Huellas Entreveradas by Beatriz Ferreyra

“GRM veteran Beatriz Ferreyra is carrying Pierre Schaeffer’s utopian musique concrète into the future... Ferreyra manages to occupy an idiosyncratic position where she almost stands alone. Her pieces are possessed by an almost phantasmagoric intensity.” – The WIRE

One of the last active members of the original Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), Beatriz Ferreyra began her composing career accidentally, having been exposed to the musical methods of Pierre Schaeffer and the GRM shortly after moving from her native Argentina to study with Nadia Boulanger and Edgardo Cantón in Paris in the 1960s.

Ferreyra contributed to Pierre Schaeffer’s book 'Traité des Objets Musicaux' (1966), collaborated on the realisation of Schaeffer's 'Solfège de l’Objet Sonore' (1967), and went on to take composition lessons with Earl Brown and György Ligeti at Darmstadt.

As an independent composer, Ferreyra has received major international commissions for performance at festivals and concerts, and also composes for film and ballet. In 2014 she was elected as an Honorary Member of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music.

This album presents three unreleased contemporary works that reveal how Ferreyra continues to create compelling sounds from classic musique concrète techniques.

A member of the original Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Beatriz Ferreyra contributed to Pierre Schaeffer’s ‘Traité des Objets Musicaux’, and studied with Earl Brown and György Ligeti at Darmstadt.

As an independent composer, Ferreyra has received major international commissions and in 2014 was elected as an Honorary Member of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music.