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Sarnath (2010) This piece was created as part of the project The Buddha’s Footprint using field recordings from Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India. The field recordings, made by Francis Booth, include bells, drums and chants from the places where the Buddha lived and taught. The composition explores the use of textures and rhythmic passages to create different types of sonic environments linked to intense and subtle states of mind experienced through meditation practice.
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Pacífico (2009-10) This piece was developed as a collaboration with the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita who provided me with a poem that he regularly reads in poetry recitals. I then re-arranged parts of the text and asked the Chilean singer Cecilia García-Gracia to record it using different types of intonations and reading styles. The piece aims to capture the musicality of the Spanish spoken in Chile by concentrating on particular aspects of the text like the use of open vowels and specific consonant letters. The piece is structured based on rhythmic and phonetic aspects of the poem that are translated into percussive and tonal textures using a dreamlike background of natural and synthesised sea sounds. This work is dedicated to the composer Roger Marsh. |
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Ciguri (2008) This composition was developed from part of the music of the dance theatre piece To have done with the judgment of Artaud by Base Theatre for the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The composition is inspired in the writings of Antonin Artaud among the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico and is structured as different states of intensity stemming from the ritual of the peyote. The piece explores the inharmonic timbral character of different types of bell sounds blended and contrasted in an expanding and contracting time framework that varies from rhythms to textures of irregular sounds. listen to an MP3 version of this piece
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Showtime! (2007) This piece, inspired in and composed using excerpts from the book Three trapped tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante , is an attempt to develop the idea of an imaginary show in the Tropicana cabaret with a bilingual master of ceremonies presenting a rather unusual act. The sections in the piece are related to different rhythms of salsa, mambo, jazz, and chachachá, which are developed using mostly three instruments (trumpet, double-bass and trombone) as a basis for timbral and rhythmic developments. This piece was composed in the Electronic studios of the Music Department of the University of York with the help of the members of the University Jazz Orchestra. |
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Clangor (2006)
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glob (2006)
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Plastiches (2005) 5.1 surround
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Zapping Zappa (2004) |
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Found objects (2003) listen to an MP3 version of this piece
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| Constellations (2003) This piece is a study of the timbre of different brass instruments and the blending of musical sounds. The musical structure is constructed based on 4 small timbre constellations of brass instruments: (1) trumpet, tenor and alto sax, (2) French horn, (3) bass and tenor trombone, and (4) piccolo trumpet and tuba. The original sounds of the instruments have been combined with the use of the digital convolution in order to preserve their dynamic articulation and transform their sound colour in different combinations. The timbre has been used in the piece as and agent of integration and structural continuum. |
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