audio excerpt [1'15''] Trio Icarus [Italy], Centro Nacional de las Artes
[México 1997]
[8] for tenor recorder, cl Bb, e-guitar, pno, perc, trbn, viola, db, electronics and video
commission: Strichting Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten. Project by DAM-Music group
duration: 9'20''
published: LondonHALL Ed. [Austria]
ENSEMBLE WORKS
instrumental, electroacoustic, live-electronic music
In this piece I try to focus on the harmonic spectrum of the saxophone, supported by the timbric gestures of the piano and the percussion. I’m also interested in developing a spatialization of the micro-activity in the electronic layer, which is a synthesis of the instrumental sounds.
Ovid's “Metamorphoses”. "Mare et terra, et caelum, quod involvit cetera, fuerant prius una facies Naturae in mundo universo, quam vocaverunt Chaos"
The first part of this work was composed in the Niguarda Hospital, in Milan. It has been finished in Sienna, Italy.
BROKEN MIRRORS for string quartet and electronics [2008]
FORMANTES for trio [2008]
ANTECEDENTE X for trio and electronics [2006]
FLEBOS for ensemble [2000]
Flebo
audio excerpt [1'17''] Divertimento Ensemble, Dir. Pablo Varela, Conservatorio G. Verdi, Milan, Italy 2000
no audio
RAYA for ensemble [2001]
OVID for duo [2003]
DU VIDE for quintet [2008]
Ensemble Alternance [France]
audio excerpt 1 [1'53’’], audio excerpt 2 [0'49’’] Ensemble Alternance[Paris], Salle Cortot, Paris, 2008
A progressif change of the sonorous figures is the idea that guided the composition of this piece. I've had in mind the image of the emptiness, where an object ejected in the space maintains its force.
Broken Mirrors [intallation by Enrique Fuentes]
This new piece will be premiered in July in Darmstadt by the Arditti Quartet.
Ensamble 3 [Mexico]
no audio
This new piece will be premiered in Mexico, next may.
Integrales Ensemble
audio excerpt [2'18’’] Ensemble Integrales [Hamburg], Osterfestival Tirol, Austria 2007
ORIENTIERUNG for trio [2002]
Garth Knox
audio excerpt [37''] Pascal Gallois (bsn, Ensemble Intercontemporain), Dimitri Vassilakis (pno, Ensemble Intercontemporain), Garth Knox (vla), Le Pré Saint-Gervais [France 2002]
In this pieces many layers of sound are "oriented" in different ways, I tried to explore the timbric possibilities of this multiplicity.
Proteus, the aged master of metamorphosis [detail]
audio excerpt [37''] Thierry Mecier (guit), Isabel Soccoja (mezz), Instituto de México, Paris 2001
Carlos Fuentes
audio excerpt [1'00''] Percussion Art Quartet, Burkhard Jäckle (fl), Carlos Fuentes (recorded voice), Hannah Crepaz (narrator), Dir. Pablo Varela, Kurhaus Hall, Hall in Tirol, Austria, 2001
The voice of the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes reads several passages of “La raya del olvido” (The Oblivion Line), chapter IV of his book “La frontera de cristal” (The Crystal Frontier).
[4] for string quartet and electronics
commission: Work nominated to the Staubach Prize, Darmstadt. Arditti Quartet, Experimentalstudio-Freiburg
[3] for fl, bass cl, pno
commission: Ensamble 3
THEMATA for ensemble, electronics and video [2003]
Themata [video]
video excerpt [37’’] Pohua producciones [Mexico], Maarten Altena Ensemble [Holland], premiered in Korzo Theater, Den Haag [Holland 2003]
The sonorous matter and the “real” matter formed by sand, fire, metal and stones are mixed inside of this visual and acoustic work.
TRIO 1 for trio [1996]
Icarus Ensemble
Trio 1 is one of my first pieces, it has been composed during the Franco Donatoni's curse in México, in 1996.
HYMNE AN LESBIERINNEN for quintet [2002]
Gerhard Rühm
audio excerpt [50''] Présences Contemporaines Ensemble, Amphithéâtre de la Verrière, Cité du Livre, Aix en Provence, 2002
The texts in this piece are based in the poem HYMNE AN LESBIERINNEN, written by Gerhard Rühm [Vienna 1930], experimental poet, playwright and prose writer... "at at dat dat d d d u o ai i it it ..."
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cd] México Electroacústico [1960-2007]
Electroacoustic music by mexican composers [3 Cds] ● Manuel Rocha, producer ● Radar Festival, editor [2008] IRD 002● Works of: Pablo Gav, Juan Sebastian Lach, Rogelio Sosa, Rodrigo Sigal, Sergio Luque, Arturo Fuentes, among others.
cd] AQUA
Music for flute and electronics ● Alejandro Escuer [flute] ● Quindecim Recordings QP091 ● Works of: Escuer, Veldhuis, Galindo, Rocha I, Scarani, Fuentes, Waters
cd] ESO
3er. fest. internacional de arte sonoro ● Ex Teresa Arte Actual ● Conaculta [Méx. 2001] ● Works of: Null, Eibenschutz, Dj Scanner, Niblock, Fuentes, González Lang, Rocha I, Vaggione.
cd] Electronic music vol. IV
Winners of the Música Viva Competition 2007-09 ● Miso Music, Portugal ● [coming in 2010]
www.misomusic.com/ingl/publ/misorecor.html
cd] Mozart kaputt 5x5 zero = [250]
Electroacoustic music ● LondonHALL Editions [Austria, 2007] ● Works of: Unterpertiner, K. Lang, Hadwiger, K. Klement, R. Heinz, Fuentes
dvd] Alternative Sessions
The Mexican connection ● Six Works for music and image ● Dam-Music and Maartena Altena Ensemble ● [Mexico-Holland, 2003] ● Works of: Fuentes, Waller, Solis, Giraldo, Castaños, Sigal
cd] Cuicameh
Works for string quartet, wind quintet, guitar and voice ● Fonca [Mex. 1997] ● Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Quinteto de Alientos de la Ciudad de México, G. Salazar, E. Granados ● Works of: Uribe, Syman, Fuentes, Toussaint
"EMPTINESS" [eng.]
[5] for string trio, bass cl, pno
commission: Studienzentr für NM
duration: 7'
published: LondonHALL Ed. [Austria]
[3] for tenor sax, pno, perc, and electronics
commission: Studienzentrum für Neue Musik
duration: 7'09''
published: LondonHALL Ed. [Austria]
[11] for fl, cl-I, cl-II, bsn, pno, perc, vl-I, vl-II, vla, cell, db
commission: Divertimento Ensemble
duration: 9'
published: LondonHALL Ed. [Austria]
[3] for bsn, vla, pno
commission: Asociation 93 [France]
duration: 9'
published: LondonHALL Ed. [Austria]
[2] for guitar and mezzo-soprano
commission: Instituto de México, Paris
duration: 8'
published: LondonHALL Ed. [Austria]
[6] for percussion quartet, flute, narrator and recorded voice
commission: Osterfestival Tirol
duration: 24'09''
published: LondonHALL Ed. [Austria]
[3] for fl, cl, pno
commission: Festival Franco Donatoni, Mexico 1996
duration: 5'
published: LondonHALL Ed. [Austria]
[5] for tenor sax, bass cl, harp, accordeon, soprano
commission: Présences Contemporaines Ensemble
duration: 8'15''
published: LondonHALL Ed. [Austria]
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