Violoncellista, performer and sound designer. Ricardo Armas (Buenos Aires, 1957), with a strictly classical formation, add to the polysemic language, items of deconstruction, the “new phonic improvisation” and musical theater.
He made his studies in Argentine, Spain and Brazil. He went out of the musical provincial conservatory "J. J. Castro" (Buenos Aires) as music professor, specialized in violoncello.
Since 1988 he is member of the Bahía Blanca Symphonic Orchestra.
At his concerts, he interacts with invited artists and with other aesthetics communication vehicles as performance, theater, dance, video, image and sound manipulation in real time, software, visual, smelling and hipermedia installations. Image, sound and action, live together in a dialectical interaction space.
He composed electroacustic and musical theater pieces, which were shown for the first time in Argentine, Brazil, Cuba, Spain and France.

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Recordings:

• Seis Improvisaciones (Grupo de Acción Musical, Cirse, Buenos Aires, 1987)
• Bizet / Kavalevsky / Mendelssohn (Orquesta Sinfónica Provincial de Bahía Blanca)
  

Premieres:

• "Quasar", "Quasar 1", "Espacios Topológicos" para violoncello de Gabriel Di Cicco.
• "Madres en el desierto" para violoncello y computadora (Texture) y "Música desilusionada" para violoncello, saxo, contrabajo y síntesis en tiempo real con tres computadoras utilizando smsRT (spectral modeling synthesis) de Luis Rojas.

"In Ricardo de Armas are combined the musician with classical formation, which has allowed him to correctly aprouch to Bach and Webern (as he has demonstrated) and the risky artist, inseparable from his aesthetic time, which has pushed him to sistematically explor the 'other violoncello', to the musical theater, with his fusion of installations, body and words participation, to the space musical improvisation, to the electroacoustic music, to the cybernetic and to all that means the incorporation of technological elements and the read over of preexistent texts, always in union with a sensibility exquisitly put to serve to the comunicability of the artistic message." (Gabriel Di Cicco, composer)

011220 (excerpt)

Sol (excerpt)