royal College of Music.
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