"Disparates for guitar" is a cycle of 22 short guitar pieces of high technical level. The Disparates or Proverbios was the fourth and final series produced by the painter Francisco de Goya (Spain 1746- 1828). They were published after his death and have always been surrounded by a certain air of mystery.

WITT develops a flute-percussion model in

which the “parasite noise” produced  by the instrument’s keys is part of the essential

sonority of the piece.

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instrumental, electroacoustic, live-electronic music

SOLO WORKS

LAWINE                                  for viola and electronics [2008]

TALWEG                                 for violin and electronics [2008]

WITT                                      for flute [2001]

Witt [CD]

audio excerpt [51''] Alejandro Escuer [flute], Arte Sonoro Festival, San Ildefonso Hall, Mexico 2001

no audio

DISPARATE DE MIEDO II         for guitar [2003]

DISPARATE FEMININO I          for guitar [2003]

TORO MARIPOSA                   for recorder (sopranino) and electronics [2008]

Butterfly bull [eng.]

work in progress: Anna Margules [recorder], LIEM [Laboratorio de Informática y Electrónica Musical, Madrid]

Toro Mariposa

no audio

TORO MARIPOSA is a new piece for recorder (sopranino) and electornics, where lightness and heaviness are superposed. "Toro Mariposa" is a drawing by Francisco de Goya, exposed in El Prado museum.

work in progress: Barbara Lüneburg [viola], STEIM [studio for electro-instrumental music, Amsterdam]

Barbara Lüneburg [viola]

LAWINE means a big avalanche of snow. This piece parts from small sound-actions (microarticulations) arriving to a complex sound morphology.

work in progress: Annelie Gahl [violin]

Annelie Gahl [violin]

no audio

The sounds perceived in TALWEG are made of a light substance, like many fine streams of microforms, centered in one fluid line.

OBJET - OBJECT                     for theorbe, electroacoustic and video [2003]

commission: IRCAM, Cursus

duration: 12'

published: LondonHALL Ed. [Austria]

Objet - Object

video excerpt [34''] Caroline Delume [theorbe], Jean Lochard [musical assistant], IRCAM, Espace de projection, Paris, 2003

Commonly related to early music, OBJET-OBJECT situates the theorbo in a more complex sonorous context. By an electroacoustic treatment, the original sound of this instrument is defragmented to obtain an unfold of its timbric possibilities.

Disparate Feminino

audio excerpt [52''] Caroline Delume [guitar], Instituto Cervantes, Paris 2003

Fearful folly II [eng.]

duration: 3'

published: LondonHALL Ed. [Austria]

Disparate de Miedo

no audio

"Disparates for guitar" is a cycle of 22 short guitar pieces of high technical level. The Disparates or Proverbios was the fourth and final series produced by the painter Francisco de Goya (Spain 1746- 1828). They were published after his death and have always been surrounded by a certain air of mystery.

DISPARATE RIDÍCULO III        for guitar [2005]

Ridiculous folly III [eng.]

duration: 1'

published: LondonHALL Ed. [Austria]

Disparate Ridículo

no audio

"Disparates for guitar" is a cycle of 22 short guitar pieces of high technical level. The Disparates or Proverbios was the fourth and final series produced by the painter Francisco de Goya (Spain 1746- 1828). They were published after his death and have always been surrounded by a certain air of mystery.

INTERLUDI CONTINUI             for guitar [2005]

Interludi Continui [Subini Zerboni Edition]

audio excerpt [37''] Interludi Continui, studio recording, México, 2000

INTERLUDI CONTINUI is a group of six pieces. Every piece is part of another, we can imagine this work as a sound cloning process in six parts.

PRIMER INTERLUDIO              for guitar [2001]

commission: Ed. Mexicanas de Música

duration: 8'

published: Ediciones Mexicanas de Música

Primer Interludio [Ed. Mexicanas de Música]

no audio

PRIMER INTERLUDIO is the continuation of Interludi Continui [six pices for guitar]. In this piece, the guitar explores a wider timbric resources.

RONDA                                  for guitar [1998]

Gonzalo Salazar [guitar]

sound file [51''] Gonzalo Salazar [guitar], Festival "Progetto Musica 98" [Roma, Italy]

RONDA is a fragmented music where musical figures appears and disappears forming cycles, rounds: "rondas".

DISCOGRAPHY


cd] México Electroacústico [1960-2007]




Electroacoustic music by mexican composers [3 Cds] Manuel Rocha, producer Radar Festival, editor [2008] IRD 002Works of: Pablo Gav, Juan Sebastian Lach, Rogelio Sosa, Rodrigo Sigal, Sergio Luque, Arturo Fuentes among others.

http://www.radar.org.mx



cd] AQUA




Music for flute and electronics Alejandro Escuer [flute] Quindecim Recordings QP091 Works of: Escuer, Veldhuis, Galindo, Rocha I, Scarani, Fuentes, Waters

www.quindecim.com.mx



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.

www.cdemusic.org



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

 


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60 children suffered horrifying abuses in the town of Sierra Negra (Black Mountain Range) in the state of Puebla, Mexico, in 1997.

SIERRA NEGRA                      for electroacoustic [2008]

Enrique Fuentes, painting [detail]

audio excerpt [2'12'']

Through brief and swift percussive sounds, this piece aims to portray a dense and articulated sense of movement in layers of multiple motion. An old organ keyboard presumably played by Mozart in 1772 was used to produce some of the sounds that compose it.

FOSIL KV                                for electroacoustic [2006]

audio excerpt [2'07''] stereo version

acousmatic work [4 channels]

commision: musik+ and Studienzentrum für Neue Musik [Austria]

duration: 9'15''

published: CD: Electronic music vol. IV, Miso Music, Portugal [2010]. Score: LondonHALL Ed.

acousmatic work [2 channels]

commision: Osterfestival Tirol [Austria]

duration: 6'06''

premiered at Osterfestival Tirol, Austria, 2008

commission: Alejandro Escuer [CD production]

duration: 8'

published: Score: LondonHALL Ed., CD: "Aqua", Quindecim Recordings QP091

Feminine folly I [eng.]

duration: 3'

published: LondonHALL Ed. [Austria]

duration: 7' 30''

published: Edizioni Subini Zerboni [Italy]

duration: 8' 30''

published: Lagonegro Editions [Italy]

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