Daniel Perez Hajdu (Cu)

1 November 2019 City Sonic

Memerupa

Memerupa is the central piece of a cycle of three, a work in progress devoted to the relationship between body and mind. Here this relationship is utopian and poetic, it is the will to touch the skin of the listener with music and sound… which is of course a view of the mind. The term Memerupa could then be a kind of magical incantation, like a mantra allowing access to that perception. The material and writing are mainly corpuscular, like pores, down or cells. In particular, certain cells responsible for the perception of touch and which are precisely called corpuscles: those of Merkel, those of Meissner, those of Ruffini, and those of Pacini.

With the help of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Music office).

Biography

Daniel Perez Hajdu, born in Havana, first turned to the work of image and more particularly to video. This is how he naturally approached sound, as the second half of the audio-visual couple. His attraction to musical experiments of all kinds led him to turn entirely to sound, thus favoring the suggestion of sound rather than the literalness of the image. He then accomplished a Master’s degree in Acousmatic Composition at the Royal Conservatory of Mons, where he became a teacher. His compositions cover the fields of concert, radio, dance, theater and film. His music has been performed in various countries in Europe, America and Asia, among others on the occasion of sound creation festivals.

In 2017 he won the André Souris Award at the Forum des Compositeurs.