Detail for Listening
Based in Santiago, Danilo Dawson, a composer, pianist, and producer from Antofagasta in northern Chile, invites you into a quiet, rainy-day listening space through his own electroacoustic works, where ancestral Latin American instruments meet contemporary sound processing.
Streamed on 28.10.2026
Archive available from 22.11.2026
Interview
What is the concept behind this Showcase?
Created for rainy weather and a cozy space, with openness to hearing traditional sounds and beyond, because in the last track I'm exploring the sound of ancestral instruments processed with contemporary tools. This mix was made with Hi-Fi equipment and a silent space in mind, with special care given to dynamics and stereo/binaural details.
What are the highlights of this Showcase?
- 1.Un atardecer— Danilo DawsonUn atardecer is a must if you like impressionism. It's a piece for flute, piano, and real-time electronic processing based on a text: "Un atardecer" is a scene of reflection. Reflection is the second fundamental form of this journey, the first being the substance that exists in the breath, its rhythm, suspension, and intensity... In this narrative, thoughts crystallize as sonic ideas... some stay and others leave, the constant being the meditative state. When a thought is insistent enough and imbued with vital force, we leave one world to appear in another. The sunset is us crossing the veil of one reality to pass into another.
- 2.Planos— Danilo DawsonPlanos is a work in five movements. This version was created live at an international music composition festival and processed in real time; each movement dissolves into the next.
- 3.Yakupa, Wayrapa, Llamiypa Rimaynin— Danilo DawsonIn Yakupa, Wayrapa, Llamiypa Rimaynin, you'll actually hear a recording of a walk in Santiago, Chile, transformed into impulses and orchestrated with ancestral instruments (expanded with MPE-controlled electroacoustic processing) and binaural spatialization.
On the genres and styles featured in this Showcase
This particular mix focuses on my own electroacoustic compositions: from text-based creation that mixes impressionist harmony with electroacoustic processing, and image-inspired composition (Planos), to soundfield impulses orchestrated with ancestral Latin American instruments processed with MPE and Ambisonics.
Play List
- 1.Un atardecerDanilo Dawson
- 2.ArquetiposDanilo Dawson
- 3.Acción en reposoDanilo Dawson
- 4.EcosDanilo Dawson
- 5.CiclosDanilo Dawson
- 6.Nuevo ComienzoDanilo Dawson
- 7.Yakupa, Wayrapa, Llamiypa RimayninDanilo Dawson