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Atlantic Vortex cycle (2 new pieces)
I've been recording two new pieces for flute and violin from my "Atlantic Vortex" cycle, in which I explore the improvisation with instruments that I don't play professionally - I'm a guitarrist. The idea is to have a finished piece in a single recording take (usually between 3 and 5 minutes long). Then I write the score, taken exactly from this recording. The idea behind this creative process is to leave the "inner drive" free of will, but limited by a context (a technique, a rhythm, an effect) — I should say that I rehearse a lot and explore the instrument before the recording session. This approach to my composition allows me to find new dramaturgies in my music, that otherwise would have remained hidden, and also create new sounds and effects that I will later integrate into new works. An intuition exercise. 
​news date: 28 Nov. 2020
Carlota's Bedroom (2021)
The opera-monodrama premiered by Sarah María Sun and the Klangforum Wien at the Klangspuren Festival (2018), had its Mexican premiere in 2019. Now we expect a new staging by Arturo Fuentes in Italy, in the first half of 2021. More information very soon.

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La habitación de Carlota (Mexico)
​Carlotas Zimmer (Austria) 
​news date: 1 Nov. 2020
Cegueira (2021)
The new trailer directed by Arturo Fuentes for the show Cegueira (Blindness) has just come out. Based on the homonymous book by the Portuguese writer José Saramago (Nobel Prize winner), this show will be presented in Portugal by the Drumming Percussion Group, directed by Miquel Bernat. The staging of this music theatre is in the hands of Arturo Fuentes: a psychological drama in a pandemic time with white blindness, like a sea of milk, where the eyes of everybody seems healthy but only a woman can see (the main role in the show). Saramago expresses his critic point of view about humankind into a pandemic catastrophe: “I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”   Visit the YouTube link
​news date: 5 Nov. 2020
Ader (2021)
The last work for solo accordion that Arturo Fuentes wrote was in 2011. This new piece is dedicated to the great accordionist Krassimir Sterev (Klangforum Wien). Fuentes is inspired by the infinite networks of veins, as if they were ramifications of sounds. The piece has had the support of the Austrian government for its composition.

Here you can listen to GETMOVE (2011), performed by Luka Juhart:
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​news date: 7 Nov. 2020
Carrillo y la micro belleza (2021)
Julián Carrillo is a Mexican composer who died in 1965 at the age of 90, he was one of the pioneers of microtonalism at the beginning of the 20th century. His life is full of fantasy and mysticism. He was born in Ahualulco, a town in the middle of the desert, in the state of San Luis Potosí. However, he created a revolutionary theory and commissioned the construction of 16 microtonal pianos in Germany, which are a cornerstone of his research. Arturo Fuentes composes a work for these pianos, which are in the Carrillo Museum, and directs a documentary on the life of this composer. This project is supported by the UNAM and the Secretary of Culture of SLP and will have its premiere in July 2021.
​news date: 10 Nov. 2020
Carrillo - Retorno a Ahualulco. Documental (2021)
The teaser for this documentary has just been released. The desert spaces form the scenery of the life of this Mexican composer, full of contradictions and owner of unlimited creativity that led him to create his own microtonal theory at the beginning of the 20th century. A life that moves between politics, contacts with intellectuals and artists, and his town located in the desert, which he visited every now and then. An unknown character in Mexican musical culture, which the public will discover in this production.
​news date: 14 Nov. 2020
Work in progress
Poeta en Nueva York (song cycle for soprano and piano)
The Spanish poet Federico García Lorca was 32 years old when he traveled to New York (1929/1930), an almost initiatory journey where he would rediscover himself. The economic depression of 1929 definitely affected his poetic making, as well as the bigger picture of New York, the skyscrapers, the slums, and the Big Apple movement. Lorca was assassinated during the Franco regime, he was only 38 years old (1936). "Poet in New York" was published in Mexico and the United States in 1940. 

