Wergo: WER2061-5

López, J: Mountain War Project

Dream structures for video design with concrete and instrumental surround sound

For many years the phenomena of nature or 'wilderness' has determined and influenced the compositional work of the Cuban- American-Austrian composer Jorge E. López. For 15 years he lived in the Hohe Tauern mountains in Southern Austria and the near wilderness of the US-American mountains.The main themes he addresses are the awe-inspiring aspects of nature and the driving force behind human activity. López continuously employs dream sequences and nightmarish imagery. This recent work, for video projection and pre-recorded orchestra using 8-channel spatialisation, is no exception; here, López examines the Alpine front during the First World War, in and around the Dolomites.The central repertoire of sounds and images for this multi-media work comes from natural and orchestral sounds, mountain imagery and historical film material.