Live at Centre Pompidou, Paris

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The electric guitar is the perfect bridge between electric and acoustic sonic worlds and between humans and electric technology. The guitar as icon of the bridge between musical worlds in the age of electricity was evoked in at least two other FCMM presentations this year. The Media Lounge performance by Rafael Toral featured the use of electric guitars to create sonic textures through the simple vibration of the strings, feedback with amplifiers, and the harmonics that can be produced through both of these methods. Letting the guitars speak for themselves, propped up against their amplifiers, Toral kept his hands on the effects box and mixer to gently coerce the ringing guitar tones into sound sculptures that meandered through various states of change over the course of the set. Toral directly addresses the place of the electric guitar in contemporary music, using it here as a bridge between traditional performance and electronic manipulation the way the same instrument once pushed the boundaries between the acoustic and electrified creation of sound.

Randolph Jordan, Montreal, Dec. 2001

The above is a review of an earlier performance of "Engine" in Montreal, having the present version been performed live at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 3 March 2002.

"Engine" is a piece for two guitars, one bass, twin modulated feedback circuits, motorized strings, analog modular system, routing audio mixer and several other devices. It's performed simultaneously on two channels.

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Rafael Toral Lisbon, Portugal

Rafael Toral, born in Lisbon, 1967 has been intrigued by the potential of sound and the functions of music since he was a teenager. As a producer, composer and performer, he has been deeply involved with Rock, Ambient, Contemporary, Electronic and Free Jazz music in different periods of his life. ... more

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