Rita Torres

University of Aveiro | UA · INET-md – Ethnomusicology Institute: Center for Studies in Music and Dance

Self-studies on creative processes in musical composition are scarce. And so are studies on processes of female composers. Driven by these problems, I decided to investigate my own creative processes. I started with all those that occurred up to now, focusing the study on the inspirational sources of the processes. I sought to know not only what th...

The technique of guitar multiphonics is an unconventional performing technique that gives rise to sounds of unusual colours, in which it is easier to perceive multiple pitches. In most compositions that employ the technique, this is done conventionally – there is hardly any variation in the beginning and/or end of the sounds. The piece presented in...

The author recounts how she came to carry out artistic research on guitar multiphonics when composing a piece for solo guitar. Furthermore, she explains how the investigation gave rise to a new form of usage of that unconventional technique.

http://ritatorres.eu/05-MuSA-Chapter5-Torres-Lopes.pdf

The full text is available from http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/21230 and an Adenda et corrigenda from http://www.ritatorres.eu/research-publications.html

Most (classical) guitar music comes from guitarist-composers. Yet according to guitarists who collaborate with composers, color research on this instrument is better achieved by those who do not play the instrument. Thus the guitar lags behind many instruments in regard to color research. Various reasons can be faulted for the tendency of non-guita...

Multiphonics on the classical guitar is currently being researched by the present authors in regard to the reproducibility of the sounds originated and the suitability of the technique as a compositional element in writing for amplified guitar. Our hypotheses are to be tested, for which criteria for the data collection and treatment were establishe...