BIO

composer

Arturo Fuentes (born Mexico City, 1975, currently living in Austria). He studied with Franco Donatoni in Milan and with Horacio Vaggione in Paris, under whom he began composing with electronic media during his doctoral studies. He has undertaken projects at IRCAM (Paris), at the Experimentalstudio (Freiburg) and at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM, Karlsruhe), creating instrumental works which combine live electronics with literary, visual and scenic elements.

A number of his recent works were nominated for the Darmstadt Institute's Staubach Prize, the Música Viva Prize of Portugal, the European Competition for Live Electronic Music Projects and the Prix Ars Electronica (Linz). He is currently developing new musical theatre projects that include the interaction of dance with electronic media, one of which is Line of oblivion (2010), produced by Belgian dance company JoJi inc, with the recorded voice of Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes.

In his recent works sonic space is in constant ferment, generating what he himself calls “timbral rain”, where by harmonic figures dissolve into each other: Space factory III (ensemble recherche 2011), Liquid Crystals (Quatuor Diotima 2011), Superfluidity II (Phace ensemble 2011), Broken Mirrors (Arditti Quartet 2009), Rincontri (Divertimento ensemble 2011) and Carlota (MDR choir, Leipzig 2012).

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"Fuentes reveals a relevant and powerful music [...] The sound space is occupied by a constant agitation"

Les Affiches, Gilles Mathivet

"Fuentes' carefully organized chaos kaleidoscope"

Positionen, Gisela Nauck

"shadowy sound events by listening carefully […] finely engraved original sonorities"

Tiroler Tageszeitung, Markus Hauser

“Fuentes' music is powerful and reinforce the feeling of being lost”

Tiroler Tageszeitung, Alexandra Plank

“explore the outer edges of dynamics, colour, texture and virtuosity”

musicweb-international, Byzantion

“a detailed writing is successfully addressing issues such as a research of an aerial sonority”

Diverdi, Maria Santacecila

“a sculptural design of the overall sound, the constant changing of foreground and background”

Klassik.com, Stefan Drees

“disparate layers of sound”

nmz, Hans-Dieter Grünefeld