Daniel Somaroo (1995) is a Venezuelan bass player, composer, producer, sound-designer as well as a recording and mixing engineer. Born into a musical family the passion for sound came at very early stage. After finishing high school the search higher knowledge required him to move to Basel, Switzerland to continue his musical path under the tutelage of Banz Oester, Larry Grenadier, Jeff Ballard, Guillermo Klein, Aydin Esen, among others for his Bachelors degree. When finished, Daniel took part into the Producing/Performance Masters which he finished with excellent remarks. Currently he is taking part in the ZHdK Pedagogic Studies Masters Program but as well he keeps being active in the music scene by playing with different bands and projects as well as collaborating with many artist either by composing or performing to sound engineering and visual projections. The many varieties of Daniel’s work make him a very versatile asset inside or outside any musical project.
No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 4.
For this piece we used the Monopoly rules as a score. Each of us had a copy of this same text (see appendix) with the task of using it as a kind of score or lyrics for improvisation. Inspired by sound poetry and John Cage's piece "Story"19, we improvised using these rules as lyrics but also fragmenting them, using sound as material. As a result, we managed to generate a kind of collage of words and sounds in real time that highlighted the critique of a world in which the only goal is to buy property and be the richest.
We tried to explore the possibilities of balloons as instruments, objects that offer different pitches, durations of the notes, dynamics, and sounds. The piece is based, not only on making sounds with unexpected materials, but on the fragility of the balloons, playing with them knowing that they can break. Through this action we wanted to represent our concern about the actual global ecologic crisis. Will we continue to play at capitalism until we have nothing more to play with, until the world is completely destroyed?
In this piece we use free improvisation mixed with composition, sound poetry and the aesthetics of the fragment, to criticize what Han calls psychopolitics and relate it to the current pandemic. The music is organized around fragments of Google's privacy policies and a microcomposition that is played by different instruments at different moments of the improvisation. The "conflict" is present in the way we blindly trust the Internet without reflecting on our practices and the agreements we make with corporations at every click.
No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 2.
No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 1.