%0 Journal Article
%T Discontinuum-continuum: the theory of composition by Julio Estrada
%A Dominguez Salas, Manuel Antonio
%J Kwartalnik Młodych Muzykologów UJ
%V English Issues
%R 10.4467/23537094KMMUJ.17.006.7835
%N Issue 32 (1/2017)
%P 109-123
%K Julio Estrada, discontinuum-continuum, macro-timbre, contemporary Mexican music
%@ 2956-4107
%D 2017
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/kmmuj/artykul/discontinuum-continuum-the-theory-of-composition-by-julio-estrada
%X 
	The Julio Estrada’s output is still the unexplored area, what creates the opportunity to study the phenomenon called discontinuum-continuum. During the last 36 years of the creative activity, Estrada has developed several aspects of the macro timbre that integrate several compounds of a composition. In his research, Estrada confronts two different situations in the compositional process: continuous transformation of the sound and chronographical method, using strictly defined recording process in order to receive three-dimensional movements of the sound in the topological order. As a result of existing these two situations, a musical work is impossible to be defined by one technique or musical style. Examination of the theory of composition called discontinuum-continuum allows one to understand a new methodology of musical creation that involves scientific research of the physical phenomenon of sound and introspection of the imagination of the sound.