Beatriz Ferreyra - La riviere des oiseaux (2003)

Beatriz Ferreyra was born in Cordoba, Argentina, and studied piano with Celia Bronstein in Buenos Aires. She continued her study of music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and Edgardo Canton, Earle Brown and Gyorgy Ligeti in Germany.
In 1963 she took a position in the research department of the Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise (ORTF), working with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) directed by Pierre Schaeffer. She assisted with Henri Chiarucci's and Guy Reibel's Rapport entre la hauteur et la fondamentale d'un son musical, published in 1966 in Revue Internationale d'Audiologie and Pierre Schaeffer's Solfage de l'Objet Sonore. During this time she also lectured at the Conservatoire National Superierur de Musique de Paris. She worked with Bernard Baschet and his Structures Sonores in 1970, and served residencies in electronic music with Dartmouth College in 1976 and in 1998


Rio de los pájaros (La rivière des oiseaux / River of the birds)) composed 1998-99. Commissioned by Jean-Paul Ruiz.
Rio de los pájaros escondidos (La rivière des oiseaux cachés / River of the hidden birds) composed 1999. Commissioned by Ina-GRM.
Rio de los pájaros azules (La rivière des oiseaux bleus / River of the blue birds) composed 1999. Commissioned by Bregman music studio (Dartmouth College, Vermont, USA).
Médisances (Malicious talk) composed 1968. Commissioned by GRM
L'orvietan composed 1970. Commissioned by GRM
Vivencias (Experiences) composed 2001. Commissioned by Musiques & recherches (Ohain, Belgium).
Cantos de antes (Chants d'avant / Songs of former times) composed 2002 from texts written by Dada poets. Commissioned by Association pour la recherche et l'expérimentation musicale (APREM), Nevers, France.



Tracks
1-3 Ríos del sueno (1998-2000) 33m31s
1 Río de los pájaros 12m06s
2 Río de los pájaros escondidos 11m06s
3 Río de los pájaros azules 10m19s

4 Médisances (1968) 6m49s
5 L’orviétan (1970) 11m34s
6 Vivencias (2001) 11m20s
7 Cantos de antes (2002) 10m00s