Arturo Fuentes has collaborated with the soprano Sarah Maria Sun and the pianist Alberto Rosado in the creation of several projects. On this occasion, Fuentes brings these two unique musicians together and dedicates the song cycle "Poet in New York" to them. The piece "Vuelta de paseo" (Walk back), which is the first poem in Federico García Lorca's book, has already been composed. The full hour-long cycle is scheduled for the end of 2021.
​news date: 25 Nov. 2020
About
In the course of these two decades Arturo Fuentes (Austrian citizen, born in México in 1975) has created a very diverse catalogue of over a hundred works. In the last years he started to create the scenography and to direct his own music theatre projects, like the opera-monodrama Carlota (2018) dedicated to Sarah Maria Sun and the Klangforum Wien. His catalogue consists of chamber, vocal and orchestral music and mixed works with electronics, as well as electroacoustic works, staged concerts, dance performances and short films that he has directed and produced.  
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3 December 2020
(World premiere). 
​Madrid, Spain. Elisa Urresterazu (saxophone), Pilar Rius Fortea (e-guitar). UNED, Biblioteca del Centro Asociado de Madrid-Escuelas Pías. Ruido de levante (for tenor sax and e-guitar).
Agenda 2020
​​​24 January 2020​ 
(Belgian premiere). Bruxelles, Belgium. Hotel de Ville, Salle Gothique, 19:00. Erämaa Trio. Zeitlos (bass cl, vla, pno)  ​​

​​12 February 2020
(World premiere). Mexico City. Sala de la OFUNAM. Alberto Rosado, piano. Disparate Femenino (for piano y electr.)
 
​​12 March 2020
(World premiere) COVID cancelled. Madrid, España. Noches de la UNED. Pilar Rius (guit.), Elisa Urrestarazu (sax.). Ruido de levante (for guit. and sax.)
 
14 March 2020 
(Belgian premiere) COVID cancelled. Brussels, Belgium. Museums Nicht Fever. Erämaa Trio: Cedric de Bruycker, Akiko Okawa. Modular (for bass cl. and vl.)
 
March 2020
COVID cancelled. Mexico. TV UNAM, opera broadcasting. CARLOTA  (with Sarah Maria Sun). Recorded live, 19th, 20th October 2019. Festival Vértice.
 
22 March 2020
COVID cancelled. Guanajuato, Mexico. Festival Callejón del Ruido. Universidad de Guanajuato. Taller Sonoro (Sevilla). Formantes (for flute, bass clarinet and piano)
 
2 May 2020
COVID cancelled. Modena, Italy. Amici della musica di Modena. Emanuele Torquati (piano). Francesco Dillon (cello). Questo Mare (piano and cello)
 
19 May 2020 
(World premiere). COVID cancelled. Mexico City. Facultad de Música de la UNAM. Aldo Aranda (percussion). Kübel (for solo percussion and electr.)
 
28 June 2020
Italy, Alto Adige. Radio broadcast - RAI link INFINITO - concerto doppio per violoncello e pianoforte. Francesco Dillon and Emanuele Torquati. John Axelrod, conductor. Haydn Orchestra, Bolzano
 
3-4 July 2020
(Spanish premiere). COVID cancelled. Madrid, Spain. Clásicos en verano, XXXII Festival de música. María Abad (piano). Disparate Femenino (piano and soundtrack)
 
15 July 2020
(World premiere). COVID cancelled, Trento, Italy. Concerto for saxophone and orchestra. Henrique Portovedo (sax). 

17 October 2020
(World premiere). Innsbruck, Austria. ORF Festival Zeitimpuls link. Windkraft ensemble link. Abend um Abend (hrn, tr, bsn, perc)

3 December 2020
(World premiere). Madrid, Spain. Elisa Urresterazu (saxophone), Pilar Rius Fortea (e-guitar). UNED, Biblioteca del Centro Asociado de Madrid-Escuelas Pías. Viento de levante (for tenor sax and e-guitar).

5 December 2020
(World premiere). COVID cancelled. Mexico City. Miquel Bernat (percussion), CEPROMUSICensamble. Zape (percussion and ensemble)

10 December 2020
(World premiere). COVID cancelled. Porto. Miquel Bernat (percussion), Drumming percussion group. Huove um Ritmo no meu sono​
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