Guzmán, Edgar - Apnea (New Version)

Work supported by the Queretaro State Institute of Culture and Arts' 2004 Young Creators Grant

Apnea

Edgar Guzmn

amplified guitar and stereo tape

(2005)

PERFORMANCE NOTES Dedicated to Pablo Gmez

The piece is written in proportional notation; when a regular rhythmic figure appears (quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc.) they shall be performed at approximately Acciaccaturas will always be performed as fast as possible

rub rub all the strings with the palm of the right hand from the guitars bridge into the fretboard as many times as required. In order to help to the forte dynamic to be heard as such, the percussive sound of the right hand when placed over the bridge to start the rubbing might be exaggerated.

example:

bridge fretboard

bridge fretboard bridge

scratch the specified string(s) with the nails or a plectrum Percussive sounds

pizz alla Bartok, a cross as a notehead indicates that the string must be damped with the left hand over the fretboard in order to avoid the production of any pitched sound

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round strum as faster as possible always; a cross over the noteheads means the strings must be dampened with left hand to avoid the production of pitched sound round strum once as faster as possible : p a m i

round strum twice as faster as posible : p a m i p a m i continued round strum on all the six strings as long as the lines extension demands

p = pulgar/thumb = meique/little finger a = anular/ring finger m = medio/middle finger i = indice/index

latin american percussion, damping the strings with the left hand to avoid any pitched sound

except for those cases in which the rib of the guitar is ask for to be the area of strike (with the nails), hit the frontal part of the guitars body using the fingertips or the palm of the hand looking for relatively high and low percussive sounds. (Sometimes, the bridge is specified to be the strike area.) this symbol appears at 324 and 346, in both cases meaning to strike the specified string with the face of the nail, the result being different and not specific pitches given the striking location over the strings length, either closer to the bridge or the fretboard











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1:22

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1:46

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4:47.50

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6:36 7:05

( )VERY AGRESSIVE IMPROVISATION

Gradually detune the three lower strings to the point where they no longerproduce any pitched sound but only the complex percussive one of thestrings striking the fretboard

very slow and rhythmically irregular 'arpeggio'

7:45

laissez 'vibrer'

7:47 7:557:50

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